Hove Museum Refresh
A huge thank you to all our staff who have been working hard at Hove Museum of Creativity over the last few weeks. A huge amount has been achieved and we hope our visitors will be able to see the impact of the many, many hours people have put in.
Among the areas receiving a little tlc were
- A new and beautifully, calming, Spring like exhibition Moo: When the Cows come Home has been installed featuring some of the many cow paintings we have in the collection.
- In Gallery 2 the curatorial team has worked together to showcase some amazing cow-inspired objects from across all of our collections in a return of the display What’s In the Box?
- The Gallery also now features paintings of famous Hove landmarks past and present, and a new dedicated visitor feedback point for both adults and children so you can tell us what else you would like to see.
- VSOs have worked tirelessly spring cleaning and sorting both back-of-house and front-of-house areas so Hove is gleaming, whilst endlessly answering doors, finding keys and generally assisting staff.
- The shop has been restocked and now features a range of fantastic cow-related products.
- Decorators have repainted galleries and spruced up high-traffic areas such as corridors.
- Our technicians have managed to repair the film reels in the film gallery, the broken interactive in the local history gallery and the mechanical toy film in the toy gallery.
- The amber cup exhibit has been reinstated with the replica amber cup in situ as well as tactile archaeology interactives.
- Optical toy gallery interactives have been returned to the film galleries and the cinema seats have been reupholstered.
- All galleries have been dusted at height, brushed down, tops of cases and plinths cleaned, and open display objects cleaned.
- New lights have been installed in all cases in the Wizard’s Attic and the train track has been uncovered.
- New lighting has also been installed in the film and craft galleries.
- And of course lots of tea has been drunk and biscuits eaten and it was great to have an opportunity for a cross section of staff working so closely!
Hove Museum of Creativity has now reopened. Do pop along to see the improvements and let us know what you think.
