South Gloucestershire Museums Group

South Gloucestershire Museums Group is an unincorporated association. The aims of the group are to promote inspiration, learning and enjoyment through the exploration of museum collections for the benefit of local communities and the general public.

Membership is open to museums and heritage centres that are open to the public and whose collecting area is wholly or partly within South Gloucestershire.

Meetings take place about five times a year at different museums and are organised by the ex-officio secretary, the South Gloucestershire museums and heritage officer. The meetings include museum development to take the opportunity of providing training and development when representatives of local museums, who may be trustees and/or volunteers or professional staff, come together in one place. Where applicable, downloadable presentations from these sessions are available on this page. 

Group members:

• Acton Court
• Aerospace Bristol (Bristol Aerospace Collection Trust)
• Avon Valley Railway (Avon Valley Railway Trust)
• Dyrham Park (National Trust)
• Frenchay Village Museum (Frenchay Tuckett Society)
• Kingswood Heritage Museum (Kingswood Heritage Museum Trust)
• South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group
• Thornbury and District Museum (Thornbury and District Heritage Trust)
• Rolls Royce Heritage Museum (Rolls Royce Heritage Trust)
• Winterbourne Medieval Barn (Winterbourne Medieval Barn Trust)
• Yate and District Heritage Centre (Yate Town Council)

Touring exhibition promotes heritage

We are launching a pop-up travelling exhibition to promote local heritage.

The museums group, has created an exhibition of nine exhibition banners/stands to promote and raise the profile of heritage generally. It is hoped that this will also attract more enquiries of and visitors to each museum and heritage site

As well as an introduction panel, there is a banner for Avon Valley Railway, Frenchay Village Museum, Kingswood Heritage Museum, Thornbury and District Museum, Yate and District Heritage Centre, Acton Court, Winterbourne Medieval Barn, and Aerospace Bristol.

For more information please visit the S.Glos museum development page at South Gloucestershire Council