Blog

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery to compete for Museums at Night festival

Five artists, 18 venues, two weeks to vote… Bristol Museum & Art Gallery will compete against two other venues in a public vote to win a contemporary artist-led event in October’s Museums at Night festival. Museums at Night is the biannual a…

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

High Seas and Deep Waters: The HMS Challenger collection

It’s amazing what you find when you’re looking for something else in the geology store at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Update: Photographs and films in the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection

By Nicky Sugar and Jayne Pucknell, archivists at Bristol Archives. We introduced ourselves last summer as the project archivists working on photographs and films from the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. During that time, we’ve made consi…

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Five interesting facts about our buildings

By Alex Rankin, Senior Visitor Assistant M Shed It’s a question that often gets asked by visitors – what does the ‘M’ stand for? Many people think it stands for ‘museum’, which would certainly make sense, but the answer actually lies in the buildi…

Posted on March 24, 2016 by museum bookings.

Schools step back into Bristol’s Chocolate past

In the run-up to Easter, school children have been discovering Bristol’s Chocolate-producing past with us during a visit to M Shed.

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Figurehead from the ship Importer on display at M Shed

Back in 1980, the museum acquired a ship’s figurehead from the Bristol Shiplovers’ Society. At the time we couldn’t discover any more about it, but in the last year or so we’ve been able to piece together more of the story.

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Volunteering success stories

We’re really happy to hear that one of our volunteers has just landed himself a job at the brilliant Holburne Museum in Bath.

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Conserving Bristol’s Fine Art displays

Work is well underway refurbishing the Old Masters gallery by taking down the old damask wall covering and giving it a new coat of paint, as well as repairing the ceiling and dealing with various other challenges that old buildings present.

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Mothers in our collection

To celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday 6 March, we thought we’d have a look around our collection for where ‘mothers’ might appear. Here are just a few we wanted to share with you…

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

‘death: the human experience’ celebrates 50k visitors

Amber Druce, co-curator of death: the human experience We’re celebrating 50,000 visitors to death: the human experience! There’s only three weeks left of the exhibition so if you haven’t seen it yet, now’s the time! Additionally, death: is it your rig…

Bristol's Free Museums and Historic Houses