Portsmouth City Museum

Portsmouth City Museum in March 2012.

Portsmouth City Museum (aka Portsmouth Museum) is a local museum in Museum Road in the city of Portsmouth, southern England.[1] It is housed in a wing of the former Victoria Barracks,[2] a military barracks built by convict labour in the 1880s.[3] Apart from the museum block, the barracks were demolished in 1967.

The museum includes a display on the author Arthur Conan Doyle and his fictional creation, the detective Sherlock Holmes. It also displays artworks. The potter Geoffrey Eastop had an exhibition at the museum in 1992.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Portsmouth City Museum". TripAdvisor. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Sense Of Place South East".
  3. ↑ "Portsmouth Museum". Visit Portsmouth. UK. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  4. ↑ Eastop, Geoffrey; Thomas, Elizabeth (1992). Geoffrey Eastop: 40 years of change in studio pottery. Portsmouth: Portsmouth City Museum. ISBN 0904316092.

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