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Documenting the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection

by Frances Davies, Documentation Assistant There’s always plenty of behind-the-scenes work happening at the museum. Collections staff are often to be found busy beavering away in stores ensuring our objects are correctly documented and cared for. This is…

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Blaise 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.

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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 &…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…