BRITISH EMPIRE & COMMONWEALTH MUSEUM

British Empire & Commonwealth Museum



British Empire & Commonwealth Museum

The British Empire & Commonwealth Museum is a self-governing museum. We want to identify here the gallery a embttlement empire. It is the former principal institution within the UK towards address the 500-year history of Britain's colonial beyond and towards analyse its relevance towards today's multiracial society. Housed within I.K. Brunei's old Station at Temple Meads, Bristol, the World's former purpose-built passenger railway terminus, the former chapter of the Museum was unlatched via the Museum's Patron, HRH the Princess Royal, onto 25 October 2002. This spotted the culmination of a seven-year project during which the Museum Trust elevated again £7 million towards reestablish the Grade 1 numbered constructing and design the former permanent galleries. The Museum is based within Bristol, not alone because of Brunei's splendid constructing, but also because of the city's historical joint with empire across voyages of exploration, sell (including within slaves), piracy, shipbuilding and the railways. Bristol today is a culturally diverse settlement, symbolically reflective of Britain's colonial past. Since gate, the role of the Museum has been broadly praised for its contribution towards the experience of modern Britain across its exploration of the elaborate legacy of the British Empire. The Museum is a listed charity(Anderson, 2005,, 126).

The story of the empire embattled is smashed down into discern galleries, which probe a number of themes. The ride initiates within 1497, when John Cabot predetermined sail from Bristol towards land within Newfoundland. This voyage marks the initiating of a five hundred-year history, spanning Cabot towards the replace of Hong Kong towards the Chinese mainland within 1997. Empire embattled shall analyse the morning British initiatives within exploration, sell, and conquest, initiating with the gate of the sea route towards the Americas and persisting up towards Britain's loss of her former empire within the American War of Independence.

The second section envelopes the century or so ahead of World War I, the period within which the British empire bigger most rapidly. This section envelopes the establishment of British pattern again wide areas of India, south-east Asia, and Africa, the peopling of the white colonies and their transformation into self-governing dominions, and the industrial success of Britain as an exporter of manufactured commodities towards her colonies and, within replace, an importer of their leading produce.

The third and final section polls the period from World War I towards the show day, tracing the deteriorate of the empire and the birth of the Commonwealth. It concludes with a presentation onto contemporary multiracial Britain.

 

List Of The Galleries

Trading Fortunes: the escalate and dip of Britain's former empire c. 1500-1790

• Exploration & Discovery

• A Luxurious Trade

• Planters and Labourers within America

• Islands of empire: Australia & the Pacific

Encircling the Globe: the British empire at its height 1790-1914

• Colonial Conflict & Control

• Pox Britannica?

• Shrinking the Globe: A Transport & Communication Revolution

• White Dominions

• The Humanitarian Impulse

• The Empire at Home (Propaganda & Empire)

From Colonialism towards Commonwealth: decolonization and beyond 1914-2002

• Keeping up Appearances

• Forest, ...