Vulcan Hotel, Cardiff

Famous Cardiff pub saved and reconstructed in the St Fagan's open air museum. The simple but surprisingly light interior has been reinstated to what it would have looked like after major alterations in 1915. Curved wooden L-shaped counter with glasses and bottles on the bar-back. Just a scattering of small tables on the timber floor (covered in wood shavings), with more seating on benches in the side patio beer garden. A couple of Glamorgan Brewing beers - sold as Cwrw Vulcan ale and Cwrw Golau Vulcan pale ale (£5.50) - on handpump, with its lager and a cider also available.

Visited 19/06/25 Beers here are from Glamorgan Brewing, and it is a straight choice of their bitter, pale ale, lager and apple cider. The first two are on cask. This is just about worth the trek. Probably a 5.5 for novelty value. A previous visit in March saw me get here slightly too late but got here for 2.30pm today on a blazing hot day. The main bar area is bare boarded with wood shavings on the floor and the bar counter is a curved wooden affair in right hand corner. Traditional open wooden shelving behind the bar counter storing the glasses and snacks. Small number of round tables and small stools and a wooden bench under the front window. A couple of working fire grates on the wall opposite the bar. There is a partially covered seating area out the back with picnic benches on a stone tiled floor. There is a nice wooden panel with a door on the wall opposite that leads to the “smoking” room and eventually another small room beyond that (see attached pictures). I don’t recall visiting the incarnation of this when it was in the town centre, this incarnation is of the venue as it would have been circa 1915.

Official site of Vulcan Hotel - museum.wales