Video Archive: the pet cemetery at Preston Manor
Paula Wrightson conducts a guided tour of Preston Manor’s pet cemetery. Facebook Live video stream from 7 September 2017.
The Big Butterfly Count in Royal Pavilion Gardens: ‘Take Nature’s Pulse’
The Big Butterfly Count is a nationwide survey aimed at helping to assess the health of our environment. It launched in 2010 and has rapidly become the largest survey of butterflies in the world! Brighton Museum needs your help to assess … Continued
Image Gallery: Art in the Garden, 30 June 2017
Last Friday, several local artists gathered to capture the Royal Pavilion garden through painting and drawing, inspired by our Visions of the Royal Pavilion Estate display in Brighton Museum. Sadly, it proved to be one of the wettest days of … Continued
Collaborate and Celebrate: Help us shape our ‘Queer Looks’ exhibition
Queer Looks will be a new exhibition opening in Summer 2018 displaying outfits, photographs and film which reflect the extraordinary lives of LGBTQ residents. We need you to help us shape this exhibition by bringing clothes to Brighton Museum that tell your stories through sexual or gender identity. Queer Looks at … Continued
Murder, vampires, and bricked-up nuns: Preston Manor’s intriguing garden walls
Possibly the most dramatic thing a wall can do is fall down – all the more so if the wall abuts a churchyard and its fall exposes ancient graves. Drama may also be found if the wall contains gruesome information … Continued
Witchcraft and Weddings at Preston Manor
For this year’s national Volunteers’ Week, Jennifer Milarski-Stermšek writes about how volunteering at Preston Manor inspired her to choose it as the venue for her Pagan wedding ceremony last year. I have always found volunteering to be a rewarding and … Continued
Unlocking the MuseumLab doors: rarely seen Robert Goff etchings from our stores
In Brighton Museum this week we are once again unlocking our MuseumLab doors to give you the chance to view rarely seen objects from our collections. Every week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons from 2-5pm visitors can meet curators … Continued
A moth eaten blog post by a consumed Assistant Conservator
Why am I so interested in moths? Well, I find insects fascinating, beautiful and ingenious; but I also happen to care for the Royal Pavilion & Museums’ collections with the help of a great team of colleagues and volunteers. As … Continued
Last chance to see a beautiful community group art exhibition
Cool off this Bank Holiday Weekend in Brighton Museum and be inspired by the wonderful artwork created by the local community group ‘Museum Mentors’. The Museum Mentors members manage various challenges associated with disability and have been meeting together with … Continued
John Constable and Brighton’s ‘beautiful and splendid cabinet of the arts’
As part of our Regency Season of exhibitions and events, we have been looking at life in Brighton in the early 1800s. In this post, Royal Pavilion curator Alexandra Loske looks at an early picture gallery that may have been … Continued
Royal guests at Preston Manor
Her Majesty the Queen turns 91 on 21 April and so to mark this event I am looking back to a day in her younger life when she visited Preston Manor. When I give guided tours of the house people … Continued
Digital Review 2016-17
As part of our current round of Arts Council England grant funding, I’m required to write an annual review of our digital activity. Last year this took the form of a 33 page data heavy document which included not only … Continued
Familiar yet Strange: Humphry Repton’s Royal Pavilion Estate in 3D
Earlier this year I posted about our work with 3D digital technology, and how you would be able to see more examples this year. To accompany our Visions of the Royal Pavilion Estate exhibition which opened in Brighton Museum last … Continued
International Women’s Day celebrations at Brighton Museum
On Wednesday 8 March, people of the world threw their fists in the air for International Women’s Day – a day that has been celebrated since 1909 to commemorate the movement for women’s rights. We couldn’t not have a celebration … Continued
Taking down Fashion Cities Africa
Since Fashion Cities Africa closed its doors for the final time on 8 January, it’s been a busy month. Deconstructing a major exhibition is no mean feat! The take-down began with the mass ordering of all the kit required for … Continued
A Regency Feast: a Banquet held at the Royal Pavilion for Grand Duke Nicolas of Russia, 18 January 1817
For many of us, January is a time to cut down on food and drink following the excesses of Christmas. This was clearly not the case for the Prince Regent. 200 years ago, Prince George hosted Grand Duke Nicolas of … Continued
Sister Agnes: a buried secret at Preston Manor?
On 28 January, we’ll be opening up the cold case of a body found at Preston Manor over a century ago. In this post, Paula Wrightson, Venue Officer at Preston Manor, introduces the mystery of ‘Sister Agnes’. Mysterious Case of … Continued
New Year, New Dimension: the Royal Pavilion Estate in VR
It’s always good to kick off a New Year with something new, so I’m delighted to introduce the Royal Pavilion & Museums first venture into virtual reality (VR). Volunteer 3D modeller Colin Jones has produced a model of the Royal … Continued
A look back at our Workforce Development conference
Last month we welcomed almost 40 delegates from museums across the UK to join us in Brighton for our first ever conference on Workforce Development (WFD). The conference was inspired by a successful initiative at Royal Pavilion & Museums (RPM) … Continued
Photo-punk: making an idea a reality
As a communications officer for Royal Pavilion & Museums, I’m always thinking about our audiences and how we address their needs and interests. So when the UK punk movement, which I have a personal interest in, started to gear up … Continued
