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Museums & Art Galleries in Bath & Northeast Somerset

Museums and Art Galleries in Bath & Northeast Somerset, such as Victoria Art Gallery and Fashion Museum are listed below. Bath offers the finest Georgian architecture in the country. The Romans made Bath their headquarters in AD 44, building baths around the natural hot springs and dedicating a temple to the goddess Sulis Minerva, naming the city Aquae Sulis. To commemorate this unique period is the fascinating Roman Baths Museum.... read more

Victoria Art Gallery

Victoria Art Gallery, Bridge Street, Bath, Bath & Northeast Somerset

Bridge Street, Bath

Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and North East Somerset´s art gallery houses a substantial permanent collection. On display, in the recently refurbished Upper Gallery, are paintings by Gainsborough, Turner and Sickert, and many other leading artists from... more

Fashion Museum

Fashion Museum, Assembly Rooms, Bath, Bath & Northeast Somerset

Assembly Rooms, Bennett Street, Bath

Fashion Museum: A world-class collection of contempoary and historical dress. Located in the magnificent Georgian Assembly Rooms, the Museum has been recently re-displayed. Special exhibitions during 2008 include: ´17th century gloves´, ´1977´ - a... more

Bath Postal Museum

Bath Postal Museum, 27 Northgate Street, Bath, Bath & Northeast Somerset

27 Northgate Street, Bath

We cover 4,000 years of communication from clay-mail to e-mail. This time-line also includes exhibitions in the Education Room on the Victorians, an essential ingredient in school curricula. Four computer games demonstrate how the post was ´carried´.... more

Roman Baths

Roman Baths, Pump Room, Bath, Bath & Northeast Somerset

Pump Room, Stall Street, Bath

The Roman Baths, the most popular visitor attraction in the West Country, contain the remains of one of the greatest religious spas in the ancient world and a fine Roman museum. It is one of the best-preserved Roman sites north of the Alps and at the... more

Holburne Museum of Art

Holburne Museum of Art, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, Bath & Northeast Somerset

Great Pulteney Street, Bath

Holburne Museum is a beautiful building in its own grounds at the top of the most impressive street in Georgian England. It houses Bath´s most exciting display of fine and decorative art assembled around the collection of Bath resident Sir William... more

American Museum in Britain

American Museum in Britain, Claverton Manor, Bath, Bath & Northeast Somerset

Claverton Manor, Bath

Opened in 1961, the American Museum in Britain was the original idea of Dallas Pratt and John Judkyn who wanted to show the achievements of Americans in decorative arts. A series of 18 period rooms demonstrate how Americans lived between the late... more

Museum of East Asian Art

Museum of East Asian Art, 12 Bennett Street, Bath, Bath & Northeast Somerset

12 Bennett Street, Bath

The Museum of East Asian Art is situated in a restored Georgian building. The collection was founded by Brian McElney, a retired solicitor who practised in Hong Kong. This unique Museum houses a fine collection of objects from all over East Asia,... more

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