Our new exhibition in Hove Museum is a retrospective of a local artist, Patrick Burke. Thanks to Latest TV you can watch Andrew Polmear, a collector and friend of Burke, discussing the artist and the exhibition. Below, you can also … 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
Martina Bellotto introduces the Art of Puppetry display at Hove Museum. Facebook Live video stream from 5 June 2017.
Christopher Stevens of the University of Brighton discusses the final year work of students at Hove Museum. Facebook Live video stream from 12 January 2018.
Some of the magic of the film The Snowman and the Snowdog has been called into service along the streets of Brighton & Hove by local artists and children. The Snowdogs by the Sea project is raising funds for Martlets Hospice using the iconic … Continued
For me, a highlight of working with museum collections is the little ‘side alley’ of information I can often find myself disappearing down. In my current role as collection assistant I am working with material from the Barnes Collection of film-related … Continued
Looking for a free way to entertain your children? Gallery assistant Martina Bellotto shows how Hove Museum’s Birds of a Feather exhibition can bring art and natural history together to provide a source of creative inspiration. For kids, what … Continued
There was no alternative. I had to sit down on the floor and look a little longer. A photo by a group of Brighton youngsters and German photographer Jan Von Holleben had me stumped. Called The Amazing Analogue: How we … Continued
A letter home was often the final link to a son or husband missing or killed in action during the First World War. While researching for ‘War Stories: Voices from the First World War’, I saw a number of these … Continued
Hove Museum, a Tuesday in May 2014 What is a museum for? Who needs them? Why do we pay taxes for them? Who cares? There are probably dozens of academic dissertations, Government white papers and museum conferences analysing all … Continued
Earlier this week it was dressing up day for my children at school. They are at junior school and this term, like many other school children across Europe, they’re studying the First World War. They’ve been asked to dress up as … Continued
The current Turner in Brighton exhibition in the Royal Pavilion reveals some of the views of Brighton produced by J M W Turner when he stayed in the town, such as his 1824 watercolour, Brighthelmston, Sussex. But where did Turner stay … Continued
It’s taking me ages to finish my blog entry about the beautiful Into The Blue colour-themed exhibition at Hove Museum and Gallery. So in the meantime, here’s a bluey Spotify playlist inspired by it. 1. Drever McCusker Woomble – Into … Continued
Have you been enjoying the summer? Sky high temperatures, paddling in the sea and relaxing with an ice cream, we’re finally able to enjoy the outdoors again after a very long winter. But the heat has its dangers. Most of … Continued
My favourite section of Hove Museum & Art Gallery is the children’s toy collection upstairs. Not because of how informative or cute it is but because it’s terrifying. Never mind the stuff in pickle jars in the Booth Museum, if … Continued
Brighton has often been struck by heavy storms, but the one that lingers in living memory for many people is the Great Storm of 1987. 25 years ago, on the night between 15 and 16 October, freakishly strong winds raged … Continued
The display of Robert Goff’s etchings and watercolours in the Prints and Drawings Gallery of Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (until 27 April 2012) shows what a peripatetic lifestyle Goff led and how much he enjoyed travelling. However, he seems … Continued
Staff at the Royal Pavilion & Museums celebrated a series of truly amazing announcements and events last week making it one of the most memorable in the service’s history. Read on to discover how the Beach Boys, Queen Victoria, the … 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
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