The Pendine Museum of Speed is dedicated to the use of Pendine Sands for land speed record attempts. It was opened in 1996 in the village of Pendine, on the south coast of Wales, and is owned and run by Carmarthenshire County Council. The museum received 33,522 visitors in 2009. For part of the summer the museum houses Babs, the land speed record car in which J. G. Parry-Thomas was killed in 1927.