Posted on June 5, 2026 by Saffron Smolka.

Volunteers crew Pyronaut for real-life response for first time in over 50 years

This Volunteers’ Week, we’re recognising the contribution volunteers make across Bristol Museums with a particularly special story! On Tuesday 26 May that contribution extended beyond the museum. As temperatures rose, Plimsoll Bridge on Bristol Harb…

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Saffron Smolka.

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…

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Fay Curtis.

Students respond creatively to museum objects

by Aseye Negedu, volunteer coordinator Every year we host art students from South Gloucestershire and Stroud College for work experience placements in our museums. Usually they would support our Front of House team but due to the pandemic, this could no…

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Fay Curtis.

Roger Davis’ legacy for the volunteers at M Shed

Roger Davis was an Industrial Chemist who travelled across the globe to different paper mills. Retirement gave Roger the time to do more of what he enjoyed so he joined M Shed’s team of Industrial and Maritime volunteers – a perfect fit with his i…

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Fay Curtis.

Something for Nothing: Celebrating the volunteers of Bristol’s historic harbourside

Something for Nothing is a photography project by Sarah Robbins that celebrates the volunteers that support the harbourside area. During the first few months of 2018, Sarah worked with volunteers from organisations associated with Bristol’s histori…

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Fay Curtis.

Meet the ‘Pliosaurus!’ exhibition volunteer team

by Isla Gladstone, senior curator for Natural History It’s been a busy week for Doris the Pliosaurus as visitors have flocked to see her before our exhibition closes on 18 February. Alongside Doris, we’ve had some other stars of the show – a fanta…

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Fay Curtis.

Meet our volunteers

by Hudi Charin, participation volunteer If you have ever visited Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, you will be familiar with what some of our volunteers do. Many are involved with welcoming visitors and introducing them to what’s on. Here’s a chance to g…

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Fay Curtis.

My summer Erasmus placement in Bristol

by Giulia Porceddu, summer Erasmus student Hi! I’m Giulia. I’m from Sardinia, Italy and I study archaeology. I spent my last summer in Bristol volunteering for Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. I arrived in Bristol on 30 May and I fell in l…

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Fay Curtis.

Could you be a Pliosaurus volunteer?

Bristol Museums has a proud history of community engagement and a big part of this comes from our wide range of volunteering opportunities. Volunteers regularly get involved across all our sites and play a vital role in caring for our vast coll…

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Finding Lemur

by Michelle Cole, volunteer I’m lucky enough to be volunteering in the Biology Department of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery with Natural History Curator Bonnie Griffin, and I’ve already been part of an exciting discovery! Down in the depths of the sto…

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