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Discover what’s new for you this The Ice Rink opens Museum 4 • Exhibitions autumn at our five fabulous venues on 7 November. For more Major exhibitions and small displays across Brighton & Hove. information and tickets visit The Royal Pavilion 10 Brighton Museum celebrates www.royalpavilionicerink.co.uk • Events British pleasure in Pierdom , Hove Museum 15 Talks and tours for adults an exhibition by Brighton based Brighton & Hove Residents photographer Simon Roberts. Don’t forget you can enjoy half-price Booth Museum 17 • Families We are also excited to host admission to the Royal Pavilion and Activities for children and families Christian Bale’s Batsuit from The Preston Manor with children going free, Preston Manor 19 Dark Knight Rises . The Royal and free entry to Brighton Museum. • Early Years Pavilion is full of music and festive The Keep 21 Sessions for 2-5 year olds fun with the Brighton Film Quartet Be part of the life of the Royal Pavilion and Father Christmas, who will also & Museums with our membership How to book 22 be visiting Preston Manor. Or why scheme, great benefits, great value! not test your bird brains at the www.brightonmuseums.org.uk 23 Venue information Cover: Paignton , Devon, 2011 Booth Museum at our natural [email protected] Opposite: Pier, , 2011 history themed pub quizzes? 03000 290900 Membership 24 © Simon Roberts / courtesy Flowers Gallery Brighton For how to book see page 22 , Brighton, 2011 © Simon Roberts / courtesy Flowers Gallery Call 03000 290902 or visit Museum www.brightonmuseums.org.uk

Pierdom Our gallery explainers will be on hand Photographs of Britain’s piers to share interesting objects and stories by Simon Roberts about Brighton & Hove’s own 3 October 2015 to 21 February 2016 contrasting piers. Free with Brighton Museum admission, members and residents free A century ago over a hundred piers fringed the British coastline, built to provide a tantalising taste of the sea, without getting wet. Today, less than half of these still stand. Internationally renowned photographer Simon Roberts, who lives in Brighton, has completed a three-year quest to document all of Britain’s remaining pleasure piers. Simon’s striking and evocative photographs celebrate the personality, architecture and history of each structure.

4 brighton museum brighton museum 5 The Dark Knight Rises Batsuit Ben Rivers, Ah, 18 August to 20 September Liberty ! (2008) © the artist FASHION & STYLE GALLERY This September Brighton will be coming out to ‘dress up and play’ for The Costume Games . To celebrate, Brighton Museum will host Christian Bale’s Batsuit from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises . This is a genuinely rare opportunity to get up close to one of the most iconic superhero costumes of our times. There is also the chance to meet Ben Rivers: Ah, Liberty! Fund, 2014 as a joint acquisition with the team behind the costume during one During CINECITY 12 to 29 November Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. of the workshops at The Costume TEMPORARY EXHIBITION GALLERIES Games in Gardens. This special screening, during Brighton Ocean Blues For more information visit film festival CINECITY , celebrates our Ongoing throughout 2015 www.thecostumegames.com new acquisition of the artist Ben Rivers’s SPOTLIGHT GALLERY 16mm films Ah, Liberty! and Origins of The oceans are home to more than half the Species (2008). Moving between of all life on earth, cover 70% of the documentary and fiction, and shot on earth’s surface and have supported life 16mm film, a medium which is fast for millions of years. This display looks becoming obsolete, Rivers’s films offer a at some of the threats to life in the glimpse into the lives of people existing oceans as well as initiatives designed to Remix the Museum at the margins of society. reduce or reverse the impact modern 8 to 30 September The works were acquired through The society has had on this precious SOUTH BALCONY Contemporary Art Society Collections environment. Mr Booth and his Natural Science collection are mixed and mashed up in Alkin & Walker. The New Race Stand, Brighton , 1852 this display with a difference. Brighton Youth Film Festival, animator Dave Packer, and a team of young people return for a second year to remix and animate the museum collections. Part of Brighton Digital Festival 2015

Views of Brighton & Hove in the early 19th century Continues to 11 October PRINTS & DRAWINGS GALLERY Image by By Eva Rinaldi A unique opportunity to view a series of topographical prints and drawings held in the private collection of the late • Exhibitions Henry Smith and the Royal Pavilion & • Events Museums’ own collection. • Families

6 brighton museum brighton museum 7 The Big Draw Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28, Thursday 29 & Friday 30 October 10am-12pm & 2-4pm Free with Brighton Museum admission, members and residents free, drop-in. All ages Inspired by the museums collections? Drop in and take part in this year’s The Big Draw with free drawing activities for all the family.

