Interesting pop-up talks happen every week at the museum, covering a wide variety of topics about American culture and history.
If you have a fascination for fabrics, this specialised guided tour is just the thing to enhance your visit. The American Museum houses a world-famous collection of textiles, including quilts, embroideries, weavings and prints.
An incredible opportunity to view up close some of our quilts not on display in the Museum, and learn more about the history of quilt making in America.
What did early colonists need to bring with them to treat disease, who practiced medicine and what did they learn when they arrived from the Indigenous peoples? Find out more in this free talk.
Yo-ho-ho – May half term is all about pirates! Come in a costume, hunt for treasure on our free pirate trail and be inspired by the arty maps in the gallery.
We are delighted to present Professor Jerry Brotton for a special talk about Renaissance maps, which sit between science and art, myth and reality, memory and loss.
We are delighted to open our doors to welcome all to enjoy our extensive estate with spectacular views, for a pay-what-you-can day in association with Queer Bath.
Learn all about the beginnings of Pride, which originates from New York City’s 1969 Stonewall Rising. Our speaker, Andrew Foyle, is a buildings historian and social historian working in the West of England with OutStories Bristol.
Join us for a fascinating talk to find out more about the Shaker way of life and how Shaker design was a forerunner to architectural and design modernism in the twentieth century.
