Day-time in Bristol
Culture
As a European Centre of Culture, Bristol is exciting and unconventional, arty, amusing and animated with a spirit of adventure. Wallace and Gromit, Massive Attack, Portishead, and Smiles Beer all belong. Museums, nightlife and the arts combine in Bristol to create a place quite unlike any other. The Tobacco Factory, Bristol's newest independent venue, presents new and innovative performance art and the Bristol Old Vic is the UK's oldest working theatre. Festivals celebrating everything from film, music and dance to hot-air ballooning, harbour life and wildlife showcase a thriving cultural scene. Art lovers can take in an exhibition at the fashionable Watershed Media Centre or the fine art exhibitions at the Royal West of England Academy. Bristol's latest and much acclaimed cultural attraction is the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum.