After over a year of pandemic enforced closure, the Booth Museum will re-open on the 30th July. It first opened to the public back in 1891, after being bequeathed to the city by its founder Edward Thomas Booth. Booth was … Continued
Delving into the Booth Museum libraries we uncover the beautiful bird drawings of Victorian illustrator, Edward Neale. Neale illustrated Edward Thomas Booth’s published diaries. The main legacy that Edward Booth (1840-1890) left to the town of Brighton was his famous … Continued
At the Booth Museum our insect displays were originally built in the early 1980s. Since then the objects have been enjoyed by many thousands of visitors. However, the scale of the displays, the difficulty in accessing the cabinets and the … Continued
I went to the legendary Booth Museum yesterday and I will certainly be going back some more during my Blogger-in-Residence time. I had ‘the tour’ from Keeper John Cooper and it was every bit as fascinating as promised. I’ve mulled … Continued
Edward Thomas Booth amassed a large collection of British birds in the 19th century. He built a museum in 1874 to house his collection, displaying each of the birds in a series of dioramas. He bequeathed the collection and museum to … Continued
By the time the Booth Museum was built in 1874 Brighton had three established taxidermy companies and the Museum has examples from all three in its collections. The history of taxidermy is told, in part, through the exhibition ‘Life in … Continued
The single most important source of information about Booth’s collection is the publication “Catalogue of the Cases of Birds in the Dyke Road Museum, Brighton”. This was written by Booth with additional notes by Arthur Foster Griffith. The catalogue states that … Continued
Solicitor, Author, Museum owner, Collector. The Booth Museum biographical archive has numerous items relating to Frederick William Lucas. These include nine original photographs of his Rottingdean Museum, his original hand written catalogue, a photographic portrait of him and a letter … Continued
Solicitor, Alderman, Naturalist, Collector. Arthur Foster Griffith was the son of Dr Griffith, the popular head master of Brighton College, and the brother of the well-known Egyptologist, Francis Llewellyn Griffith. Griffith donated significant quantities of objects to Brighton Museum & Art Gallery many … Continued
The Booth Museum in Brighton has been in existence since 1874 when it was simply the Booth Museum of Birds. 100 years later, during the 1970s, it became the Booth Museum of Natural History when the science collections from Brighton Museum … Continued
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