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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 & Gardens – opening 5 April 2025

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 in snow

Enjoy Christmas at the Royal Pavilion

From Father Christmas to spectacular trees, an ice rink to our famous mice trail - there's something for everyone to get all the festive feels at the Royal Pavilion!

Royal Pavilion in snow

Christmas shop display 2024

Christmas shopping at the Royal Pavilion

Christmas shop display 2024

Royal Pavilion Roof Appeal

We are raising money to repair and preserve some of the ‘at risk’ domes and canopies on the iconic roof of the Royal Pavilion.

News

Colour, Culture, and Curiosities: 2025 at Brighton & Hove Museums

Announcements

December 12, 2024

Stephen Jones's dragon hat

Dragons will fly – Stephen Jones’s dragon hat moves to the Pavilion

Announcements

December 11, 2024

Christmas shop display 2024

Christmas shopping at the Royal Pavilion

Announcements

December 2, 2024

Choirs at the Royal Pavilion

Announcements

November 29, 2024

Christmas Mice 2024

Featured Story

Ice Ice Micey

Christmas Mice 2024

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.

20th Century Gallery and roof with lights

Basement & Tunnel Tours: September to December 2024

Royal Pavilion & Garden

3 September to 14 December 2024

Our popular Basement & Tunnel tours offer an unpolished, behind-the-scenes glimpse of areas of the building not normally open to the public.

Tunnel tours at Royal Pavilion in Brighton ***Pic by David McHugh / Brighton Pictures

Royal Pavilion Christmas Banquets

Royal Pavilion & Garden

12 to 14 December 2024

The Royal Pavilion invites you to celebrate Christmas in regal splendour.

Banqueting Room Dinner. The room is laid our with a long centre table and smaller round tables to the side. They are all dressed in white tablecloths and have been set for a meal.

Creative kids club at Hove Museum of Creativity

Hove Museum of Creativity

30 June to 16 December 2024

Art is for everyone. Join in the fun at the Creative Kids Club, with different cool art activities each time. It's frequently sold out so don't wait.

Autumn at the Booth Museum

Booth Museum of Natural History

21 September to 18 December 2024

Find out more about the changing season and what some animals do to slow down and prepare for Winter in this autumnal display.

Diorama inspired by wildlife in the city against a backdrop of climate change. The model is a 360-degree view of an urban garden, where animals can be seen living, hunting, and eating together around a bird feeder. The photo depicts a small fox looking up at the bird feeder, and next to him, there's a small plastic toy car.

Detail of Christmas card showing cycling owls delivering letters

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Detail of Christmas card showing cycling owls delivering letters

Story archive

Kuan Yin/ Guan Yin, Goddess of Mercy (WA505646)

Decolonising the Sacred: Working with the University of Leicester on the Respectful Curation of Chinese Deities

Blog

There are very few collections of this type in the UK and the Brighton collection has been described as the second most significant in a museum collection in the country.

Crace drawing for the Music Room from Cooper Hewitt collection

The Dragon is in the Detail: Crace design drawings for the Royal Pavilion

Blog

The Pavilion is a great example of interior decoration becoming a genre in its own right in the early nineteenth century.

Martin Easdown’s book, ‘The Devil’s Dyke: A Delightful Spot To Spend A Happy Day’

Finding James Henry Hubbard

Blog

Local researcher and writer Sheila Marshall recently discovered a little-known history, hidden in the pages of a book.

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