Entrance is free and the galleries are open from 11am to 6pm Tuesday - Sunday.

We are closed on Mondays, except bank holidays.

Fri 9 Dec - Sun 19 Feb

Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind (Khalil Rabah), Danger Museum (Øyvind Renberg & Miho Shimizu), Museum of American Art, Museum of Non-Participation (Karen Mirza & Brad Butler), Museum of Television Culture (Jaime Davidovich), Victoria and Alferd Museum (Åbäke), Hu Xiangqian's Museum (Hu Xiangqian), Museum of Forgotten History (Maarten Vanden Eynde), Museum of Incest (Simon Fujiwara), Museo Salinas (Vicente Razo).

Following on from Part 1 (24 September - 19 November) Museum Show Part 2 is the second chapter of Arnolfini's Museum Show, a major historical survey of museums created by artists. Museum Show - a 'museum of museums' perhaps - presents a comprehensive selection of these highly idiosyncratic, semi-fictional institutions. It is the first ever exhibition to chart this particular tendency in contemporary art.

Museum Show across its two chapters presents museums by approximately 40 artists from across the spectrum of career status, from canonical to emerging, and from around the globe. The exhibition will look at the different interpretations of what a museum can be, whilst charting the methodologies and reasons used by artists for creating their own institutions - ranging historically from critique directed towards institutions of art, to more contemporary examples that focus their attention towards wider social and political realms of cultural hegemony.

Museum Show Part 2 an ambitious series of installations, including The Museum of American Art, charting the dominance of American art and ideologies from the 50s and 60s in Europe, whereas Khalil Rabah's Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind reconsiders the "ethnographic" framings of non-Western cultures in museums. The Museo Salinas by Vicente features a baroque and delirious collection of Mexican memorabilia - plastic toys, piñatas, masks, stickers, clothing, and other items - related to the controversial image of Mexico's ex-president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, derided for his corruption.

Museum Show Part 2 is also the final exhibition as part of Arnolfini's 50th anniversary programme.

We have a exhibition tours running throughout the exhibition.

Exhibition Guides:

Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind
Danger Museum
The Museum of American Art
Museo Salinas
Victoria and Alferd Museum
Museum of Non-Participation
Museum of Television Culture
Victoria and Alferd Museum
Hu Xiangqian's Museum
Museum of Forgotten History
Museum of Incest

Museum Show Part 2 is supported by:

OCA
Norwegian Embassy
Oxford Exhibition Services
Henry Moore Foundation

More information http://www.arnolfini.org.uk

Tel - +44 (0)117 9172300 / 01

Arnolfini is situated by the water at Narrow Quay in Bristol's Harbourside. It's a 15 min walk from Temple Meads railway station and Marlborough bus station. Most buses stop at The Centre, a short walk from Arnolfini and there's a ferry boat daily service to and from Arnolfini and around Bristol Docks. If travelling by car, follow brown tourism signs to the nearest car park, The Grove.