Located on 7 Great George Road, The Georgian House Museum explores what a Bristol sugar plantation and slave owner's home might have looked like around 1790.
The house was built in 1790 for John Penney, a West India sugar merchant and slave plantation owner, and designed by Bristol architect, William Paty.
The grade II listed building was also home to the freed slave Frances Coker who was a maid and Pinney's slave, Pero, after whom Pero's Bridge at Bristol Harbour is named.
Scenes for the At Home with the Georgians series by Amanda Vickery were filmed at the Georgian House in July 2010. It was also used as a filming location for BBC's A Respectable Trade series, which was adapted from the book by Philippa Gregory, about the slave trade.
The Georgian House is run by the Bristol City Council and has been presented as a museum since 1937.
The house spreads across six floors with 11 rooms across four floors accessible to the public. Visitors can explore the basement, which is comprised of the kitchen, housekeeper's room, pantry and John Pinney's cold water plunge pool; John Pinney's office, two dining rooms, a library and two drawing rooms on the ground and first floors; and a bedroom and small exhibition room on the second floor.
The museum is free and is open Saturday to Tuesday from 11am to 4pm.
Scroll through to see 30 photos from our visit to The Georgian House Museum.
1. The Georgian House Museum
Located at Great George Street, the museum explores what a Bristol sugar plantation and slave owner's home might have looked like around 1790. The museum is free and is open Saturday to Tuesday from 11am to 4pm. | National World
2. Stairs
The museum is spread across four levels and has eleven rooms that reveal what life was like above and below stairs, from the kitchen in the basement where servants prepared meals to the elegant formal room above. | National World
3. Acknowledges History
The museum does not shy away from its colonial past. Two sets of creative responses have been created by Akulah Agami - a theatre maker, poet and writer studying a PhD at Bath Spa University-, Aaron Ayiih - a former Ghanaian TV host and an English graduate with a Master's degree in Communication - and Cleo Lake - a poet, dancer and creative writer and former Lord Mayor of Bristol and Green Party Councillor. The trails imagine the unheard voices and reveal the stories of those who were enslaved, both in Nevis and at the Georgian House. | National World
4. Quotes
A trail of quotes can be found throughout the building and have QR codes to hear their audio version. The trail was created by Akulah Agbami and depicts the imagined response of Fanny Coker, a deeply religious and God-fearing woman, as she carried out her daily duties as a maid. | National World