Hastings
Museum & Art Gallery
Bohemia
Road, Hastings, East Sussex
Hastings
Museum and Art Gallery contains a rich and exotic
mixture of fine paintings and china, the cultures
of other lands and a contrasting view of local wildlife
today and as it would have been 150 million years
ago.
There
are plenty of special features for children with
fossils that transform into dinasaurs, a diorama
of local animals, two Native American Galleries
complete with tipi and buffalo and a display
on the Hastings-born conservationist Grey
Owl. Television pioneer, John Logie
Baird, made his technical breakthrough
in Hastings and this is the subject of a display
on television history.
The
most spectacular part of the museum is the magnificent
Durbar Hall, constructed for the
Indian and Colonial Exhibition of 1886, which contains
the Museum's fascinating collections of Asian and
Australasian material. These displays are currently
beign updated, with the addition of new material
from the reserve collection.
A
Local Studies Research Room was
opened in October 2000. This much improved facility
provides access to the Borough's archives.
Tel: 01424
781166
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