In a £30 million building designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea opened its doors to the public in October 2005. Celebrating Wales and its industrial heritage, the museum uses more than 100 audio-visual exhibits, 36 state-of-the-art interactive displays, and hundreds of artefacts to tell the story of Welsh industrialization through the eyes and words of the people who were there.

Fifteen themed display areas allow visitors to the Museum to explore the impact of the Industrial Revolution on people’s lives, then and now.

Working in close partnership with exhibition designers Land Design, multimedia and interactive agency Newangle took the role of lead creative and project management company for all the audiovisual productions at the Museum. It headed up a team of companies working on the exhibits, including ISO and Studiosimple.

This video is a documentary about the activities of the Cardiff Coal Exchange at the height of the coal trade in 1911-13.  It takes as its theme a typical day’s trading, and allows the visitor to see how, from one building, arrangements could be made for coal to be mined, transported, loaded on ships and exported across the world.  

Through the use of archive still imagery, illustrations and motion graphics the visitor is introduced to some of the key players who made a living from coal.