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« on: June 17, 2011, 23:41:22 »
After some delay and budget overrun, Bristol finally has a single destination museum charting this great city's past.

The 'M-Shed' opened today (Fri 17/06/2011) on Bristol's historic dockside. Inside, the museum records the city's archaeological, social, commercial, industrial, scientific, artistic and cultural histories. 

Outside, there are large working exhibits such as the steam and electric cranes, a 1930's fire-boat and the dockside railway with it's two preserved 0-6-0 saddle tank locomotives, Portbury and Henbury.

Entry is free to the museum. Some outside attractions are charged for. Further information:

http://mshed.org/

I'm going to pop down there tomorrow to check it out. Never ridden on the short dockside railway. I'll post some photos here.

EDIT: Visited the museum this evening (Sat 18/06/2011). And very good it is too! Sadly the Bristol Harbour Railway isn't running this weekend because the dockside is so busy with visitors to the museum. So I didn't get to have a trip.

I'll post a link to an album of photos once I've collated and edited.
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« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2011, 23:47:55 »
As promised, here's a link to a few photos I took of the exhibits at Bristol's M-Shed.

http://s598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/M-Shed/
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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2011, 10:33:51 »
In my opinion it was not as good as the Bristol Industrial Museum which was proceeded by the new "M Shed".
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« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2011, 20:52:45 »
M-Shed? Weren't they some dance music act in the 90s or something?  Tongue
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