Shipwrecked! MS Athina B
Over 40 years ago, the Athina B was making its way for Shoreham Harbour with a cargo of 3,000 tonnes of pumice from the Azores. On the 20 January 1980, force 7-8 winds prevented her from entering the harbour. Her … Continued
Creative Together FREE courses are now running at Hove Museum
Creative Together FREE courses are now running at Hove Museum on Tuesday afternoons. The project supports adults with learning disabilities and or ASD (Autism, Asperger’s /Autistic Spectrum Disorders). Members enjoy group study work inspired by objects and collections; drawing, painting, … Continued
Mid-Week Draw in the Museum Lab, Autumn / Winter 2019
The Mid-Week Draw in Museum Lab continued to be a popular way to spend a Wednesday afternoon last year. As we welcome it back for 2020, take a look at some of the drawings created last year. Click on the … Continued
Booth Museum Bird of the Month, January 2020: Scolopax rusticola
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
Royal Pavilion Garden Plant of the Month and A Moment of Wellbeing, January 2020: Galanthus Nivalis
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
Four days with the One Minute Experience
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
Most Popular Online 2019
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
What’s in the Box? All I want for Christmas…
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
360 Walkthrough of the Booth Museum’s Osteology Gallery
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
Archaeological Finds from Across Sussex Mapped by Brighton Museum
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
Booth Museum Bird of the Month, December 2019: Psarocolius decumanus
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
My Year as a Digital Trainee
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
Why Did the Whale Cross the Road? To Get to Cornwall!
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
Image Gallery of the Brighton Museum Galleries
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
What’s in the Box? Terracotta Chess Set
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
One of Our Whales is Missing!
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
What’s in the Box? Souvenir Crested China
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
What’s in the Box? A Wooden Model of a Church Organ
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
What on Earth is going on in Box 9?
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
Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk? Preston Manor’s 2019 Riddle Trail
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
