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Half term at the museum

We have just refreshed the supply of walks books and comics at the museum so please do go and help yourself to them.

The display of “Coronavirus Stinks” postcards written by children during or just after lockdown are also still on display at the phone box and opposite on the Sea Mills community notice board, outside the beauty salon. They will remain up throughout the half term holiday.

Please remember to take hand sanitiser with you when you visit the museum so that you can enjoy it safely. The museum is open Mon-Sat, but the displays can also be enjoyed from outside at anytime.

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The Museum is back!

Sea Mills museum opens with a new exhibition “Coronavirus Stinks.”

The museum has reopened at last

The museum opened again, finally after four months of being closed due to the corona virus. We are asking visitors to bring hand sanitiser with them and use it before and after touching anything. This is the same approach that is being taken in the children’s play area opposite.

Our opening hours are Monday – Friday 9-5pm and Saturday 9-4.30pm. The Cafe on the Square is also open those days 10-3pm and the toilet there is also open.

The exhibition Coronavirus Stinks is made up of the thoughts and feelings of children and young people told in works and pictures, some of them are very moving and they are all important.

Children and young people are still welcome to contribute postcard sized pieces of writing or artwork to the Coronavirus Stinks exhibition, submissions should be posted through the door at 28 St Edyth’s Road. There a postcard templates available in the museum or to download, or just use a similar sized bit of paper or card, or submit digitally.

Freebies at the museum: postcard templates, Homes for Heroes walk books and comics

Even as lockdown has eased we are keen to collect children and young people’s feelings about coronavirus. In some ways they have been the most affected, with many not having attended school for months, exams cancelled and first job prospects made a lot more challenging. We will keep all the cards at the end and offer them to Bristol Archives as a record of our time. Sharing feelings and being listened to is also good for mental health. There’s more about this is our press release about the project.

One of the postcards in the exhibition showing how children have been affected by lockdown

We aim to fill the available space in the phone box and also add postcards to some of the noticeboards around Sea Mills and Coombe Dingle. There are already a few in the noticeboard opposite the phone box between Elexis and Collistear Beauty.

It’s possible to see all the postcards from the outside of the phone box so it’s very easy to go along and have a look whether we are open or not. We hope that you get something out of reading the opinions of children and young people. Please encourage those you know to go and have a look and the young people you know to contribute.

You can also read more about the exhibition at the Bristol 24/7 website