Explore and contribute

Welcome to Explore and Contribute - a place to contribute your own experiences and opinions, and become part of the living record of this great city. These pages expand M Shed beyond its physical space at the Harbourside, and out across the world. You can find out more here about the objects on view at M Shed and the people's stories which they illustrate. But you can do more than that. Visitors to the galleries down at the Harbourside can add their stories and opinions to those on display, via the ICT kiosks in each gallery. And online visitors can do the same via the pages here. The online stories you send, and discussions you contribute to here, are reflected on the kiosks in the M Shed galleries, and vice versa. It's one big world-wide conversation about Bristol - both its past, and where, together, we can take it in the future.

The opinions expressed in the stories in this section are those of individual contributors, and don't necessarily represent those of M Shed.

Your stories

christmas

Hannah

I go round my nanny's house and i have a christmas dinner with my family. i love doing secret santa and spending time with relitives.

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If you could invent a new method of travelling around your neighbourhood what would it be like and which places would you want it to take visitors to?

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Objects in Focus

Rolinda Sharples The Trial of Colonel Brereton
Theme:
Challenging
Samuel Jackson, View of Bristol From Clifton Wood, During the Riots of 1831
Theme:
Challenging
William James Muller with Thomas Leeson Rowbotham Charge of the 3rd Dragoon Guards in Queen Square at 6 o'clock on the Morning of Monday 31
Theme:
Challenging
Thomas Leeson Rowbotham, Bristol seen from Pile Hill on the night of October 30th, 1831
Theme:
Challenging
James Baker Pyne, Warehouse from Wapping
Theme:
Challenging
William James Muller, The Burning of the Custom House, Queen Square
Theme:
Challenging
Muller, The Burning of the Custom House, Queen Square
Theme:
Challenging
James Baker Pyne The Burning of the Toll Houses, Prince Street Bridge
Theme:
Challenging
William James Muller The Burning of the new Gaol
Theme:
Challenging
William James Muller, The Burning of the Mansion House, Queen Square
Theme:
Challenging
William James Muller, Troops Marching up Corn Street
Theme:
Challenging