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Self-portrait (with headband), Lee Miller Studios, Inc., New York, USA 1932 by Lee Miller

Lee Miller: Dressed

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See Lee Miller’s life and work through her clothing beginning in Paris in the late 1920s and ending in Sussex in the mid-1950s. It includes outfits that represent key moments in her biography and her creativity.
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Self-portrait (with headband), Lee Miller Studios, Inc., New York, USA 1932 by Lee Miller

Photography Club: Brighton & Hove

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

7 November to 12 December 2023
Interested in photography? Want to gain a Bronze Arts Award? Join Photoworks and Brighton & Hove Museums this autumn for a free programme of creative workshops for young people aged 13 – 16 led by award winning photographer Alejandra Carles-Tolra.
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Brighton Photo Club, Rachel Poulton. A group of young people stand along the seafront holding cameras, which point to the beach

Behind Closed Doors Tour – Ground Floor

Royal Pavilion & Garden

13 September to 13 December 2023
Have you ever wondered what lies behind all those closed doors in the Royal Pavilion?
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Kings Apartment, Royal Pavilion. Royal Pavilion, King's bedroom. To the right of the bed, you can make out a hidden door, known as a jib door, which led to the King’s water closet or lavatory. The jib door also leads to stairs that went up to the apartments of George’s last mistress, Lady Conyngham, in what is now part of the Royal Pavilion tearoom.

Christmas Carol Concert in The Royal Pavilion >>> SOLD OUT!

Royal Pavilion & Garden

14 December 2023
Join us in the sparkling Royal Pavilion for a special evening of Christmas carols performed by two talented Sussex based choirs.
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Music Room at the Royal Pavilion. The opulent room was commissioned by the then Prince George in 1815 and designed by John Nash ***Pic by David McHugh / Brighton Pictures

Christmas Banquets

Royal Pavilion & Garden

8 to 16 December 2023
The Royal Pavilion invites you to celebrate Christmas in regal splendour.
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Christmas Banquet at the Royal Pavilion, Image Brighton Pictures

Basement & Tunnel Tours

Royal Pavilion & Garden

5 September to 19 December 2023
Our popular Basement & Tunnel tours offer an unpolished, behind-the-scenes glimpse of areas of the building not normally open to the public.
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Tunnel tours at Royal Pavilion in Brighton ***Pic by David McHugh / Brighton Pictures

Behind Closed Doors Tour – Upper Chambers

Royal Pavilion & Garden

20 September to 20 December 2023
Join our guide to explore hidden rooms and spaces normally closed to the public.
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South Gallery, Royal Pavilion

Father Christmas

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Royal Pavilion & Garden

1 to 24 December 2023
Come and meet jolly Father Christmas in his magical grotto as he returns to the Royal Pavilion Estate.
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Father Christmas - photograph by JJ Waller

A Christmas Carol at Preston Manor 

Preston Manor & Gardens

9 to 31 December 2023
Experience Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale like you’ve never experienced it before.
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Preston Manor Christmas

Christmas Mice at Hove Museum

Hove Museum of Creativity

18 November 2023 to 1 January 2024
Upstairs in Hove Museum the Christmas mice have come out to play. How many can you find?
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In front of a fireplace, there is a pair of toy felt mice standing while above them, a toy black cat attentively observes.

Christmas Mice at Brighton Museum

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

18 November 2023 to 2 January 2024
The mischievous Christmas mice have scurried through the secret tunnel from the Royal Pavilion to Brighton Museum.
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toy mice concert

Christmas at the Royal Pavilion

Royal Pavilion & Garden

18 November 2023 to 2 January 2024
Step into a world of festive wonder as the popular Christmas at the Royal Pavilion returns for 2023.
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A member of the Royal Pavilion team is busy decorating a Christmas tree inside the great kitchen.

Christmas at the Booth Museum

Booth Museum of Natural History

2 December 2023 to 3 January 2024
Our recycled and reused Christmas returns to the Booth Museum this year.
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Christmas at the Booth with Ragnor Rosie Carrot Antlers the Reindeer

Royal Pavilion Ice Rink

Royal Pavilion & Garden

28 October 2023 to 7 January 2024
The UK’s most famous Christmas ice rink at Brighton’s Royal Pavilion is back.
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Ice rink with people skating in front of the Royal Pavilion which is lit up pink

World Above the Waves: Brighton’s Chain Pier

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

20 June 2023 to 14 January 2024
Fashionable society, shop keepers and Royal visitors are all remembered in this display of paintings, prints and ephemera.
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Illustration of the Brighton Chain Pier with people in the foreground.

