Situated in the heart of Bristol’s historic harbourside, M Shed is the city’s flagship museum. The new £27m museum takes the best from the existing collections and combines it with state-of-the-art displays and interactive, audio-visual materials.
Internationally-renowned architects LAB Architecture Studios developed the design for the new museum. They have preserved the existing architectural footprint and 1950s dockside façade within their design.
The external building works and infrastructure works were completed last year by building contractors, BAM.
Thanks to city council investment and a grant of £11.3m from the Heritage Lottery Fund, M Shed is set to be the region’s most significant capital cultural development.
In addition to the major partnership M Shed has also raised over £800,000 to date from a range of supporters including the Department for Energy and Climate Change/BCC energy fund, DCMS, Aiming Higher, Imperial Tobacco, Rolls Royce, South West Screen, Cadburys, The Friends of Bristol Museum and The Friends of Bristol Art Gallery.
Once completed, M Shed will have three permanent galleries – Place, People and Living Bristol. It will also feature a roof-top gallery for local, national and international temporary exhibitions. There will also be a café, education rooms, a top floor event suite available for hire, a shop, conservation workshops and public spaces for live performance. M Shed will be fully accessible.
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