Grants & Acquisitions
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One of the primary aims of the Friends is to raise funds to help the museums, art gallery and archives to acquire and conserve artefacts, buy equipment, run educational activities, refurbish galleries ”¦Read More »
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photographs: “water memories”
With a small but very interesting collection of Native North American Indian material, mostly dating to about 1900, the latest acquisition helps to bring the collection up to date. A ”¦Read More »
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Empress Matilda Silver Penny
The Friends of Bristol Museums Galleries & Archives have helped the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery to buy a rare silver penny issued by the Empress Matilda. This helps to ”¦Read More »
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The Prehistoric Craft Project
The Prehistoric Craft Project will introduce 60 children from a local Primary School with the Iron Age landscape at Blaise Castle House Museum & Estate in a new and exciting ”¦Read More »
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Talking Heads
The Formal Learning team will be running creative workshops for Year 5 & 6 children at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery during May and June. The workshops, made possible by ”¦Read More »
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Portrait of Tachaco
With a small but very interesting collection of Native North American Indian material, mostly dating to about 1900, the latest acquisition helps to bring the collection up to date. A ”¦Read More »
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The William Smith geological map of the UK, 1815
FBMGA have funded the purchase of a conservation-standard, purpose-made inner tube and box to house William Smith”™s 1815 map of the UK, considered to be the first geological map ever ”¦Read More »
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Westbury Pliosaur II
FMBGA has provided £650 to support the commissioning of a new model of the 1.2 metre long skull of the ”˜Westbury Pliosaur II”™, Pliosaurus carpenteri. This fossil is one of ”¦Read More »
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Payback figures
In the Highlands area of Papua New Guinea, death was not considered natural, so when a person died, it was thought (in some areas still is thought) that someone was ”¦Read More »
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The Nautical Log of the Barque ”˜Fantee”™
Bristol Record Office is extremely grateful to the FBMGA for purchasing the nautical log of the barque ”˜Fantee”™, on a voyage to West Africa from Bristol, and back (1855 ”¦Read More »