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Hastings Remembers: Local Stories of the First World War
13 October 2018
27 January 2019
Since 2014, Hastings Remembers has been looking at the impact war had on Hasting...
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The Price of War
13 October 2018
27 January 2019
By Autumn 1914, it was clear that the fighting wouldn't be over by Christmas. If...
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Starlings Music Museum Sessions
11 January 2019
10:00 - 11:30
Starlings Music Group are returning to Hastings Museum and Art Gallery for a ser...
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Mindfulness Project Children's Day
12 January 2019
10:00 - 16:00
Join us at the Hastings Museum for a day of free drop-in children’s activities i...
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Local Studies Room
16 January 2019
10:00 - 13:00
The Local Studies drop-in service will resume from 10am-1pm, Wednesday 21st Nove...
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Starlings Music Museum Sessions
18 January 2019
10:00 - 11:30
Starlings Music Group are returning to Hastings Museum and Art Gallery for a ser...
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Museum Minis
24 January 2019
10:30 - 11:30
A new series of sessions when popular children's storyteller Kevin Graal will sh...
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Starlings Music Museum Sessions
25 January 2019
10:00 - 11:30
Starlings Music Group are returning to Hastings Museum and Art Gallery for a ser...
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Memory Mats Rag rugging with artist Debbie Siniska
26 January 2019
10:15 - 16:00
Rag rug making was a thrift craft in the 'make do and mend' era, a great way to ...
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Starlings Music Museum Sessions
01 February 2019
10:00 - 11:30
Starlings Music Group are returning to Hastings Museum and Art Gallery for a ser...
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Archaeology
The Museum has a large Archaeological collection including around 2,500 flints...
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The Brassey Family & Their Collection
The Brasseys were an influential family in Hastings in the second half of the ...
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Native North Americans
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery has a fantastic collection from Nati...
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Grey Owl
'GREY OWL WAS NOT A RED INDIAN - HE WAS A SUSSEX MAN!' This was the head...
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Other World Art
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery has objects from every continent covering 4,...
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Dinosaurs and Other Fossils
The Museum has around 1,400 fossils of plants and animals, mostly from the loc...
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The Hastings Rarities Affair
In August 1962, the ornithological journal ‘British Birds’ published two artic...
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Archives, Local & Social History
Around two-thirds of Hastings Museum & Art Gallery's collections are made ...
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John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird doesn't have his own gallery but he is featured in ...
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James And Decimus Burton
Hastings Museum holds an extensive collection of over 300 architectural drawin...
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Robert Tressell
Robert Tressell wrote "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" in Hastings bet...
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Fine Art
Since the end of the 18th century, Hastings has inspired generations of artist...
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Decorative Arts
The Decorative Arts collection at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery contains o...
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Families
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is a family-friendly museum that encour...
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Schools
The opportunity to visit a museum or handle historic artefacts can really en...
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Research
The Local Studies drop in service will be closed until further notice. Th...
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Loan Boxes
Access to artefacts brings history and culture to life. Handling and inv...
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Ethnographic Imaginings
Acclaimed poets John Agard, Grace Nichols & Imtiaz Dharker were commi...
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About the Museum
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is a family-friendly museum with amazingly d...
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Visit us
Admission is free. We are open all year: April - October: Tuesday - Saturday...
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Find the Museum
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery John's PlaceBohemia Road Hastings&n...
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Museum shop
Alongside the popular pocket money and exhibition merchandise ranges, our shop...
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Weddings & other ceremonies
Built in 1886 for the Indian & Colonial Exhibition, forming the centrepiec...
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Hire the Museum
Planning a cultural, educational or civic event? Why not hold it in the ...
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Make a Donation
You can support the work of the Museum by making a donation, either financial ...
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Join the Museum Association
The Hastings & St Leonards Museum Association was formed in 1889 and is be...
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Become a Volunteer
We are currently recruiting volunteers to help with Hastings Remembers: L...
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NEWS
LOCAL STUDIES ROOM REOPENING The Local Studies drop-in service will resume ...
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