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Curator at Work: Secrets & Stories from the Collections
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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

26 September, 2pm – Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
27 October, 2pm – Booth Museum
13 November, 2pm – Hove Museum of Creativity
9 December, 2pm – Royal Pavilion

Details to be confirmed.

Friday 26 September 2025

Railway 200

2 – 5 pm

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery – MuseumLab

Free with Brighton Museum admission

Railway 200 is a nationwide celebration of the 200th anniversary of the modern railway. Join Dan Robertson and Alexia Lazou from Brighton & Hove Museums’ Collections team for an afternoon filled with rail related objects and stories.

Highlights include:

  • Ongoing cataloguing and digitisation of railway clerk H M Madgwick’s photographs
  • Slideshow of photographs taken by Pullman Car Company carpenter Joe Kent
  • Oral history of Brighton Locomotive Works fitter and turner Ted Sharman
  • Display of railway related objects from the museum’s stored collections
Southern Railway Schools Class 4-4-0 No. 904 at Lancing photographed by H M Madgwick in June 1930.
Southern Railway Schools Class 4-4-0 No. 904 at Lancing, photographed by H M Madgwick in June 1930.