What’s here at M Shed

As well as our changing programme of exhibitions, there are permanent indoor and outdoor displays throughout MShed for you to enjoy.

The Bristol Places gallery focuses on the physical and dynamic city – the ways that people have shaped and experienced it and continue to do so.

The Bristol People gallery explores activities past and present that make Bristol what it is – creating, trading, challenging and celebrating.

The Bristol Life gallery explores people’s shared experiences in the city, from the momentous to the everyday – see, hear and share stories.

Read about some of our biggest exhibits which are outside M Shed and can be seen even when the museum is closed.

L Shed, adjoining M Shed, contains thousands of items from the industrial, maritime and social history collections.