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Alexandra Loske Curator at Work. Alexandra stands in the Central Gallery pointing to a detail of a painting which depicts a woman lying down and resting her hand on her head.

Curator at Work: Secrets & Stories from the Collections

Join our curators each month for a free (with admission) 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 

  • Thursday 9 July, 11am – Central Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
  • Tuesday 18 August, 11am – Central Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
  • Wednesday 9 September, 11am – Prints & Drawings Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
  • Tuesday 13 October, 11am – Central Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
  • Tuesday 10 November, 11am – Central Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
  • Thursday 10 December, 11am – Central Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Tuesday 18 August

Fanning the Names: Art Deco Advertising Fans

11am

Central Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Free with admission

Escape from the heat by stepping into the cool world of advertising fans. These fans from the Art Deco period are rarely on display, due to their fragility. Here is an opportunity to view them while Assistant Curators, Alexia Lazou and Lucy Faithful, waft nearby sharing details about this fan-tastic collection.

Please note this is a drop-in session, not a talk.

Advertising fan with paper leaf & wooden sticks & guards obverse: chromolitho woman with cascade of gloves, scent bottles, fans, hats reverse: scent bottle & foliate swags labelled: Royal Origan
Fan | ADVERTISING FAN WITH PAPER LEAF & WOODEN STICKS & GUARDS PHOTO GRAVURE OF COUPLE IN EVENING DRESS ARRIVING FOR BAL AU MOULIN ROUGE I I I France, Europe |

Wednesday 9 September

Magical blues: A closer look at Edmund Dulac and Honor Appleton

11am

Prints and Drawings Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Free with admission

In art, blue is often used to create a romantic or magical atmosphere, and to depict mist, spray and fog in a literal and symbolic sense. In this talk, curator and colour historian Alexandra Loske will offer a closer look at the blues in some paintings in the exhibition Into the Blue, including Edmund Dulac’s mesmerising Ice-Maiden, a Victorian nocturne, and the fairytale illustrations by Brighton artist Honor Appleton.

Edmund Dulac’s Ice-Maiden
fairytale illustrations by Brighton artist Honor Appleton

Tuesday 13 October

Materials of Meaning: African Jewellery

11am

Central Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Free with admission

Explore the rich diversity of jewellery across Africa, where materials—from precious metals and glass beads to bone and organic materials—reflect cultural identity, trade and community.

Amulet; Necklace, Ghana, West Africa, Africa. Pre 1874
Necklace consisting of coloured beads and three pieces of wood strung on unknown textile. Collected in the Transkei, Cape Colony, South Africa. Worn by the Galekas people in Transkei, a historical administrative district.
Postcard. Colourised image of policeman with a puppy and agitated swan by the pond in Queen's Park, Brighton. Brighton postmark dated 30 August.

Tuesday 10 November

Picture This: a postcard inventory

11am

Central Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Free with admission

Brighton & Hove Museums holds over 10,000 postcards. Discover the process of cataloguing and inventorying this collection with Dan Robertson, Curator of Local History & Archaeology.

Please note this is a drop-in session, not a talk.

Postcard. Colourised image of policeman with a puppy and agitated swan by the pond in Queen's Park, Brighton. Brighton postmark dated 30 August.
Curator at Work - Saadia. Saadia stands in the King's Apartments of the Royal Pavilion talking to a group of people. She stands by her work table which has a laptop and printed archives
Curator at Work - Saadia. Saadia stands in the King's Apartments of the Royal Pavilion talking to a group of people. She stands by her work table which has a laptop and printed archives
Curator at Work - Lucy Faithful. Lucy sits behind a desk in the Central Gallery of Brighton Museum. On the desk is a laptop and a plastic storage box containing various wrapped objects. A group of people stand facing the desk at Lucy unwraps and talks about the objects.
Curator at Work - Lucy Faithful. Lucy sits behind a desk in the Central Gallery of Brighton Museum. On the desk is a laptop and a plastic storage box containing various wrapped objects. A group of people stand facing the desk at Lucy unwraps and talks about the objects.
Curator at Work - Alexandra Loske stands in front of a painting in Brighton Museum and talks to a group. She holds a folder of art images to accompany her talk
Curator at Work - Alexandra Loske stands in front of a painting in Brighton Museum and talks to a group. She holds a folder of art images to accompany her talk
Curator at Work - Portia Tremlett. Portia stands behind a table in the Central Gallery of Brighton Museum. Objects from the World Art collection are on the table and Portia holds a Chinese Deity object as she speaks
Curator at Work - Portia Tremlett. Portia stands behind a table in the Central Gallery of Brighton Museum. Objects from the World Art collection are on the table and Portia holds a Chinese Deity object as she speaks
Curator at Work - Lee Ismail. Lee stands in the Temporary Exhibition Gallery which showcases the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. He stands by a display of objects from the Natural Sciences collection and holds two small taxidermy birds mounted on wooden blocks.
Curator at Work - Lee Ismail. Lee stands in the Temporary Exhibition Gallery which showcases the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. He stands by a display of objects from the Natural Sciences collection and holds two small taxidermy birds mounted on wooden blocks.
Curator at Work: Secrets & Stories in the Collections
Curator at Work: Secrets & Stories in the Collections