Hongi's Hikoi: A Trio of Travellers

Royal Pavilion & Garden

15 January 2024
Discover the 1820 hikoi (journey) to England, and Australia by Hongi Hika and Thomas Kendall.
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A carved wooden bust of Hongi Hika

Humanity - The Outside In National Open Exhibition

Hove Museum of Creativity

25 November 2023 to 21 January 2024
Award-winning arts charity Outside In assists artists encountering significant barriers due to health, disability, social circumstance, or isolation.
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Old Bands, Michelle Roberts - Outside In exhibition

Life in a Garden

Booth Museum of Natural History

27 January 2024
Come and see the first diorama created for the museum in almost 100 years. Created by taxidermist Jazmine Miles-Long and designed by our under 10s audiences, this new diorama aims to reflect the wildlife we see around us every day in our modern city.
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Life in a garden

The Shining Lights of Service

Royal Pavilion & Garden

11 November 2023 to 28 January 2024
Artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE has created a new commission for the outside of the Royal Pavilion.
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Neon lights dragon installation

Meet the Taxidermist: Flora and Fauna of a Diorama

Booth Museum of Natural History

3 February 2024
What's in a diorama? Join us as we look at the flowers and plants of a diorama as well as the smaller creatures that make up the display.
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Jazmine-Miles-Long

Meet the Taxidermist: Discover our Diorama

Booth Museum of Natural History

3 February 2024
To celebrate the first new diorama to be built at the Booth Museum in nearly 100 years join us as we talk with ethical taxidermist Jazmine Miles-Long.
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Jazmine-Miles-Long

Hand Grenades Like Cartier Clips

The Old Courtroom

15 February 2024
This lavishly illustrated talk by Antony Penrose examines two genres that shaped the life of his mother, Lee Miller. 
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Lee Miller's son: Antony Penrose in the sitting room Farley Farm House East Sussex England by Tony Tree 2011

Creative Writing Club

Hove Museum of Creativity, Royal Pavilion & Garden

16 February 2024
Be inspired by our collections to create your own stories.
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pens

Lee Miller: Dressed

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

14 October 2023 to 18 February 2024
This exhibition examines Lee Miller’s life and work through her clothing beginning in Paris in the late 1920s and ending in Sussex in the mid-1950s, alongside her photography.
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Self-portrait (with headband), Lee Miller Studios, Inc., New York, USA 1932 by Lee Miller

Seeing See the Sea

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

22 February 2024
A gallery overview of this salty and sparkly collection of seaside-inspired art. Dip your toes in with exhibition co-curators, Nicola Coleby and Lucy Faithful.
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Kemp Town from the Sea 1840 by John Wilson Carmichael

Lino cutting workshop: Wildlife and Nature

Hove Museum of Creativity, Royal Pavilion & Garden

24 February 2024
Create and print from your own linocuts working from a range of visual aids that celebrate nature, ranging from paper print outs to 3D taxidermy birds from the Booth Museum.
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Lino cutting

Manga Drawing workshop: Japanese Yokai monsters with INKO

Hove Museum of Creativity

2 March 2024
Explore and draw supernatural Yokai characters in this workshop.  Inko will give step-by-step instructions on drawing some traditional favourites such as ‘Amabie’ and the prophet yokai ‘Kudan’.  You can also create your own manga-style Yokai! 
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Manga Yokai book

International Women’s Day

Booth Museum of Natural History

9 March 2024
Find out more about women scientists past and present who have helped shape our understanding of the world.
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Mary Merrifield

The Key to the Door

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

14 March 2024
Unlock the secrets of the past on a captivating journey through history with a curator’s insider perspective on historic keys.
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Clock tower key

Origami workshop: Farmyard Animals

Hove Museum of Creativity

16 March 2024
Get creative making fun farmyard animals during this guided workshop.
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Origami cow

Henry Willett’s Collection of Popular Pottery: From Brighton to the V&A

Royal Pavilion & Garden

21 March 2024
150 items from Henry Willet’s Collection of Popular Pottery are currently on loan from Brighton Museum to a new exhibition at the V&A.
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An object from the Willett Collection of Popular Pottery

Grass Baskets Workshop

Hove Museum of Creativity

23 March 2024
Learn how to make a small, coiled basket from wild Sussex grasses, perfect for storing eggs or other similar-sized objects. Led by artist/maker Ruby Taylor enjoy the mellow atmosphere that grass basket-making creates and learn which grasses are useful and how to process them.
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Grass Baskets

Behind Closed Doors Tour – Upper Chambers (Jan-Apr 24)

Royal Pavilion & Garden

10 January to 3 April 2024
Go behind the scenes and discover secret stairs that lead straight to George's bedside and other hidden rooms and spaces normally closed to the public.
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South Gallery, Royal Pavilion

ABBA win Eurovision!

