Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
A free multi-subject museum at the top of Park Street, with dinosaur fossils, an Egyptian gallery, Eastern porcelain and works left from Banksy's 2009 residency.
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery sits at the top of Park Street, next to the Wills Memorial Building, in an Edwardian-style building. Admission is free. Its collections span natural history, archaeology and art. The ground floor displays dinosaur and marine reptile fossils found locally, and the Egyptian gallery features mummies. Upstairs galleries hold French Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite paintings along with a large collection of Chinese ceramics and glassware. In 2009, Banksy held the exhibition 'Banksy vs Bristol Museum' here, which drew 300,000 visitors, and his work 'Angel with Paint Pot' remains in the entrance hall. A 1910 replica of a Bristol biplane hangs in the atrium. It is closed on Mondays (except during holidays).
Opening hours
Tue–Sun 10:00–17:00; closed Mondays
Nearby sights
- Wills Memorial Building
- Cabot Tower & Brandon Hill
- Banksy's Well Hung Lover
- Bristol Cathedral
- Brunel's SS Great Britain
- We The Curious
- Bristol Harbourside
- M Shed