British fashion icon Barbara Hulanicki was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List. All of us here at Royal Pavilion & Museums who are currently working on the exhibition Biba and Beyond would like to send her … Continued
In the lead up to our People’s Palace Open Day on 22 January 2011, we will be posting material relating to the often forgotten history of the Royal Pavilion as a civic building. This is the first of three posts … Continued
Now that Christmas is over, many of us are looking forward to the New Year. With the Queen celebrating her Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and our Princess Charlotte exhibition opening in the Royal Pavilion in March, royalty will be a … Continued
Had you considered for Christmas to look at Ruscus aculeatus. Fit for a book. The red berries so jolly Outshine the more usual holly. Growing well in the Royal Pavilion gardens, In beds A, B, C and T with its … Continued
On 19 December 1968, Dorothy Stringer was granted Freedom of the Borough of Brighton. She was only the second woman to have been honoured in this way but, given her record of service to the town, it must have come … Continued
If there’s one word that definitely applies to my job then it’s ‘varied’. One glance through my daily ‘Things to Do’ lists of the last couple of months reveals a whole host of miscellaneous items: ‘Book Bollywood dancer’, ‘Build giant … Continued
The nativity scene shown here is a Russian icon dating from the 19th century. It is part of a small collection of icons bequeathed to Brighton Museum & Art Gallery in 1967 by Miss Edith Overton Wybergh, whose father was … Continued
Saturday 19 November launched the lead-up to next year’s Jeff Keen exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, with a day of talks at the Old Courtroom. Arranged as part of this year’s Brighton Film Festival, Cinecity, the day was … Continued
… Gerald Legg, Keeper of Natural Sciences Fossil Human Teeth We get all kinds of enquiries and this one was particularly unusual. A member of the public ‘phoned saying they had hundreds of teeth embedded in stone in their garden, forming part … Continued
Mr Watt, the Grumpy Man of Metal was exhibited at Hove Museum for most of 2011. Mr Watt and his strange inventions are the work of artist-craftsman Jon Mills who has laid out Mr Watt’s disastrous exploits in a series … Continued
…Kevin Bentman, Visitor Services Officer I have been working for the council for over 10 years now at three local buildings, Preston Manor, the Booth Museum of Natural History and Hove Museum & Art Galleries. The Visitor Services Officers are … Continued
This atmospheric image is an etching from the early 1890s showing Brighton’s Metropole Hotel at dusk. Gas lights line the promenade and the bridge to the West Pier, creating silhouettes of people enjoying an evening walk. Look closely and you … Continued
During the week of 7 – 11 November 2011, the Booth Museum was closed for a well needed spruce up. The plan for the week was for staff from across Brighton Museum service to descend upon the Booth Museum and give it … Continued
Update 22 December 2011: The clip of Chris’s answers has now been uploaded to You Tube. Original post: Our Robot Invasion! exhibition at Hove Museum has proven very popular, and is enjoyed by adults and children alike. The collection comes … Continued
On Tuesday afternoon, there was again a good attendance at the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, where Mr Oscar Wild lectured on “The Value of Art in Modern Life.” The subject was treated with remarkable ability, with great freshness of thought, … Continued
A silver bowl or ‘Loving Cup’ has recently been presented to Brighton & Hove Museums through the Art Fund. It is modelled in the Arts & Crafts style, and was hallmarked for Edward Jones of Birmingham in 1912. The first … Continued
The Royal Pavilion is hosting an event to celebrate Oscar Wilde’s visit to the Pavilion in November 1884. On the two consecutive evenings of November 17th and 18th 1884, he gave lectures on the subjects of “Dress” and “The Value of Art in … Continued
Charles Plumier named the Fuchsia in 1702 in honour of the renowned botanist Leonhart Fuchs whose work on medicinal plants, published in 1542, he much admired. This was one of Plumier’s finds that he brought back to Paris from his … Continued
Few people have been as closely associated with the cultural life of Brighton in the early 20th century as Henry D Roberts, who moved to the town in 1906 and was involved with our public library, museums and art galleries … Continued
Pearce’s Brighton Guide set out to woo the potential tourist with its bright orange cover, coloured street map, and its illustrations of the Old Steine and the Royal Pavilion. It assumed that the modern traveller would arrive by railway and … Continued
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