Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Explore our collections of art, nature and history on display in this beautiful building. Find out about the last billion years of earth’s history, explore the region’s natural wonders and discover more about peoples’ lives, past and present. Entry to the Museum is free.

Schools

Discover: Great Art & Great Artists (Handle & discover at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery)

Investigate innovative, inspiring and imaginative art. From paintings to sculpture take time to explore, study and engage with these great works of art and the great artists who created them.
Choose from the themes: Portraits and Identity, Landscapes, or Modern and Contemporary Art.

Suitable for Year 1-7

Discover: Evolution (Handle & discover at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery)

Using a variety of exciting and unusual specimens from the Museum’s collection we will explore Darwin and Wallace’s revolutionary ideas. We will look closely at living things past and present to help us understand the dynamic on-going processes of adaptation and evolution.

Suitable for Year 6

Discover: Rocks (Handle & discover at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery)

At the Museum we have an amazing collection of rocks, minerals and fossils – including the Bristol diamond. Many of them were found just beneath us. Eager young geologists will be able to handle, study and compare a selection and find out what their properties tell us about how they were formed.

Suitable for Year 3