Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

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The Russell-Cotes Museum (formally, the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, always spelt with an ampersand) is a museum in Bournemouth, England. It is located on the top of the East Cliff, next to the Royal Bath Hotel.

The museum was originally built as East Cliff Hall during 1897–1907 in the Art Nouveau style by Sir Merton Russell-Cotes, then the owner of the Royal Bath Hotel, and his wife Annie. It was designed by the architect John Frederick Fogerty. It was opened in 1916 as an art gallery attached to the house. After Sir Merton's death, it extended into his house; a further extension was opened in 2000.

The house and the new annex display various items collected in the course of Sir Merton's foreign travels, especially to Japan, and paintings from his personal art collection. One room is the Sir Henry Irving museum; Irving, a friend of the Russell-Cotes', had stayed in that room. The new annex also has a restaurant and a play area for young children. The art gallery in the old annex displays a wide and frequently changing collection of pictures and statues.

Older children are invited to complete a "detective sheet", for example finding where there are pictures of a bat, a kingfisher and other animals and birds.