Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

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The Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery is a large museum and art gallery in Bristol, England. The museum includes sections on natural history, local, national and international archaeology and local industries. The art gallery contains works from all periods, including many by internationally famous artists, as well a collection of modern paintings of Bristol.

The museum and gallery is run by the city council with no entrance fee. It holds designated museum status, granted by the national government to protect outstanding museums.

The museum is housed in a building purpose built by William Henry Wills, of the Bristol tobacco trading family, as a gift to the city. The building is of Edwardian Baroque architecture and is situated in Clifton, about half a mile from the city centre.

The museum also holds many of the prehistoric and Roman artifacts recovered before the flooding of Chew Valley Lake.^[1]

[edit] Reference

1. ↑  Ross, Lesley (Ed.) (2004). Before the Lake: Memories of the Chew Valley, The Harptree Historic Society. ISBN 094883209.

[edit] External links

• Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
• Information from the 24 Hour Museum