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.
Find out about the plants and gardening techniques used to create Oehme van Sweden's first garden outside of America. We'll be exploring the unique ethos and style behind their New American Garden design and how to maintain naturalistic gardens in the UK.
Hear about some of the fascinating quilts in our collection and the people who made them. Particularly focusing on the Amish community, we will explore more about their history and way of life, and the inspiration behind the quilts they made.
Learn all about the beginnings of Pride, which originates from New York City’s 1969 Stonewall uprising. Our speaker, Andrew Foyle, is a buildings and social historian working in the West of England with OutStories Bristol.
Celebrate our incredible green spaces and the nature that thrives at our estate with a day of free activities, tours and walks for everyone to enjoy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
