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The Bristol Historical Society Museum, located in Bristol, Connecticut, is a museum dedicated to the promotion of interest in Bristol history and encouraging an appreciation for its importance. The Bristol Historical Society collects, preserves, and interprets significant historical resources to enhance the present community and provide a ...
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 ...
Bristol Museum entrance, 1904 A Bristol Biplane replica hangs from the ceiling of the main hall of the Museum. This aircraft was made in 1963 for the film Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. The museum's natural history galleries include a large selection of taxidermied animals Sarcophagi in the Egyptology collections Assyrian reliefs
Bristol Military Memorial Museum, Bristol - collections now at the Bristol Historical Society [22]; Burndy Library - formerly in Norwalk, collection is now in The Huntington Library in San Marino, California and in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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]
A grant from Tufts University will help fund volunteer-led efforts to make primary source resources publicly available for free.
In the early 19th century, the romantic medieval gothic style appeared, partially as a backlash to the symmetry of Palladianism, and can be seen in buildings such as Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, [65] Royal West of England Academy, [66] and The Victoria Rooms. [67]
The exhibits are “Journey Stories” and “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964.”