WALES.- Wales has many fascinating stories to tell through the work of the artists and collectors from, or inspired by, Wales. A number of these stories are told in the new £6.5m National Museum of Art, which opened to the public on Saturday 9 July 2011. Did you know that Welsh landscape painter Thomas Jones’s major historical work The Bard is based on Thomas Gray’s tale of Edward I’s massacre of the Welsh bards? Wales has Gwendoline and Margaret Davies to thank for eight Monet masterpieces featured in the national collection and Richard Long, one of the best-known British artists, spent two days collecting slate from Llechwedd Quarry for his brand new installation Blaenau Ffestiniog Circle (2011). For the first time, the full range of the nation’s world-class art collection – a mix of fine and applied art, from the historic to the contemporary – is displayed under one roof at National Museum Cardiff,