Filming and Photography

Our venues have been the location for many filming and photographic events.

We welcome professional photographers and filmmakers throughout the year. We offer a mix of outside locations and interiors that can suit a range of productions from fashion shoots to historical dramas.

The Royal Pavilion in particular has featured in many well-known feature films and popular TV shows.

Our locations:

• Royal Pavilion: discover Regency opulence and experience jaw dropping interiors designed to take your breath away. The influence of Chinoiserie, luxurious dining, dramatic saloon and music rooms, royal bedrooms and dragons, all create a grand, unusual but versatile backdrop to your project or production.
• Royal Pavilion Garden: a historic Grade II listed garden and one of the few remaining Regency gardens in the country. Whether you’re promenading through the florals or requiring a backdrop of stunning regal opulence, this space can be intimate or palatial depending on your needs.
• Preston Manor & Gardens: a versatile filming and photography location with its grand Edwardian interiors, servant quarters, and picturesque gardens—ideal for period dramas. With an authentic upstairs-downstairs feel, beautiful walled gardens and a hint of ghostly intrigue, it brings history and atmosphere to any project.
• Booth Museum of Natural History: a unique location with its striking Victorian dioramas, atmospheric gallery of bones, and a charming period parlour. Perfect for historical settings or evocative, moody scenes, it’s a space rich in character and intrigue.
• Hove Museum of Creativity in Brooker Hall, inspired by Queen Victoria’s Osborne House, offers a stunning Victorian home setting. With its elegant rooms and rich history as the former residence of a prominent local family, it provides a captivating backdrop for period dramas and creative shoots.
• Brighton Museum & Art Gallery: a diverse and historic filming location, with multiple gallery spaces including an Archaeology Gallery showcasing Brighton & Hove’s earliest residents, alongside collections of fashion, performance, art, and Egyptology. Set in a stunning Georgian building, remodelled in the 1870s, it’s perfect for shoots that need history, art, and character.

Each of our sites are perfectly unique for a stunning backdrop or story, whilst our collections have played key roles in bringing beloved CGI characters to life.

All Filming and Photography requests at Brighton & Hove Museums are dealt with by the Marketing Office.

Our current facility fees are available on request. Large-scale feature filming and location work is charged on a case-by-case basis.

For more information

Telephone 0300 0290900 and select option 5 for Marketing Team

Email marketing@rpmt.org.uk

We are honoured to have been chosen as the backdrop for multiple professional, private, charitable and sporting events. Among which include,

Photography & Press Events

• FIFA Women’s World Cup Trophy Tour (2023)
• Fatboy Slim and Peter Lord promotion for Shaun by the Sea. Royal Pavilion William IV Room (2022)
• Rag n Bone Man photoshoot for Gresham Blake in Preston Manor The Cleves Room (2019)
• War Horse promotion in the Royal Pavilion Music Room (2017)
• Kate Mosse (author) promotion for The Taxidermist’s Daughter at the Booth Museum (2015)
• Ronan Keating for Mail on Sunday / Living Magazine (2011)
• Nick Cave photoshoot for Mojo magazine in the Royal Pavilion (2008)
• Cate Blanchett photoshoot for Harpers Bazaar in the Royal Pavilion Music Room (2005)
• Scissor Sisters: Return to Oz documentary, directed by Julien Temple (2004)

Film projects include

• Harry Styles: My Policeman (2022)
• Benedict Cumberbatch, Nicholas Hoult: The Current War (2017)
• Donald Sutherland, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hollander: Land of the Blind (2006)
• Ralph Fiennes and Julian Moore: The End of the Affair (1999)
• Ian Mckellan, Annette Benning, Maggie Smith, Robert Downey Jr: Richard III (1995)
• Barbara Streisand: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

Television

• The Sandman series 2 (2025)
• Chris Packham The One Show (2024)
• The Apprentice (2023)
• Grace Series 4, Want You Dead (2023)
• The Royals A History of Scandals (2023)
• Great British Menu (2022)
• The Great series 2 (2022)
• Angela Rippon’s Brighton by the Book (2021)
• Royal History Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (2020)
• Hairy Bikers: Everyday Gourmet (2012)

Music or promotional filming

• Christina Perri (2012)
• NERD (Pharrell Williams) (2008)

The architecture of the Royal Pavilion has inspired many artists, filmmakers and designers