Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

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Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
Established 1823
Location Bristol, England


Website Museum Web Site


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 top floor art galleries include a collection of Chinese Glass and the "Schiller collection" of Eastern Art donated by Max Schiler, the Recorder of Bristol from 1935 to 1946 and collected by his older brother Ferdinand N Schiler. It contains a range of ceramic wares spanning different dynastic periods. Particularly fine pieces include a number of white, light blue and green-glazed (Ying Qing and Qingbai) wares from the Tang (AD 618-960) and Song (AD 960-1279) dynasties.

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. It is a grade II* listed building.[1]

The museum also holds many of the prehistoric and Roman artifacts recovered before the flooding of Chew Valley Lake,[2] and other local archeological finds such as those from Pagans Hill Roman Temple and the Orpheus Mosaic from Newton Saint Loe.

Interior of Bristol Art Gallery. The large picture ‘Noah’s Ark’ (4 m by 4m) was painted in 1700 by the Dutch artist Jan Griffier.
Interior of Bristol Art Gallery. The large picture ‘Noah’s Ark’ (4 m by 4m) was painted in 1700 by the Dutch artist Jan Griffier.

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  1. ^ City Museum and Art Gallery and attached front walls. Images of England. Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
  2. ^ Ross, Lesley (Ed.) (2004). Before the Lake: Memories of the Chew Valley, The Harptree Historic Society. ISBN 0954883209)

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