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The museum's name is derived from the way that the port identified each of its sheds. M Shed is home to displays of 3,000 artefacts and stories, showing Bristol's role in the slave trade and items on transport, people, and the arts. Admission is free. The museum opened in June 2011, with exhibits exploring life and work in the city. [1]
Bristol Archives is part of Bristol Museums, along with Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, M Shed, Georgian House, Red Lodge, Blaise Castle, and Kings Weston Roman Villa. [5] The core opening hours are Tuesday - Friday, 9:30am-4pm. In addition, on the first two Saturdays of the month, Bristol Archives is open 10am-4pm. [6]
The villa forms part of the collection of Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. M Shed: Bristol: Bristol: Multiple: website Opened in 2011, M Shed is situated on the site of the old Bristol Industrial Museum. Run by the city council, it has no entrance fee. The modern museum covers local history, transportation and industry in their 3 main ...
The large picture Noah's Ark (4 m by 4 m) was painted in c.1710 by the Dutch artist Jan Griffier. Today, the top floor art galleries include a collection of Chinese Glass and the "Schiller collection" of Eastern Art bequeathed by Max Schiler, the Recorder of Bristol from 1935 to 1946 and collected by his older brother Ferdinand N Schiler.
The railway, cranes and vessels all now form part of the working exhibits at M Shed Museum. The museum closed its doors to the public on 29 October 2006. M Shed, the new Museum of Bristol has been created on the site, keeping the same façade and many of the exhibits. It opened 17 June 2011.
The Red Lodge was originally built at the top of the gardens of "ye Great House of St. Augustine's Back". [4] The Great House was built in 1568 [5] on the site of an old Carmelite Priory, later still the site of Bristol Beacon (formerly named Colston Hall), [4] [6] by Sir John Young/Yonge, the descendant of a merchant family and courtier to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
L Shed: Princes Wharf: 1998: 600: theatre, conferences: part of the M Shed museum, has hosted Bristol Old Vic and Head, Hearts and Two Fingers productions [27] Little Theatre: Colston Street: 1923: 300: theatre: turned into a bar for the Colston Hall in 1980; has since been re-purposed as a music venue (the Lantern). [28] New Vic: King Street ...
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