Portsmouth City Museum

Portsmouth City Museum in March 2012.

Portsmouth City Museum (aka Portsmouth Museum) is a local museum in Museum Road in the city of Portsmouth, southern England.[1] The building dates from the 1890s and was previously part of the Clarence and Victoria Barracks complex, which apart from the museum block, were demolished in 1967.[2]

The museum includes a display on the author Arthur Conan Doyle and his fictional creation, the detective Sherlock Holmes. It also displays artworks. The potter Geoffrey Eastop had an exhibition at the museum in 1992.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Portsmouth City Museum". TripAdvisor. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Portsmouth Museum". Visit Portsmouth. UK. Retrieved 14 January 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  3. ↑ Eastop, Geoffrey; Thomas, Elizabeth (1992). Geoffrey Eastop: 40 years of change in studio pottery. Portsmouth: Portsmouth City Museum. ISBN 0904316092.

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Coordinates: 50°47′30″N 1°05′52″W / 50.791636°N 1.097743°W / 50.791636; -1.097743

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