The museum was founded by Dr Donal F. Early; a consultant psychiatrist at Glenside from the 1950s.
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One of the most celebrated workers at the former Bristol Lunatic Asylum was the painter Stanley Spencer (later Sir Stanley Spencer RA CBE) who worked there in 1915-1916 as medical orderly in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
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