Experts' Choice Award The Georgian House Museum
What the experts agree on
This 18th-century merchant's house reveals Georgian opulence through lavish rooms and furnishings, but its unflinching slavery exhibition—featuring Pinney's own documents—makes it a historically vital, if uncomfortable, visit.
“You get an idea of the merchants' opulence from the richly decorated rooms containing furniture and precious objects.”
– Michelin Guide
Time Out "contains a small exhibition about slavery, including drawings and written documentation from John Pinney himself. Unsettling, but vastly important." Full review
Lonely Planet "Once the home of the wealthy West India merchant John Pinney, this 18th-century house provides an evocative insight into aristocratic life in Bristol during the Georgian era." Full review
