List of museums in Bristol

Grade II listed

The Arnolfini Portrait

estate to the west of Bristol. Although the estate lies mainly in North Somerset, it is owned by the City of Bristol. The core of the house was built in the 15th century, but it was enlarged and adapted over the centuries by the Smyth family, who bought the estate in 1545. The south façade and the wing incorrectly attributed to Inigo Jones,^[6] date from about 1633^[7] and were extended eastwards in the 19th century. The house became derelict after the last of the Smyths died in 1946; it was taken over by the City in 1959, and restoration has been an ongoing process since then. The facilities of the house are now rented out for business conferences, parties and weddings. The mansion house and stables have been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.^[8]

At-Bristol

Canon's Wharf
51°27′03″N 2°35′55″W / 51.4509°N 2.5986°W / 51.4509; -2.5986 (At-Bristol)

cinema occupied a modified 19th century former lead-works building,^[9] and Explore occupies a 1906 railway goods shed measuring 540 ft by 133 ft (165 m by 41 m).^[10] Wildwalk and the cinema have since closed. The goods shed was one of the first buildings to use reinforced concrete and both buildings are Grade II listed buildings

Blaise Castle House Museum

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery since 1949, Blaise Castle House now features historic household items, toys, period costumes, mid-Victorian paintings, recreated Victorian

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

Edwardian Baroque architecture and has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.^[13]

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, since it was presented to the city as a museum in 1937. It is a well-preserved example of a typical late 18th-century town house, which has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.^[18] It was built around 1790 for John Pinney a successful sugar merchant. It was also home to Pinney's slave, Pero, after whom Pero's Bridge at Bristol Harbour is named.^[19] It contains some of the original furniture and fittings, such as the bureau-bookcase in the study and a rare cold water plunge bath, and has been used as a location for the BBC TV series A Respectable Trade, which was adapted from the book by Philippa Gregory

Psychiatric Hospital (previously known as the Bristol Lunatic Asylum and later Beaufort War Hospital in World War I) and of the local Learning disability

Lawrence Weston
51°29′50″N 2°40′02″W / 51.4973°N 2.6672°W / 51.4973; -2.6672 (Kings Weston Roman Villa)

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

New Room

Methodist chapel in the world. The chapel includes a double decker pulpit, which was common at the time, and an octagonal lantern window to reduce the amount paid in Window tax. In addition to meetings and worship the New Room was used a dispensary and schoolroom for the poor people of the area.^[23] The pews and benches were made from old ship timber.^[24] The courtyards around the building contain statues of John Wesley^[25] and his brother Charles.^[26] The John Snetzler Chamber Organ of 1761 is a 20th-century addition following the restoration of the building in 1929 by Sir George Oatley. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building,^[27] and is the only piece of land in Broadmead for which the freehold has not been bought by Bristol City Council during expansion after World War II

Bristol city centre
51°27′20″N 2°35′59″W / 51.4556°N 2.5996°W / 51.4556; -2.5996 (Red Lodge Museum)

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U.S. Army. It was not until 1950 that the building was returned to its original function after the intervention of the then Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.^[30] Among the paintings in the permanent collection are works by artists from the Newlyn, St Ives and Bloomsbury Schools. Paintings by George Swaish, Matthew Hale, Anne Redpath, Mary Fedden, Carel Weight, Bernard Dunstan and Elizabeth Blackadder are also valued additions to the collection. The building is a grade II* listed building constructed in 1857. The interiors are by Charles Underwood and façade by JR Hirst, altered in 1912 by SS Reay and H Dare Bryan. The first floor is in 3 sections, the outer ones articulated by paired Corinthian pilasters flanking large shell head niches with statues of Flaxman and Reynolds. A large carving of 3 female figures crowns the parapet. The interior includes coloured marble.^[31]

coal hulk until scuttled in 1937.^[34] In 1970, Great Britain was returned to the Bristol dry dock where she was first built.^[35][36] Now listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, the vessel is a visitor attraction and museum ship in Bristol Harbour

Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and Bristol Archives in 2012.^[40] Work on the collections has been ongoing since 2015; the objects, photos and documents are now used in exhibitions^[41][42][43] and educational activities,^[44] and catalogued collections are available for research.^[45]