M Shed and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery will be open 10am-5pm this Good Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and closed on Easter Monday. The Georgian House Museum and the Red Lodge Museum are open on Easter Monday, 11am-4pm. Plan your visit over the Easter weekend
By Deborah Hutchinson, Curator, Geology ‘The tide warns me I must leave of scribilling’ In May 1821 Mary Anning (1799-1847) of Lyme Regis found the first fossil donated to the Museum of the Bristol Institution. It was a well-preserved specimen of a m…