EXHIBITION: 25 paintings in our Bristol School gallery are being loaned to a museum in France. In the meantime we’re displaying new work by local wellbeing art groups.

EXHIBITION: Island Life presents work from over 60 photographers in Martin Parr’s collection to provide a picture of life in post-war Britain and Ireland. Part of Bristol Photo Festival.

EXHIBITION: James Barnor is a British-Ghanaian photographer. Ghanaian Modernist showcases his Black modernism, a fusion of pan-African futurism and 1970s style.

EXHIBITION: Sarah Waiswa has taken images from the British Empire & Commonwealth Collection and responded to them with her own photographic artworks.

EXHIBITION: For the first time, 75 netsuke from Bristol’s collection will go on display in the Eastern Art Gallery. These finely carved miniature sculptures were Japan’s solution to a lack of pockets in men’s kimono and other clothing.

EXHIBITION: Artists Heather Agyepong, Jessa Fairbrother and Lua Ribeira present new interventions responding to our art collections. 

DISPLAY: The statue of Edward Colston now forms part of a new display at M Shed to start a city-wide conversation about its future.

NEW ARTWORK: Local artist, Jasmine Thompson has created a powerful new mural for the front hall of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

EXHIBITION: This exhibition will celebrate Bristol’s instrumental role in the development of British street art, featuring rare works by leading artists.

TOUR: Join a tour of M Shed’s collection stores and encounter treasures from the city’s industrial and maritime past.