#bristol museum

[earhartsease]

weird how for five years of our life we worked in a museum and got to see these huge Assyrian palace relief panels every day like they were just normal background to life

[ruddykite]

[richwall101]

Bristol City Museum Built in 1872.....

[tofiam]

Don't know where the flag is displayed, but I saw this in Bristol museum:

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

[scholarastrid]

Stairwell in The Red Lodge museum, Bristol, Dec 2024

[regencyronnie]

Visualising Miss Searle: The Search for a Likeness

One of my favourite ‘reality’ shows on television is the BBC’s Fake or Fortune? Experts get to use the latest research and forensics to try and determine whether an artwork is a hidden masterpiece, or something less valuable. It is a good thing that I was so attentive as I have had the opportunity to do a little variation of this sleuthing from behind my laptop keyboard. This all kicked off…

[panchicha]

El Santo vs. Trump

[lionofchaeronea]

The Wedding Register, Edmund Blair Leighton, 1920

[geritsel]

Francis Danby - Disappointed Love, 1821.

[mercuriicultores]

1908, Henry Scott Tuke, Boys bathing

[faradaysketches]

Back End of Concorde. Bristol Aerospace Museum. March 2024

[jadespams]

this is what my girlfriend sees when i call her high out of my mind at 4am

[redpandamerchdaily]

Red panda merch of the day: Bristol Museums Red Panda Soft Toy

[callmeanxietygirl]

Banksy, Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK

[richwall101]

Bristol UK - The Red Lodge

The Red Lodge Museum is a historic house museum in Bristol, England. The original building was Tudor/Elizabethan, and construction began in 1579–1580, possibly to the design of Sebastiano Serlio. The main additional building phases are from the 1730s and the early 19th century.

The Red Lodge is a free museum but runs on donations, and is managed as a branch of Bristol City Council.

The artworks on display at the Red Lodge are listed on the Art UK website

The Red Lodge was originally built at the top of the gardens of "ye Great House of St. Augustine's Back". The Great House was built in 1568 on the site of an old Carmelite Priory, later still the site of Bristol Beacon (formerly named Colston Hall), by Sir John Young/Yonge, the descendant of a merchant family and courtier to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

The Red Lodge would have originally been used as an additional guest house and entertainment pavilion, so that the Young family could promenade their guests through their eight ornamental gardens and orchards to wine and dine them.

Sir John Young died in 1589, and the Red Lodge was completed in 1590 by his widow Dame Joan. From an ancient Somerset and Devon family, Dame Joan was a sister and co-heiress of Nicholas Wadham, co-founder with his wife Dorothy Wadham of Wadham College, Oxford. She was married firstly to Sir Giles Strangways (1528-1562) of Melbury Sampford and then to John Young, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I when she stayed with the Youngs at The Great House on her visit to Bristol in 1574, and the arms of Young impaling Wadham are carved above the porch entrance to the Great Oak Room at the Red Lodge. A fine monument to Joan Wadham (1533–1603) with her recumbent effigy lies at the west entrance to nearby Bristol Cathedral.

Their son, Robert Young inherited the entire estate. Robert quickly spent his inheritance and had to convey the Red Lodge to his half-brother Nicholas Strangways to avoid seizure. By 1595, the building was rented out to various tenants as a residence separate from the Great House. Robert Young eventually sold the Great House to Sir Hugh Smyth of Ashton Court. It is now a museum in the care of Bristol City Council...

[radarsteddybear]

A North American B-25B Mitchell and a British Bristol Beaufighter by the name of Night Mare (along with nose art of a horse to go along with the name).