Bristol's City Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol's premier museum and art gallery. This magnificent building houses important collections of minerals and fossils, natural history, eastern art, world wildlife, Egyptology, archaeology and seven galleries of fine and applied art. The museum has an ever-changing programme of temporary exhibitions and an engaging public events programme. The museum shop stocks a wide range of souvenirs and gifts, and the splendid café provides refreshments in magnificent surroundings.  The front and rear halls are available to hire for private and corporate events outside of opening hours.

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Bristol's Blaise Castle House Museum

This 19th century mansion, set in 400 acres of parkland, is home to the social history collection. Discover everyday objects from centuries past including Victorian toilets and baths, kitchen and laundry equipment, model trains, dolls, toys, and period costume. The museum is located in the beautiful and extensive parkland of the ancient Blaise Castle Estate at Henbury. The ornate Picture Room is licensed for civil marriages, civil partnership ceremonies and naming ceremonies. 

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Bristol's Georgian House Museum

An exquisite example of an 18th century townhouse. Originally home to John Pinney, a Bristol sugar merchant, this six storey townhouse has been restored to its original glory and decorated in the style of the period. The house was also home to the slave Pero and the displays illustrate the lifestyle of a middle-class merchant and his domestic servants. Displays include a fully equipped kitchen, elegant drawing rooms and an unusual cold-water plunge bath.

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Bristol's Red Lodge Museum

A magnificent 16th century house furnished in Elizabethan, Stuart and Georgian styles. This building houses one of the city's greatest treasures: the Great Oak Room, considered to be one of the finest Elizabethan rooms in the West Country. The entrance porch, superb carved oak panelling, carved stone chimneypiece and ornate plasterwork ceilings are all original. A beautiful Tudor-style knot garden filled with flowers and shrubs of the period has been created in the walled garden outside.

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Bristol's Kingsweston Roman Villa

Partial remains of a Roman villa. Collect a key from Bristol's Blaise Castle House Museum. A refundable deposit is required. Access is over uneven grass, no pavement, on-street parknig and no toilet facilities.

Long Cross, Lawrence Weston, Bristol BS11 0LP

For current details please contact 0117 922 3567.

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Bristol's Industrial Museum

Bristol's Industrial Museum closed on 29 October 2006 and work has started on transforming it into the new Museum of Bristol, due to open in 2010.  The design will retain many of the existing features seen on the current building.  Right in the heart of the city's historic harbour, the Museum of Bristol will tell the unique story of the city, its people and its place in the world.

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Bristol's City Record Office

800 years of Bristol's history can be found in a large converted tobacco warehouse standing at the entrance to the city's famous Floating Harbour.

This is the home of Bristol's City Record Office which looks after the city's archives for all those wanting to find out more about the history of their family, locality, community, or the city itself. No appointment is necessary. Just come along and discover the pleasure of research through old documents, microfilm, film, and our computerised picture library.

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