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At-Bristol - A hands-on science and natural history centre situated near the city docks somprising Explore, Wildwalk and IMAX. Programme details, map and links.
British Empire and Commonwealth Museum - Exhibits detailing Britain's colonial past, situated in Brunel's Old Station at Temple Meads: educational activities, hiring the museum and news.
Bristol City Museums and Art Galleries - The Council gives the location and opening hours for its six museums and historic sites, with details of their collections and exhibitions.
Bristol Industrial Museum - An old transit shed in the Floating Harbour containing over 700 exhibits relating to Bristol's long and varied industrial past. Details and visitor information.
Blaise Castle House - 18th century manor house, now a city museum with a collection of exhinits of every day life, set in an estate landscaped by Humphrey Repton. Pictures, opening times and contact details.
Georgian House - 18th century town house built by plantation owner and slave trader John Pinney. Opening hours, contact details and pictures.
Red Lodge - Tudor house now owned by the City Museum. Opening hours, contact details and pictures.
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Museums A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Museums "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Museums I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Museums What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Museums To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the Museums A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Museums "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Museums The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Museums Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Museums It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Museums "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Museums We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Museums What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Museums The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) What's new? Most of my wife. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Museums Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Museums This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Museums I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Museums A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Museums I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw Museums "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Museums The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley Museums
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