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

6 April 2024
Join us in celebrating ABBA’s historic Eurovision win 50 years ago today.
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The pop group Abba congratulate each other in Brighton after winning the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with "Waterloo", sung by the girls, Annifrid Lyngstad (Frida), second left, and Agnetha Faltskog (Anna). The other group members, Benny Andersson, left, and Bjorn Ulvaeus, composed the song. 7th April 1974

Paint the Sea

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

13 February to 9 April 2024
Come and be inspired by our display See the Sea and paint a picture in the Fine Art Gallery.
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Easels set up in the Fine Art Gallery at Brighton Museum with adults and children painting

Art Club in Booth Museum of Natural History

Booth Museum of Natural History

14 February to 10 April 2024
Each week take inspiration from the Booth’s collection in these art & craft workshops.
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Art Club

Art Club in Hove Museum of Creativity

Hove Museum of Creativity

15 February to 11 April 2024
Each week take inspiration from Hove’s collection in these art & craft workshops. Join in with our theme or make your own artwork.  
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Art Club

Behind Closed Doors Tour – Ground Floor (Jan to Apr 24)

Royal Pavilion & Garden

24 January to 17 April 2024
Have you ever wondered what lies behind all those closed doors in the Royal Pavilion?
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Kings Apartment, Royal Pavilion. Royal Pavilion, King's bedroom. To the right of the bed, you can make out a hidden door, known as a jib door, which led to the King’s water closet or lavatory. The jib door also leads to stairs that went up to the apartments of George’s last mistress, Lady Conyngham, in what is now part of the Royal Pavilion tearoom.

Botanical Illustration workshop: Wild Flora of Sussex

Royal Pavilion & Garden

20 April 2024
Join professional botanical artist Leigh Ann Gale for this fascinating and informative one-day workshop.
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Botanical drawing by Leigh Ann Gale

Moo: When the Cows come Home

Hove Museum of Creativity

10 February to 21 April 2024
When the Cows come Home features rarely seen paintings from Brighton & Hove Museums Collection in which cows are the star attraction.
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Leading Cattle, Arthur Lemon

Enchanting April in a Regency Garden

Royal Pavilion & Garden

25 April 2024
Embrace the vibrant beauty of spring blooms in the Royal Pavilion’s restored Regency garden while gaining insider knowledge and expert tips from the Head Gardener.
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Spring in the Royal Pavilion

Basement & Tunnel Tours Jan to Apr 24

Royal Pavilion & Garden

9 January to 30 April 2024
Our popular Basement & Tunnel tours offer an unpolished, behind-the-scenes glimpse of areas of the building not normally open to the public.
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Tunnel tours at Royal Pavilion in Brighton ***Pic by David McHugh / Brighton Pictures

Clue Company – A Murder Mystery at the Manor

Preston Manor & Gardens

27 November 2023 - ongoing
Pier Pressure, Brighton’s award-winning escape rooms, presents a new puzzle solving adventure at Preston Manor – Clue Co, A Murder Mystery at the Manor.
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Clue Company logo

Burne-Jones: The Flower Book

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

16 January to 5 May 2024
This display showcases a series of small paintings inspired by the names of flowers that artist Edward Burne-Jones created towards the end of his life.
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Key-of-Spring-The-Flower-Book-Edward-Burne-Jones

 Spring at the Booth Museum

Booth Museum of Natural History

23 March to 19 June 2024
As the days get longer and the temperature gets warmer, we will find out more about the changing season, minibeasts and the life cycle of a butterfly with pop-up decorations, trails and activities.
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DIY paper butterfly displayed in the Booth Museum

ABBA: One Week in Brighton

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

28 March to 4 August 2024
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s Eurovision win at Brighton Dome on 6 April 1974. Walk, dance, and sing through ABBA’s visit to Brighton, through photographs, film, memories, and memorabilia and discover the week that catapulted the band to fame.
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ABBA Swedish Pop Group Winners of the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest Universal Pictorial Press Photo PPH 272585 05.04.1974

See the Sea

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

22 July 2023 to 31 August 2024
Sail through romantic seas and skies to views of today’s vibrant seafront.
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The West Pier, Brighton, is seen from about half way along it, looking landwards. The pier is thronged with figures in late Victorian dress. The seafront is seen from Preston Street to the Chain Pier at far right. Fishing boats at sea in right foreground

Queer the Pier

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

31 January 2020 - ongoing
Plunge into the history of Brighton & Hove's LGBTQIA+ communities.
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Jacket with numerous badges.

Finding Faberge

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

2 November 2021 - ongoing
Forgotten Fabergé revealed.
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Constable's Colliers Unloading on Hove Beach

Royal Pavilion & Garden

15 July 2022 - ongoing
An unseen masterpiece by John Constable unveiled.
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Oil painting showing three ships on a beach