Event Category Archives: Bite-Size Museum

Bite-size Museum: Walk Like an Egyptian

Pop-up short talks and closer looks at stories from our eclectic collections led by Royal Pavilion & Museums staff. Perfect for lunch-time!

Learn about how the Victorians and Edwardians explored Egypt – in three glorious dimensions! Visitor Services Officer Naomi Daw brings early travel photography into focus.

Bite-size Museum: Framing Fashion display

Pop-up short talks and closer looks at stories from our eclectic collections led by Royal Pavilion & Museums staff. Perfect for lunch-time!

Join Rachel Heminway-Hurst, Curator of World Art for a special first peek at the new display about African Fashion Photography, just as Black History Month gets started.

Bite-size Museum: Preston Manor and the Brighton Hops Project

Pop-up short talks and closer looks at stories from our eclectic collections led by Royal Pavilion & Museums staff. Perfect for lunch-time!

Preston Manor volunteer, student and artist Matt Redman tells us about the Brighton Hops Growing Project, based in the Preston Manor walled garden. Working closely with the garden team whilst exploring the letters and photography archives at Preston Manor, Matt shares stories about useful plants, creativity and the imaginative use of space.

Bite-size Museum: Willett Gallery

Pop-up short talks and closer looks at stories from our eclectic collections led by Royal Pavilion & Museums staff. Perfect for lunch-time!

Clare Hartfield (Visitor Services Officer) will talk about a specific piece on display in the Willett Gallery (details to follow). 

Bite-size Museum: Storytelling session for families

Pop-up short talks and closer looks at stories from our eclectic collections led by Royal Pavilion & Museums staff. Perfect for lunch-time!

Bring the children along to this storytelling session with Karen Antoni. Themes for the stories will be inspired by our current exhibitions, which include original illustrations from Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman™ as well as a beautifully painted squirrel in the new Holbein exhibition.

Bite-size Museum: Brighton War Memorial, Old Steine

Pop-up short talks and closer looks at stories from our eclectic collections led by Royal Pavilion & Museums staff. Perfect for lunch-time!

Join Dan Robertson, Curator of Local History & Archaeology, to find out more about Brighton’s Old Steine war memorial built in 1922 to the design of architect John William Simpson.

Bite-size Museum: Stories of Sustainability

Pop-up short talks and closer looks at stories from our eclectic collections led by Royal Pavilion & Museums staff. Perfect for lunch-time!

Nature has been drawn on as a resource to create things to meet humans’ essential needs, wants and desires. Today the materials used might either be considered sustainable or not; nature has also inspired those who have created the items. This talk will explore this theme through some of the objects in the Royal Pavilion & Museums collections. With Museum Director, Janita Bagshawe.

Bite-size Museum: Once Upon a Time…

Pop-up short talks and closer looks at stories from our eclectic collections led by Royal Pavilion & Museums staff. Perfect for lunch-time!

Discover objects from our Toy Collection once owned by the authors of some of our most famous and well-loved children’s books. Find out about the inspiration behind Paddington, the Flower Fairies, Alice in Wonderland, Little Grey Rabbit, Paddington and Mole. With Collections Assistant Joy Whittam.

Bite-size Museum: Brighton’s starlings

Pop-up short talks and closer looks at stories from our eclectic collections led by Royal Pavilion & Museums staff. Perfect for lunch-time!

Learn all about Brighton’s star bird, the starling, and their mesmerising murmurations with Dr Rachel White from the University of Brighton.

Bite-size Museum: Hans Holbein

Pop-up short talks and closer looks at stories from our eclectic collections led by Royal Pavilion & Museums staff. Perfect for lunch-time!

Join Curator of Fine Art, Jenny Lund for a talk about Hans Holbein the Younger and the magnificent A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (Anne Lovell?) painting on display in the National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2018.

Bite-size Museum: Life in Miniature

Pop-up short talks and closer looks at stories from our eclectic collections led by Royal Pavilion & Museums staff. Perfect for lunch-time!

Hear the story of the 18th century dolls house Scadbury Manor and its contents, and have a unique chance to get up close to an impressive and significant object from our Toy Collection, owned by one family over five generations. With Collections Assistant Joy Whittam and Visitor Services Officer Clare Hartfield.

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