Visiting the Russell-Cotes Museum from Marsham Court Hotel

During your holiday at Marsham Court Hotel, one of Bournemouth’s leading hotels with a sea view, you’ll be looking for things to do besides enjoying Bournemouth’s stunning beaches. Among a wide range of indoor and outdoor activities is the town’s most stylish museum and art gallery, the Russell-Cotes Museum. And this couldn’t be more convenient to visit from Marsham Court — you just have to cross the road.

East Cliff Hall

The fascination of the Russell-Cotes Museum doesn’t just lie in the objects exhibited there. The house itself, originally called East Cliff Hall, is its own best exhibit.

A Grade 2* building, it was completed in 1901 by Sir Merton Russell-Cotes as a birthday present for his wife, Annie. Built in a lavish Art Nouveau style, with French, Japanese and Moorish influences, it was from the start a museum as well as a residence. While Merton and Annie were living there, it featured rooms specially designed to show off the extensive collection the couple had amassed from their world travels, as well their fine art collection.

Merton and Annie gave East Cliff Hall to Bournemouth, for use as a museum, while they still lived there. After both had died, it was renamed the Russell Read More......

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