The theme of May 2019’s image gallery of the month is the West Pier. The original structure of the pier was built in 1866 and many additional features were added over the next 50 years, including a bandstand in 1875, … Continued
Royal Pavilion curator Alexandra Loske takes a look out of her office window, and reflects on the historic changes that have taken place in Brighton’s Church Street. My office is in the Old Court House, a sturdy Victorian building in … Continued
For May’s plant of the month, the Royal Pavilion Garden Volunteers chose the Potentilla Fruticosa. It is a pretty, medium sized shrub with primrose yellow flowers, that continuously flowers throughout the summer. It can be found on the windy path near … Continued
For almost two years now, the Brighton Museum has housed the UK’s largest collection representing trans lives; The Museum of Transology. The exhibition currently displays diverse artefacts, including everything from prosthetics to train tickets, donated by Brighton’s vibrant trans community. … Continued
Since December 2018 Museum Lab has been host to those showing off their artistic talents, inspired by objects from our collections. The last session ran from December to March 2019 with both drop-ins and regular drawers, one describing it as … Continued
Peek behind the scenes and see what we have found in our stores! Behind the scenes in our museums, our Curatorial & Conservation teams constantly work to catalogue, conserve and research the collections. Along the way, the team discover new stories about artefacts that they don’t always get a chance to tell. Our … Continued
We have just released over 2,700 digitised copies of the Brighton Argus on to our Digital Media Bank. All these issues date from the 1880s, and can be downloaded and re-used free of charge. The only local newspaper that survives … Continued
University of Brighton student Kayleigh Peters looks at the back story to a teapot in Brighton Museum that tells a biblical tale. This short study investigates a teapot, which is on display in Willett’s Popular Pottery, a gallery on the … Continued
George IV was a keen and able horseman, who admired the beauty and power of horses. The stables he constructed on the Royal Pavilion Estate are remembered in All the King’s Horses, our new display in Brighton Museum. The stables, … Continued
Winter has finally drawn to a close, and with longer days and sunnier skies, spring has also brought a small new display to the Booth Museum: The Marvellous Mary Merrifield. Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1804-1889) was a remarkable self-taught artist, naturalist … Continued
The theme of April 2019’s image gallery of the month is spring. To celebrate the longer days, Easter and the beautiful weather, we’ve compiled an image gallery of some spring-themed items in our collections including oil paintings, easter eggs, butterflies … Continued
Amidst the modern buildings of today’s Brighton are an abundance of medieval churches, streets and manors which may go unnoticed to many residents. The term ‘medieval’ refers to the Middle Ages, a period of European history which is broken into three … Continued
This month the Royal Pavilion Garden Volunteers chose the Symphytum Caucasicum otherwise known as Blue Comfrey. It is a herbaceous perennial Caucasian Iran. It grows in moderately fertile moist soil both in full sun and partial shade. It is a woodland … Continued
University of Brighton student Ruby Mitchell discusses a dressing table and chair designed by Paul Follot that can be seen in Brighton Museum’s Twentieth Century Art & Design Gallery. On a visit to Brighton Museum I was immediately drawn to … Continued
Last summer I was invited to give a lecture about George IV and the Royal Pavilion at a major exhibition of British royal portraits at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. As they would fund my trip, I … Continued
In the first of a series of guest posts by History of Art & Design students at the University of Brighton, Amy Matthews discusses the iconic Lambretta scooter and the story of the mods and rockers who fought in 1960s’ … Continued
One of my first projects as Museum Futures Trainee was to digitise and publish the Pavilion Review, the Royal Pavilion & Museums newsletter which ran from 1984 to 2008. This archive of 42 issues contains an incredible amount of insider … Continued
Last summer, I gave an interview to the British Forces Broadcasting Service about the Royal Pavilion’s use as an Indian military hospital during WW1. This was on the morning before the annual memorial service at the Chattri, which is held … Continued
As a Visitor Services Officer at the Royal Pavilion and Museums I hadn’t expected to be given the opportunity to work on such an exciting and significant fashion project. But with the Workforce Development Programme I was given such a … Continued
March’s plant was chosen by the Royal Pavilion Garden Volunteers, who help look after the gardens all year round. They picked the Narcissus Pseudonarcissus our native daffodil that Wordsworth wrote about in his famous poem ‘I wandered Lonely As A … Continued
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