Bristol Museums

What’s on

Gender Stories

EXHIBITION: Challenging rigid definitions and binary narratives, investigate the connections between sex, gender, sexuality, and identity.

Erased from the Face of the Earth: A powerful testimony of Ukraine’s devastation

EXHIBITION: A photographic exhibition that highlights the impact of the ongoing war in Ukraine following the Russian invasion in February 2022.

Bristol Pride x Martin Parr

EXHIBITION: Legendary photographer Martin Parr teams up with Bristol Pride and Bristol Museums to showcase a retrospective of his photos of the city’s annual Pride festival.

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.