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The Galleries (formerly The Mall Bristol, but originally opened in 1991 as The Galleries Shopping Centre) is a shopping mall situated in the Broadmead shopping centre in Bristol city centre, England. Functioning as one of the city's retail malls, it is a three-Storey building, which spans over Fairfax Street.
Bristol is the largest city in South West England and one of the 11 'Core Cities' in the United Kingdom. [1] Currently, the tallest building in Bristol is Castle Park View at 98 metres, and has held the record since topping out in November 2020. [2] The tallest structure in Bristol is a wind turbine in Lawrence Weston, at 150 m.
The Galleries may refer to: in England. The Galleries, Bristol, a shopping mall; Galleries Shopping Centre, Washington; The Galleries (Wigan), a shopping centre;
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery run a programme of free and paid events throughout the year that include multi week exhibitions, workshops and drop in gallery curator talks. The biggest annual event is the weekend celebration for Chinese New Year during February which has dancing dragon and lion performances, martial arts, traditional Chinese ...
Festivals are hosted by the gallery. The gallery was founded in 1961 by Jeremy Rees, and was located in Clifton. In the 1970s it moved to Queen Square, before moving to its present location, Bush House on Bristol's waterfront, in 1975. The name of the gallery is taken from Jan van Eyck's 15th-century painting The Arnolfini Portrait. Arnolfini ...
Arnolfini, Bristol, an international arts centre and gallery in Bristol, England; Giovanni Arnolfini (c. 1400 – after 1452), merchant from Lucca, a city in Tuscany, Italy; Giovanni Attilio Arnolfini (1733–1791), Italian hydrologist and writer; Arnolfini Portrait, a 1434 oil painting on oak panel by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck
Bristol is the second largest city in Southern England, after the capital London. Iron Age hillforts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th ...
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. The city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county of Bristol contains a wide range of museums, defined here as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available ...