Yearly Archives: 2024

Posted on by Saffron Smolka.

Sounds Good? Meet the Sounds of the South West team

Earlier this year Bristol Archives received the good news that The National Lottery Heritage Fund had awarded them £175,000 for Sounds of the South West, a new regional audio digitisation project. Archives, currently stored on outdated formats such as re…

Posted on by Fay Whitfield.

Keeping connected with the BECC online catalogue

By Frances Davies, Documentation Assistant, British Empire & Commonwealth Collection Back in 2021 we launched a new British Empire & Commonwealth Collection (BECC) online catalogue – it acts as the gateway and first-port-of-call to find out wha…

Posted on by Kate Iles.

The Festival of Archaeology 2024

Join us in July for a month of archaeology as we help celebrate the annual Festival of Archaeology with events for all…. This year’s theme, “Archaeology and Community,” aims to engage visitors of all ages. From  learning through interactiv…

Posted on by Fay Whitfield.

Pyronaut’s 90th Birthday

This June M Shed’s fire boat, Pyronaut, turns 90 years old! She served for almost 40 years in the City Docks for which she had been designed, before being chosen as a diver’s boat for the Port of Bristol, and later beginning transformation into a p…

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Discover the magic of Museums at Night in Bristol

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to explore a museum after dark, without the bustling crowds, at a pace that allows you to truly savour every exhibit? Bristol Museums at Night offers this enchanting experience, designed exclusively for a…

Posted on by Fay Curtis.

New display at M Shed: the toppling of the Colston statue

by Helen McConnell Simpson, Senior Curator of History Today we have launched an extended display at M Shed about the history of protest in Bristol, with the permanent inclusion of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston, which was pulled down during a B…

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Decolonisation: An update on what’s been happening at Bristol Museums

by Lisa Graves, Curator – World Cultures and Archaeology In 2020 we set-up a museum Decolonisation Working Group to direct our ambitions to address racial inequalities in our work. Due to huge internal upheaval over the last two years this work ha…