Welcome to the Events page
As Covid restrictions have eased normal service is being resumed, including meetings in person.
Also, Bristol Museums service offers on-line events, some of which are listed below.
For a full list of what’s on at all of the museums & archives sites, click here.
Visit to Sherborne Castle
A private guided tour of the castle, built in 1594 by Sir Walter Raleigh, with splendid state rooms and grounds designed by Capability Brown.
Cost: £43.50 per person.
A booking form was enclosed with the July newsletter.
Organiser: Carol Lear, carolear@btinternet.com
Illustrated Talk: Tutankhamun, King of Egypt
Prof Aidan Dodson will explore the reign of Tutankhamun, a reaction to the religious revolution of his father Akhenaten, and his life and monuments.
Cost: £7.50 per person.
A booking form was enclosed with the July newsletter.
Administrator: Roni Edwards, colinroni@hotmail.com
Curators’ Talks and Annual General Meeting
Amy Raphael, Project Curator Japanese Ceramics and either Amber Turner or Emily Roy, Project Curator Applied Art, will talk about some of the objects acquired in the last year with the help of funds from the Friends.
No need to book but do come along to find out what our funds can buy for the museum’s collections, after a short AGM.
Visit to Roche Court Sculpture Park
Roche Court is a sculpture park and gallery set in over 60 acres of parkland in the Wiltshire countryside, specialising in 20th and 21st century works of art that are on view both in the park and in their prize-winning contemporary indoor spaces. Our visit will include a guided tour.
Cost: £41.00 per person.
A booking form was enclosed with the July newsletter.
Plenty of spaces still to be filled
Organiser: Richard Avery, rchrdvry@gmail.com
Behind the Scenes: Visit to Ashton Court Mansion
A rare opportunity to visit the mansion itself to see the exhibition in the ground floor rooms and have a guided tour of some of the upstairs rooms as well.
Cost: £9.50 per person (numbers limited).
A booking form was enclosed with the July newsletter.
Organiser: Carol Ouvry, carol@ouvry.myzen.co.uk
Visit to Stourhead
A chance to enjoy autumn at Stourhead house and gardens.
Advance notice; a booking form will be enclosed with the next newsletter.
Illustrated Talk: Cezanne – Father of Modern Art
To coincide with a major exhibition of Cezanne’s work at Tate Modern, art historian David Cuthbert will talk about how Cezanne’s influence allowed modern artists to rewrite the rules of painting.
Advance notice; a booking form will be included in the next newsletter.
Lunchtime talk: Sea Mills – Building homes, building community
In 2019 the Sea Mills Garden Suburb in north Bristol celebrated its centenary.
A group of residents used Bristol Archives to research their area and uncover the stories of the first residents and how they shaped their community. In this online talk, Mary Milton will present some of the stories that were uncovered and the archive documents and photographs that made this possible.
Speaker: Mary Milton, Archive Assistant at Bristol Archives, and Project Co-ordinator of the Sea Mills 100 project.
To book a place for this online talk via the Museum’s website, click here.