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 the...