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The Bristol Industrial Museum closed in 2006 and was transformed into the M Shed. The conversion was designed by Lab Architecture Studio. [4] It was expected to cost £27 million including a grant of £11.3 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund. [5] Another £1.39 million of HLF funding was announced in April 2011. [6] It reopened in June 2011.
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 ...
Other museums and sites administered by Bristol Culture are M Shed, Blaise Castle House Museum, the Red Lodge Museum, the Georgian House Museum, Bristol Archives and Kings Weston Roman Villa. The Bristol Industrial Museum, which closed in 2006 reopened in June 2011 as a museum called M Shed dedicated to telling the story of Bristol.
The We Are Bristol History Commission said the statue of the slave trader should enter the permanent collection of Bristol’s museum service. Edward Colston statue should be displayed in museum ...
The statue of slave trader Edward Colston has been out of public view since January 2022.
The memorial to Edward Colston, who died in 1721, was pulled down from its plinth and rolled into a dock last year.
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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.