Bristol Museums

What’s on

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023

EXHIBITION: Returning to Bristol Museum & Art Gallery! 100 stunning photographs showcasing Earth’s extraordinary diversity and highlighting the fragility of wildlife on our planet.

Voices of Georgian House

INSTALLATION: Working with Bristol creatives, Georgian House Museum features two new sets of artistic responses to the Museum’s colonial past, imagining the unheard voices of those that were enslaved.

Concealed/Reveal: Disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent artists driving creativity

EXHIBITION: Throughout galleries and museums, disabled, D/deaf and neurodiverse experiences have been concealed. This new exhibition exposes these hidden stories and challenges preconceptions.

Bristol's stories

From Black history to Banksy, explore stories about Bristol and the world through the city’s objects, art and people.

See our stories

Explore our collections

Our first collections were brought together more than 200 years ago and we’ve been adding ot them ever since. From art to archaeology, history to industry, the natural and wider world, they are amongst the UK’s finest.

In 2012, the collections of the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum were transferred to the care of Bristol Museums. Since then, we’ve been working to photograph and digitise the vast collection.