Art Museum

Arnolfini

Arnolfini
Arnolfini

Arnolfini is an art museum in City of Bristol, United Kingdom.

About Arnolfini

Arnolfini is an international arts centre and gallery in Bristol, England. It has a programme of contemporary art exhibitions, artist's performance, music and dance events, poetry and book readings, talks, lectures and cinema. There is also a specialist art bookshop and a café bar. Educational activities are undertaken and experimental digital media work supported by online resources. Festivals are hosted by the gallery.

The gallery was founded in 1961 by Jeremy Rees, and was located in Clifton. In the 1970s it moved to Queen Square, before moving to its present location, Bush House on Bristol's waterfront, in 1975. The name of the gallery is taken from Jan van Eyck's 15th-century painting The Arnolfini Portrait. Arnolfini was refurbished and redeveloped in 1989 and 2005.

Arnolfini by the numbers

Founded
1961
Visitors / year
398,000

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Artworks shown from Arnolfini are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.