The Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is a British museum in Bristol, England. It was founded in 1823 in a neoclassical building by Sir Charles Robert Cockerell. Later, in the early 1900s, the original building was replaced by today's Edwardian Baroque-style building designed by Frederick Wills.
The latter building has been designated by English Heritage as a First Degree Monument and is managed by Bristol City Council, the municipal administrative entity of the city. It is one of the so-called "designated museums", a position granted by the national government to the most deserving museums in the country. The museum includes collections of geology, oriental art and history of the city plus sections of natural history and local, national and international archeology. There are also preserved Delft pottery, of English production. In 2012, given the importance that the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery holds, it became one of the main partners of the Arts Council England Major Partner Museums.
To date, the museum also exhibits a collection of Chinese glass art and the "Schiller collection" of oriental art donated by Max Schiler. Inside, there are a range of Chinese pottery from different dynastic periods. Among which are some particularly valuable examples of vitrified art objects in white, blue and green of the dynasties of the Tang and Song dynasties.