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Posted on July 5, 2018 by Fay Curtis.

Blaise Castle House Museum – staff favourites

There’s a real range of objects on display at Blaise Castle House Museum – including toys, dolls houses, paintings, kitchenware, and costume. Museum staff share some of their favourites.

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Fay Curtis.

Creating Deadly Doris

By Tony Hitchcock, model maker Doris the Pliosaurus, ferocious star of our recent temporary exhibition, now has a new long-term home in the back hall at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery thanks to visitor support and funding from our Friends’ Group &…

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Fay Curtis.

Explore incredible objects with Civilisations AR

Have you been following the BBC’s new Civilisations series, exploring thousands of years of visual culture?

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Fay Curtis.

Evidence of Making

By Trevor Coombs, Documentation Assistant On January 9, 1961, the American artist Robert Morris entered his studio in New York and made a nine-and-three-quarter inch square box out of walnut wood. During the three and a half hours it took for him to cons…

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Lauren MacCarthy.

Modern sculpture in the Bristol collection: The making of an online exhibition

By Fridy Duterloo-Morgan, MA Curating student at UWE Since January 2017, I have been working in the Fine Art Department at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, mentored by Julia Carver, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. This placement forms part of t…

Posted on November 22, 2017 by Lauren MacCarthy.

Dolls made by a freed (manumitted) woman in Grenada

by Sue Giles, senior curator for World Cultures In 2012, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery and Bristol Archives took on the collections of the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum (BECM). There are some real gems in the collection, and we are slow…

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Lauren MacCarthy.

Behind the scenes: Hanging a Bouts

by Lisa Huang-Taylor, curatorial placement I am currently on a placement with the curatorial department at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery and I went behind the scenes for the hanging of St Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child painted by the workshop of 15…

Posted on October 1, 2017 by Fay Curtis.

Black History Month in the World Cultures department: Uncovering African textiles

by Lisa Graves, curator of World Cultures Black History Month is always a great excuse to work on making our African collections in the World Cultures department more accessible. Last year we created narratives around groups of objects, such as bea…

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Fay Curtis.

Celebrating the multicultural beauty of Bristol

By Lacey Trotman, Digital Apprentice At the beginning of the year, one morning in a staff meeting, it was revealed that Bristol residents speak a total of 91 languages. Now that’s an impressive statistic for a city of just 428,100 people (2011 cens…

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Fay Curtis.

The Painted Ceiling

By Trevor Coombs, Documentation Assistant, Fine Art Have you ever attended a full council meeting at City Hall? Perhaps as a member of the public interested in one of the agenda items, or maybe you are a council officer doing your job, or a coun…

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