History of Hove Museum & Art Gallery
Hove Museum & Art Gallery is housed in a Victorian villa, built during
the 1870s for John Oliver Vallance. The architect Thomas Lainson designed
the house in an Italianate style made popular by Queen Victoria's Isle of
Wight residence Osborne House.
John Oliver died in 1893, but his widow continued to live in the villa
until 1913. During the First World War the building was used to house German
Prisoners of War and in 1923 it was converted into flats. Finally in 1926
it was purchased by Hove Corporation for use as a museum for £4,000.
The museum opened to the public on 2 February 1927.
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