To start the new year, the Booth Museum take a look at the Woodcock Scolopax rusticola. UK conservation status: Red Woodcocks are classed as wading birds, however, as the name suggests, they spend much of the time in woodland, hiding … Continued
To perk up this gloomy January take a moment to look at the Common Snowdrop. Flowering late winter to early spring, these are some of the earliest flowers to be seen and cheer up any dark, cold winter day. To … Continued
Digital Manager Kevin Bacon on how a new experimental app can change the way we tell stories about our exhibits and transform the visitor experience. Last month, two researchers from the IT University of Copenhagen came to Brighton Museum to … Continued
Whether it’s blog posts, videos or digitised collections, here is a run through of the most popular online content we have published this year. Blog posts Our blog received almost 120,000 page views in 2019. As with most years, the … Continued
Collections Assistant Joy Whittam on past Christmas wishes, now on display as part of What’s in the Box in Hove Museum. In 1971, aged 9, I wrote my annual letter to Santa Claus with my Christmas list of ‘wished for’ … Continued
Museum Futures trainee Tasha Brown on creating an online legacy for the Osteology gallery in the Booth Museum of Natural History. Most museum galleries come and go with very little trace left behind. Before the Osteology gallery at the Booth … Continued
This bound volume of Ordnance Survey maps has been in Brighton Museum’s collections since about 1914. It was actively used by Herbert Samuel Toms, a curator at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery from 1897 to his retirement in 1939 and … Continued
We had a busy and fun day at Hove Museum recently for our annual Christmas crafting event including a hunt around the museum. A big thank you to all the families who came to get creative with us, making it … Continued
December’s bird is the Crested oropendola, Psarocolius decumanus. Oropendolas forage in groups, looking for fruit and insects. They can use their beaks to prise open clusters of dead leaves. This ability to powerfully open, rather than close, their beaks only occurs … Continued
In a few weeks I will finish a year-long placement with the digital team at Royal Pavilion & Museums. During the first week of my traineeship in January I wrote a blog about the upcoming year and what I hoped … Continued
Last week a killer whale skeleton was moved from the Booth Museum to be on display in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. The killer whale will be on display at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall for two years along with … Continued
Our local history collections hold thousands of postcards, a few of which show Brighton Museum and some of its former galleries. Some of the long-gone Brighton Museum galleries featured in these postcards include the fine art, zoological, geological and archaeological … Continued
Here’s the latest story from our What’s in the Box display. Piecing together the history of the Terracotta chess set. When carefully opening one of our hundreds of storage boxes I found, what I thought was, an extraordinary chess set. … Continued
Regular visitors to the Booth Museum will notice a large gap in our displays where our largest object has disappeared. Our Orca (or Killer whale) skeleton which normally hangs in our osteology gallery has gone! If you’re a fan … Continued
Here’s the latest story from our What’s in the Box display. Do you recognise this china? These miniature porcelain models, with their crests of British seaside towns, were once hugely popular souvenirs. In 1910 most people in Britain owned one … Continued
Here’s the latest story from our What’s in the Box display. This beautifully made wooden model of the church organ in Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Brighton was made by a Mr DA Wright – perhaps a worshipper at the church? … Continued
Here’s the latest story from our What’s in the Box display. There is a suspicious gent and a headless lady a man is hanging out with spirits a ‘ghost’ is tormenting poor villagers Death is greeting a drinking man Hamlet … Continued
During the summer season 2019 families visiting Preston Manor were challenged by a specially created Riddle Trail. The trail took them on a journey around the house encountering Victorian brain-teasers, puns and puzzles on the way. Arguably the most famous … Continued
His Dark Materials on BBC1 In the trailer for the major new BBC series ‘His Dark Materials’ above, there is a brief appearance at 1:08 for a digitised version one of our specimens. Two years ago several of our specimens … Continued
Come and join us for a fun day of creativity at Hove Museum with Making Day: Christmas Crafters. Event Details: Start: 30th November 2019 at 11:00 am End: 30th November 2019 at 4:00 pm Categories: Events, Families, Workshop Ease yourself gently into the … Continued
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