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

Exterior of Royal Pavilion with plants in foreground.

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

brighton festival 2025

Brighton Festival 2025 at Brighton & Hove Museums

Find out more on Brighton Festival 2025

brighton festival 2025

News

Brighton Museum: Home of the Seagulls

Announcements, Press release

May 19, 2025

Changed Lens Productions: Brighton & Hove’s Film History Told by Young Creators

Hooray for Hove-ywood

Announcements

May 16, 2025

Brighton Tram 53 Society

Welcoming Members of the Brighton Tram 53 Society to Preston Manor

Announcements

May 14, 2025

Mods Exhibition

Mods Fashion Exhibition opens at Brighton Museum

Announcements

May 9, 2025

Black and white photograph of VE Day celebrations in Ruskin Road, Hove.

Featured Story

Marking VE Day in Brighton, May 1945

Find out more on the Featured Story

Black and white photograph of VE Day celebrations in Ruskin Road, Hove.

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

Colonialism and Country Houses: The Making of the English Landowning Class

Royal Pavilion & Garden

Discover the hidden history of England’s landowning class.

Preston Manor interior

Dementia Action Week 2025

Hove Museum of Creativity

FREE drop-in information hub and Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friends Information Session

Age and dementia friendly Brighton & Hove

Arms After Hours: A Rare Display of Historic Firearms

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Join us after dark for an adults-only evening exploring some of our firearms and their complex histories.

Arms After Hours: A Rare Display of Historic Firearms

Paper Peony Workshop with Karen Hsu at PomPom Factory

Royal Pavilion & Garden

Join Karen Hsu, the visionary behind the stunning paper flower installation in the Colour Exhibition in this hands-on paper flower making workshop.

Detail of Christmas card showing cycling owls delivering letters

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Story archive

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

Dominic cleaning mould from a Military style coat and trousers

The Mould Wears Prada – A Graduate Conservator Project Update

Blog

Conservation in the Costume Store.

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