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7 objects you must see in our Children’s TV exhibition

  Muffin the Mule Muffin the Mule ran on BBC from 1946 until 1955. He became a television star and a wide range of merchandise was made using the Muffin character, including books, records, games and toys. A die-cast movable puppet became the fir…

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Fresh takes on Art from Elsewhere

Visitors to Art from Elsewhere can borrow a free Discovery Pen to listen to moving, insightful and creative responses to art works from young people in Bristol. Three groups came to visit the show at both venues and record their thoughts: Year 7 pupi…

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Art From Elsewhere audio tour

In response to Art From Elsewhere, artist Chloe Cooper has produced an audio walk to accompany you on your journey between Bristol Museum & Art Gallery and Arnolfini. You can listen to the audio here or download them to your smartphone. There are …

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And the best caption is…

In this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at M Shed (28 November 2015 – 10 April 2016) we asked visitors to write ‘a caption to make us laugh’ for two images – Turtle Flight by David Doubilet and Komodo Judo by Andrey Gudkov. We had hu…

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Wildlife Photograph competition – and the winners are…

Throughout the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 exhibition at M Shed (28 November 2015 – 10 April 2016) we asked you to share your best wildlife photograph on Instagram for the chance to win exhibition goodies. We’ve really enjoyed…

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‘death: the human experience’ celebrates 50k visitors

Amber Druce, co-curator of death: the human experience We’re celebrating 50,000 visitors to death: the human experience! There’s only three weeks left of the exhibition so if you haven’t seen it yet, now’s the time! Additionally, death: is it your rig…

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Dealing with death as part of working life

Here one of the panelists for our Death Professionals in Conversation event, Su Chard, an Independent Funeral Celebrant takes us through what she does.

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death: is it your right to choose?

The second death related exhibition, death: is it your right to choose? opens at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday 23 January. It will look at end-of-life options in this country and focus on whether we should allow assisted dying to be legalised.

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Wildlife Photograph competition

To celebrate the opening of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 at M Shed, we’re running our own mini competition for all you photography (and wildlife) enthusiasts. Send us your best wildlife photos over on Instagram and you could win some fan…