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Each of our museums is special. Together they offer something for everyone.

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Royal Pavilion & Garden

Experience a fantasy palace fit for a king. Bask in Regency splendour inside and out.

Entrance to Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Enjoy world-class art, history and design. Explore inspiring collections, local and global.

Hove Museum of Creativity

Hove Museum of Creativity

Explore memories and making. Indulge your playful side in family friendly galleries.

Preston Manor exterior April 2025

Preston Manor & Gardens

Step into a house full of stories. Encounter ghosts, graves and a secret garden.

Exterior of the Booth Museum.

Booth Museum of Natural History

Discover fossils, feathers, butterflies and bones. Learn about our planet, and how to protect it.

Royal Pavilion Colour exhibition poster

COLOUR at the Royal Pavilion

Launching on International Colour Day on 21 March – 19 October 2025

Discover more about COLOUR

Royal Pavilion Colour exhibition poster

The In Crowd: Mod Fashion & Style 1958-66

Join us for The In Crowd: Mod Fashion & Style 1958-66

Afternoon Tea at the Royal Pavilion

Afternoon Tea at the Royal Pavilion

Afternoon Tea at the Royal Pavilion

News

Royal Pavilion Garden in bloom

Job Opportunity: Graduate Collections Intern (World Art)

Job opportunity

May 27, 2025

Explore Ben Sherman: The Decades

Announcements

May 23, 2025

Exclusive Q&A with the Paint Detective: Patrick Baty at the Royal Pavilion

Announcements

May 22, 2025

Afternoon Tea at the Royal Pavilion

Introducing Afternoon Tea at the Royal Pavilion

Announcements, Press release

May 20, 2025

Royal Pavilion, Saloon.

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20th Century Gallery and roof with lights

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Roof Restoration Project

Vital work has started to repair the 220-year-old roof of Brighton Art Gallery & Museum to bring the Grade II listed building up to 21st century requirements.

Find out more on the Roof Restoration Project

20th Century Gallery and roof with lights

Baby Pavilion

Royal Pavilion & Garden

3 to 4 June 2025

How do babies see colour? It's not so black and white!

Baby Pavilion an event image for COLOUR. A Baby in multicoloured striped suit lies on a multicolour striped blanket

Colour Conversations: Neil Parkinson – The Colour Librarian

The Old Courtroom

Dive into the vibrant world of colour with Neil Parkinson, the UK’s only 'Colour Librarian,' as he unveils the most fascinating colour books in history!

The Art of Making: Hove Museum’s Craft Collection Revealed

Hove Museum of Creativity

Join Laurie Bassam, Curator of Art, Craft and Design at Brighton & Hove Museums, for a fast-paced guided tour of the stunning Craft Collection at Hove Museum.

Summer Solstice Sound Bath at the Royal Pavilion

Royal Pavilion & Garden

Celebrate the longest day of the year in the most magical way with Brighton Sound’s Petra & Matt.

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Story archive

Professor Hakim Adi at the Royal Pavilion

Reframing the Past in a Royal Space: Professor Hakim Adi at the Royal Pavilion

Blog

Hakim Adi is one of the most important historians working in Britain today.

Crowds at the V.E Day Proclamation, Brighton

Marking VE Day in Brighton, May 1945

Blog

To mark the 80th Anniversary of VE Day in May 1945, we look at how Victory in Europe was marked in Brighton.

A Catalogue of the Type, Figured and Cited specimens in the geological collections of the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton.

The Booth Museum Fossils

Blog

John Cooper has published the latest version of A Catalogue of the Type, Figured and Cited specimens in the geological collections of the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton

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