Museum · Harbourside
M Shed
Princes Wharf, Wapping Road, Bristol BS1 4RN
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A free museum of Bristol's history in a former 1950s transit shed on the Floating Harbour. Its galleries tell the city's story through its people, places and working life, and the quayside cranes, steam railway and historic boats outside still run on event days.
Permanent exhibitions
- Bristol People, Bristol Places and Bristol Life galleries
- Bristol's role in the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition
- Working Fairbairn steam crane and harbour cranes on the quayside
- Harbour railway and historic working boats
- Bristol Bus Boycott and the city's protest history
Coming up
No dates announced yet.
