Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Royal Pavilion Gardens
Brighton & Hove
East Sussex
BN1 1EE
England
Website
www.brighton-hove-museums.org.uk
visitor.services@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Telephone
03000 290900
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, with its rich and diverse collections, creates a vibrant cultural centre in and around the Royal Pavilion estate in the heart of the city of Brighton & Hove.
Dynamic and innovative galleries provide greatly improved access to the Museum's nationally and locally important collections. Objects are displayed in stimulating contexts with a wide range of interpretative techniques, including interactive information technology. Improved facilities include: the Museum entrance in the Royal Pavilion gardens with a spacious foyer and shop; improved disabled access; education facilities with an art room and a dedicated education 'pavilion'. The Museum has worked with community groups to broaden access to its collections and services. A Hindu shrine in the World Art gallery created with the local Gujarati community, and oral histories of local people are examples of these collaborations.
This museum has a Designated Collection of national importance.
Venue Type:
Museum, Gallery
The World Art collection at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery is a Designated Collection of national importance.
The Designated collections of non-western art and anthropology include particularly fine textile collections, such as the Green Collection from Burma.
Part of Brighton & Hove Museums' Designated Collection of Decorative Art, which you can also see at Preston Manor, Hove Museum & Art Gallery and Brighton Pavilion, is on display here. Please contact Brighton Museums for more information if you wish to see a specific item.
The collections of decorative arts include the Regency furniture and silver-gilt displayed in the Royal Pavilion, the Macquoid furniture at Preston Manor, the Willett Collection of ceramics illustrating popular history, and outstanding holdings of British and European 20th century decorative design and craft.
Highlights at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery include the nationally important collections of 20th Century Art & Design, Fashion, Paintings, Ceramics and World Art.
Collection details
World Cultures, Trade and Commerce, Toys and Hobbies, Sport, Social History, Religion, Personalities, Performing Arts, Maritime, Land Transport, Fine Art, Film and Media, Design, Decorative and Applied Art, Costume and Textiles, Archaeology
Key artists and exhibits
- Designated Collection
Chilled to the Bone: Ice Age Sussex
Using the Royal Pavilion & Museums natural history and archaeology collections this new display explores the ice age. More relevant than ever today, the ice ages throughout Earth’s history can help to indicate what effect climate change could have on our modern world, and how those changes could impact on our future.
Ice ages are also intrinsically linked to the story of man, as we have only existed while ice has been present at the poles. The display looks at how ice has driven our evolution, why we have survived whilst the Neanderthals perished, and what the disappearance of ice from the poles could mean for our survival.
The display also tells the fascinating story of the Victorian 'great bone rush', an intensive search by scientists and gentleman collectors across Europe, looking for the origins of modern humans. Sussex was often at the centre of this search, from early archaeological discoveries of tools, to the controversy of the Piltdown forgery, and finally the discovery of Boxgrove Man, the oldest known human ancestors in Britain.
Suitable for
- Any age
Where
Spotlight Gallery
Admission
Free admission
Chilled to the Bone: Ice Age Sussex
The display also tells of the Victorian era of desperate exploration into the evolution of humans and will include the infamous story of Piltdown Man, the biggest anthropological hoax of the 20th century. www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
Free
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