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Rediscover the magic of childhood at the Brighton Toy and Model Museum 🚂🧸

We’re open this half term and throughout the summer:
Tuesday to Friday: 10 am–5 pm
Saturday: 11 am–5 pm

Come and make new memories – or relive old ones! 💫

#BrightonMuseum #FamilyDayOut #ToyMuseum

August 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM

Pauline Loven

@paulineloven.bsky.social

Love the Passementerie details on this walking dress
“worn by Katherine Farebrother. After the death of her second husband in 1913 Farebrother went into into mourning storing all her fashionable clothing in a trunk. The trunk was discovered by a family member 63 years later”.
#BrightonMuseum

1910s walking outfit in slate gray with black and brown passementerie trim

December 20, 2024 at 12:08 PM

Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

“Self Portrait with the Artist's Parents” by Veronica Burleigh (British) - Oil on canvas / c 1937 - Brighton Museum (United Kingdom) #womeninart #womanartist #femalertist #art #oilpainting #womensart #VeronicaBurleigh #Burleigh #BrightonMuseum #fineart #Brighton&HoveMuseums #selfportrait #BritishArt

This painting depicts three people, a man and two women, outdoors engaged in artistic endeavors.

The man, with short, graying hair, is dressed in a dark blue shirt, trousers, and appears to be using a painting palette. The older woman wears a red sweater and light green hat, stretched out on an olive-green coat painting at an easel. Standing between them holding paint supplies under her arm is a younger woman staring at us behind sunglasses while wearing a chic white dress.

It is hard to imagine a more idyllic vision of a family painting holiday. Dad happy with pipe and brush, mum, a picture of contentment in sensible sun hat and daughter adding a touch of Hollywood glamour.

The year was 1937 and the young woman in the white dress is Veronica Burleigh with her mother Averil and father Charles. By this time, all three were professional painters and longstanding exhibitors at the Royal Academy.

Veronica was born in 1909 in a house purpose built for art. Her parents had designed 7 Wilbury Crescent in Hove with the family business in mind. After studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1927–30, under Henry Tonks, Burleigh exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA), Sussex Women’s Art Club (SWA) and with the Sussex Painters, at Worthing, where the public gallery holds her work. Her famous art includes Little Ballet Dancers, Scene Painters and Calliope.

During World War II, she served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. Burleigh’s work was mainly portraits until 1970, when she moved into the country, living at Henfield, Sussex. For 20 years, she commuted yearly to Rhodesia, where she held 23 one-person shows.

The family exhibited 96 times at the Royal Academy – Averil (54), Charles (27) and Veronica (15).

Charles died in 1956, at 87, outliving Averil who had a fatal heart attack in 1949, at 66. The glamorous Veronica, a devotee of fast cars and gardening, never married, but, after an adventurous life, returned to Sussex where she passed away in 1998 at 89.

April 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM

Kupala Brighton

@kupalabrighton.bsky.social

Deep time travel with @mattpope.bsky.social and Vio Korbina, connecting the local Ukrainian community with local landscapes. Thanks so much to Matt and Vio, to Stand4Ukraine B&H, and to the lovely #BrightonMuseum people for the warm welcome to the archaeology gallery 💙💛

Vio Korbina translates Dr Matt Pope for Ukrainian visitors to Brighton Museum's archaeology gallery, Ice Age section.

Vio Korbina translates Dr Matt Pope for Ukrainian visitors to Brighton Museum's archaeology gallery, Neolithic section.

January 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM

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@zeetha.bsky.social

Really enjoyed the new @officialbha.bsky.social gallery at #brightonmuseum - and not just because it unexpectedly had a picture of me in it! 🤣 #bhafc

September 12, 2026 at 2:30 PM

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@zeetha.bsky.social

Always something interesting to see at #brightonmuseum and #royalPavilion - today Christmas trees and mice, a dark forest and a little bit of #bhafc memorabilia 😁

Christmas tree decorated with music scrolls with presents underneath in the music room at the Royal Pavilion

Mice models with clothes on in a mini living room scene at the Royal Pavilion

Metal forest with cut out animals in a corridor at Brighton Museum

BHAFC memorabilia of a football, boots and a shirt at Brighton museum

November 23, 2024 at 1:23 PM

Brighton Toy and Model Museum

@brightontoymuseum.bsky.social

Rediscover the magic of childhood at the Brighton Toy and Model Museum 🚂🧸

We’re open this half term and throughout the summer:
Tuesday to Friday: 10 am–5 pm
Saturday: 11 am–5 pm

Come and make new memories – or relive old ones! 💫

#BrightonMuseum #FamilyDayOut #ToyMuseum

May 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM

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@zeetha.bsky.social

New lovely and colourful mural in #BrightonMuseum 😁 Just a shame it's hard to get a full picture as its in a corridor!

December 11, 2024 at 8:48 PM

Richard Drew #MDANT

@ourmanincairo.bsky.social

Anyone on here have a contact for #brightonmuseum ? / Brighton Fringe?

I worked on this show back in 93 - look at the names on the bill! , just as Comedy became the new Rock ‘n’ Roll.

I have 2 copies, so would like to donate one.

#comedy #meridiantv #brighton @brightonfringe.bsky.social #comedy