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Bristol Museums celebrate the power of stories

Celebrating National Storytelling Week and the National Year of Reading at Bristol Museums  In February and March, Bristol Museums focused on bringing stories to life for families, Early Years and schoolchildren across the city. With ‘Stories’ as our Le…

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Half-term highlights at Bristol Museums

This October half-term, we ran a range of activities across our museums to give families something fun and creative to do together. Here’s a look at what we got up to. Arty Fun at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery We teamed up with SGS College, the M…

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Digitising our Islamic Collection

By Elisa Ricci, Documentation Assistant at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (2024-2025) A new project to digitise the museum’s Islamic collection began in June 2024. The collection includes ceramics, textiles and metalwork. We are grateful to Bristo…

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Digitising the Schiller Collection

By Elisa Ricci, Documentation Assistant at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (2024-2025) In June 2024, we launched a project to complete digitisation of the Schiller Collection. This is the most significant collection in the Asian Art Department at B…

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Summer family fun round up: Roman feasts and railway adventures

What a summer it’s been! Over the last month, our six Bristol Museums sites welcomed families for a packed programme of family fun activities. From Roman history to railway heritage, we offered something for everyone – and we loved seeing so many o…

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One painting. One city. One week.

An Update: Thank you everyone for your amazing support of our #BringTurnerHome campaign. Despite an incredible effort, we were outbid at auction. 

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Kings Weston Roman Villa re-opens ready for some summer fun

Last year, a car crashed into Kings Weston Roman Villa. Bristol Museums have been working with multiple agencies, including Historic England and Cliveden Conservation, to repair the damage. Fixing a Roman villa is a specialist job involving archae…

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Rebel Curators – GRIOT

M Shed in Bristol is proud to announce the launch of GRIOT, a thought-provoking intervention in the Transatlantic Traffic of Enslaved Africans Gallery, developed by the ‘Rebel Curators’. The display is opening on 25 March 2025 to align with the Internat…

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Hashem Shakeri – “Staring into the Abyss”

Iranian photographer Hashem Shakeri has been visiting Afghanistan since the Taliban came to power in August 2021. A selection of Hashem’s images made on these trips is featured in the exhibition Staring into the Abyss. Curator Julia Carver inter…