Glenside Museum

Glenside Museum is situated within the Glenside Campus in Fishponds, Bristol.

The museum was founded by Dr Donal F. Early who was 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 II listed building. The museums collection consists of a wide range of paraphernalia and images from the life of Glenside Psychiatric Hopsital (previously known as the Bristol Lunatic Asylum and later Beaufort Hospital in World War I) and of the local Learning 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.