Join our Curators each month for a free series of informal drop-in sessions across our sites. Find out about their collections, current projects and exhibitions whilst they work in the galleries.
Curator at Work Programme September – December 2025
13 November, 2pm – Hove Museum of Creativity
9 December, 2pm – Royal Pavilion
20 January, 11am – Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Thursday 13 November 2025
A Peep Into the Past
2 – 5pm
Hove Museum of Creativity
Free admission
To complement the current Days of Wonder exhibition Play Back Forward Assistant Curator Alexia Lazou will present equipment from the Film & Media stored collection in this drop-in event.
Highlights include
- Ives Lantern Kromskop
- Stereoscopic viewers
- 8 mm cine cameras
- 8 mm , 9.5 mm and 16 mm film projectors
Thursday 9 December
Exploring the Chinese export wallpaper in the Royal Pavilion Archives
2pm
The Royal Pavilion, The King’s Apartments
Free with museum admission
Join our paper conservator Amy to take a look at some of the Chinese export wallpaper collection here in the Royal Pavilion Archives. Amy is also carrying out her PhD with Brighton & Hove Museums and Sussex University with a focus on this collection. Amy will share some of her research during this session and visitors will get an opportunity to have a closer look at fragments that once would have adorned the walls in the Pavilion.
Tuesday 20 January
Miss Angel in Brighton: Angelica Kauffman’s work in our collections
11am
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Central Gallery
Free with museum admission
Royal Pavilion curator Dr Alexandra Loske showcases works in Brighton Museums’ collections by one of the leading figures in the European art world in the 18th century. Kauffman, nicknamed ‘Miss Angel’ by Sir Joshua Reynolds, was one of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts. Brighton & Hove Museums is lucky to have an important portrait in oil of Penelope (a character from Homer’s Odyssey) by her, but there is more to discover, including one of the first portraits of George IV.
