- Glenside Museum
infobox Museum
name= Glenside Museum
established=
location= Glenside Campus,Fishponds ,Bristol ,England
map_type=Bristol
latitude=51.4849
longitude=-2.5430
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website= [http://www.glensidemuseum.org.uk/ www.glensidemuseum.org.uk]Glenside Museum is situated within the Glenside Campus in
Fishponds ,Bristol ,England .The museum was founded by
Dr Donal F. Early ; a consultant psychiatrist at Glenside from the 1950s. He collected items of memorabilia and started a collection on the balcony of the dining hall of Glenside. When the building closed, the collection was re-located to the Glenside Chapel, and the collection slowly was built up to the museum it is today. The chapel was built in 1861 and is a grade IIlisted building . [cite web | title=Glenside Hospital Chapel | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=378966 | accessdate=2006-12-10] The museums collection consists of a wide range of paraphernalia and images from the life of GlensidePsychiatric Hospital (previously known as the Bristol Lunatic Asylum and later Beaufort Hospital inWorld War I ) and of the localLearning disability Hospitals of the Stoke Park Group and the Burden Neurological Institution. The museum has drawings and paintings by the accomplished artist Dennis Reed who painted images of life at Glenside during the 1950s. These painting are located in the chancel. The museum charges no entrance fee, but depends on donations from the public.Exhibits include several early
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) machines.References
See also
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Churches in Bristol External links
* [http://www.glensidemuseum.org.uk/ Glenside Museum Website]
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