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New Galleries at Hove Museum & Art Gallery

The Toy Gallery is a magical Wizard's Attic where highlights include dolls, teddies, a working train set, a workshop for broken toys and a bedroom split by time.

Find out more about the Toy collection here

 

 


Toy Gallery showing the workshop for broken toys

 


Display of rare apparatus in the Film Gallery

 

 

Hove's role in the birth of cinema is explored in the interactive Film Gallery. Visitors find out how film was invented through a display of working optical toys, magic lanterns and cameras. Film is shown in an area which explores the flourishing of cinema in Brighton & Hove. Visitors are also be able to learn about Hove Pioneers of Film through displays of rare apparatus.

Find out more about the Media and Film collection here

 

The story of Hove and Portslade from prehistoric times to the present day is explored in the Local History Gallery. Displays feature Hove's famous prehistoric Amber Cup and investigate Roman settlement at West Blatchington, Norman manors and churches, Hangleton's early medieval village, the Regency development of Brunswick and the growth of Victorian and twentieth century Hove.

Find out more about the Local History Collection here

 

 
Local History Gallery

 


Paintings Gallery

 

The Paintings Gallery features changing displays of the museum's fine art collection. Visitors are able to find out about pictures that are not on display through a computerised image catalogue.

Find out more about the Fine Art collection here

 

 
Photographs on this page taken by Rob Sanderson, Talbot Photography.
 

 

   

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