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Museums Attractions In Bristol

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Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 459,300. The wider district has the 10th-largest population in England. The urban area population of 724,000 is the 8th-largest in the UK. The city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively. South Wales lies across the Severn estuary. Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century the settlement was known as Brycgstow . Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided betwee...
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  • 1. Brunel's SS Great Britain Bristol
    The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset. Since opening in 1864, it has been a toll bridge; the income from which provides funds for its maintenance. The bridge is built to a design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw, based on an earlier design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is a grade I listed building and forms part of the B3129 road. The idea of building a bridge across the Avon Gorge originated in 1753. Original plans were for a stone bridge and later iterations were for a wrought iron structure. In 1831, an attempt to build Brunel's design was halted by the Bristol riots, and the revised version of his designs was built after his death and completed in 1864. Altho...
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  • 2. We The Curious Bristol
    We The Curious is a science centre and charity in Bristol, England. The aim of the centre is to create a culture of curiosity. It displays interactive hands-on exhibits, produces shows and workshops for visitors from schools and for members of the public, and is also home of the United Kingdom's first 3D planetarium. As part of its charitable status, We The Curious has an extensive community engagement programme. In regular weekends throughout the year We The Curious hosts Hello! weekends for communities who are currently under-represented in their visitors while also providing a community membership for charities and groups working in and for the community.
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  • 3. M Shed Bristol
    M Shed is a museum in Bristol, England, located on Prince's Wharf beside the Floating Harbour in a dockside transit shed formerly occupied by Bristol Industrial Museum. The museum's name is derived from the way that the port identified each of its sheds. M Shed is home to displays of 3,000 Bristol artefacts and stories, showing Bristol's role in the slave trade and items on transport, people, and the arts. Admission is free. The museum opened in June 2011, with exhibits exploring life and work in the city. In its first year, 700,000 people visited the new museum. Normally moored in front of the museum is a collection of historic vessels, which include a 1934 fireboat , and two tugboats The museum contains a shop, learning space and cafe. The standard opening hours are: Tuesday – Sunday, ...
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  • 5. Glenside Hospital Museum Bristol
    Glenside campus is the home of the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences at the University of the West of England , Bristol. It is located on Blackberry Hill in the suburb of Fishponds. Its clocktower is a prominent landmark, visible from the M32 motorway. Several of the buildings on the site are Grade II listed.
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  • 7. Earth Sciences Museum Bristol
    Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials without the use of scientific apparatus. Dowsing is considered a pseudoscience, and there is no scientific evidence that it is any more effective than random chance.Dowsing is also known as divining , doodlebugging or water finding, water witching or water dowsing. A Y-shaped twig or rod, or two L-shaped ones — individually called a dowsing rod, divining rod , vining rod, or witching rod — are sometimes used during dowsing, although some dowsers use other equipment or no equipment at all. Dowsing appears to have arisen in the context of Renaissance magic in Germany, and it remains popular among believers in Forteana or radi...
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  • 8. George Muller Museum Bristol
    George Müller was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He cared for 10,024 orphans during his lifetime, and provided educational opportunities for the orphans to the point that he was even accused by some of raising the poor above their natural station in British life. He established 117 schools which offered Christian education to more than 120,000 children.
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