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About the venue

A period house museum, originally built c.1790 for a wealthy sugar merchant and now furnished and displayed as a typical late 18th-century town house. The house includes a drawing room, eating room, study, kitchen, laundry and housekeeper’s room. There is a small display on slavery and sugar plantations.

Address and contact

Great George Street, Bristol BS1 5RR England

general.museum@bristol.gov.uk

0117 921 1363

The Georgian House Museum is open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10.30am to 4pm from 1 July to 31 August, then Wednesdays and Thursdays and Saturdays and Sundays from 1 September to 31 October, and is closed during the winter from 1 November to 5 April.

http://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/georgian-house-museum

Image credit: Museum of London

British School
Image credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Samuel Scott (c.1702–1772)
Image credit: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

Jeremiah Theus (1719–1774)
Image credit: Mount Edgcumbe House

Nicholas Pocock (1740–1821)
Image credit: Bristol City Council

William Armfield Hobday (1771–1831)
Image credit: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

William Williams (1727–1791)
Image credit: Glasgow Museums

Spanish School
Image credit: Yale Center for British Art

Thomas Smith (c.1720–1767)
Image credit: National Trust Images

Oldfield Bowles (1739–1810)
Image credit: Somerset Museums Service

Richard Phelps (1710–1785)

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