Diwali Family Fun , Suffolk, 2012 © Simon Roberts / courtesy Flowers Gallery Sunday 1 November 11.30am-3.30pm Free with Brighton Museum Bite-size Museum admission, members and residents free, Every Tuesday from 1 September drop-in. All ages 12pm Free with Brighton Museum admission. Come and celebrate Diwali ‘the Festival Check our website for full details of each event of Lights’ with a variety of fun, hands-on Pop-up guided tours, short talks and family friendly activities, including henna closer looks at stories from our eclectic hand painting, a rangoli art workshop collections led by Royal Pavilion & and dressing up. Museums staff. Piers, Colour and Turner In conjunction with the Hindu are just a few of the subjects covered Women’s Group. this autumn. y h p a r g o t o h P

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8 brighton museum Exotic Creatures The Royal For how to book see page 22 14 November 2015 to 28 February 2016 Call 03000 290902 or visit PRINCE REGENT GALLERY Pavilion www.brightonmuseums.org.uk Free with Royal Pavilion admission members free This exhibition explores animals in the Royal Collection, menageries and early zoos, and political beasts in the period 1750 to 1850. Discover the fascinating story of the first living giraffe in the UK, given to George IV as a diplomatic gift in 1827, plus the history of travelling menageries performing in London and Brighton, and other exotic creatures. A Concert with the Families can enjoy the exhibition’s Brighton Film Quartet hands-on and playful approach and Friday 16 October children are challenged to complete the Doors open 7.30pm, performance 8-10pm Royal Pavilion Creature trail. (Purchase £22.50, members £18.50, at admission desk). book in advance (includes a glass of white Can you find the dragons, serpents wine/soft drink in the interval) and birds as you explore the Royal The Brighton Film Quartet, a stunning Pavilion on your way to the Exotic all-female piano ensemble, took this Creatures exhibition? year’s Brighton Fringe by storm. Piano, clarinet, cello and violin sound more like Left: The Nubian Giraffe , by Jacques-Laurent Agasse (c1827), Royal Collection Trust / a mini orchestra than a quartet, blending © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015 cinematic and classical elements to exquisite effect. The quartet’s pianist Penny Loosemore has written music for award-winning film director Trevor Hughes, and her evocative cinematic style (think ‘Amelie’ or ‘The Piano’) is, as one concertgoer put it, ‘sublimely moving’. Book now for an evening of truly beautiful music in the stunning setting of the Music Room. We are anticipating a sell-out event so don’t delay. ‘A class act … top musicians and beautiful compositions’ Julian Caddy, Brighton Fringe Director • Exhibitions • Events For a preview visit • Families www.verycomposed.com

10 the royal pavilion the royal pavilion 11 Charles Burleigh The Music Room as book now for 2016! a hospital for Indian soldiers 1914-15 The Earth Laughs in Flowers Friday 18 March 2016 This one day international conference Doors open 7.30pm, performance 8pm, £32.50, seeks to bring to life the diverse voices members £28.50, book in advance (includes a and experiences of those from India glass of white wine/soft drink in the interval) affected by the conflict. Visit our website Celebrate the beginning of spring with a for the full programme. joyful evening of words and music with In partnership with Gateways to the mezzo-soprano Pippa Dames-Longworth First World War, Centre for Armed Forces and Nicholas Bosworth at the piano. Historical Research, UK Punjab Heritage Enjoy pieces by Handel, Fauré, Bizet, Association, & Festival Gilbert and Sullivan, Ivor Novello, Joyce Grenfell and Rudyard Kipling all in the Big Screen Love Christmas Banquet perfect setting of the Music Room. Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 November Friday 11 December Pippa’s career has taken her Full programme and ticket details will be 6.30-11pm £97 per guest, throughout Europe and beyond. She has announced in September members £87 per guest, book in advance sung for The Royal Opera House, Covent www.cine-city.co.uk The banquet on 18 December has sold Garden, English National Opera, Paris For four nights only, the Music Room is out so book now to avoid Opera, for SkyArts, the BBC Proms and The Royal Pavilion transformed into a picture palace to disappointment! for the Edinburgh International Festival. and the First World War celebrate love on the big screen. The Step into the past this Christmas and Saturday 24 October, Sunday 27 December exotic splendour of the Royal Pavilion join us for a drinks and canapé reception ‘Irresistible gripping theatre, & Tuesday 29 December provides a sumptuous backdrop for a followed by a three course dinner with with a vigorously projected MEET AT THE ROYAL PAVILION selection of cinema classics in praise of wine and coffee in the palace’s performance from Pippa 10.30am-1.30pm includes refreshment break love in all its many guises. magnificent Banqueting Room. Dames-Longworth.’ £25, members £20, book in advance Presented by CINECITY the Brighton Catering is supplied by JRC Events, Uncover the remarkable story of the Film Festival for Film Hub South East as the menu is available on request from The Times Royal Pavilion Estate as a military hospital part of the BFI’s LOVE film season UK- the bookings office. ‘Spellbinding… from 1914 to 1919. This tour of the wide. www.bfi.org.uk/love Private tables of 10 available; smaller estate includes exclusive backstage groups will be asked to share a table. my annual treat’ access to the Dome, Corn Exchange and Charity Carol Concert Dress code: black tie or optional period Peter Florence, Director, Hay-on-Wye Festival a glimpse of the famous secret tunnel. Thursday 3 December dress. 7-9pm £30, members £20, book in advance Voices of India: The First World War (includes mulled cider and mince pies) Father Christmas at the Royal Pavilion One day conference at The Old Christmas wouldn’t be complete without Saturday 12, Sunday 13 & Saturday 19 Courtroom, 118 Church Street carol singing, and where better to to Tuesday 22 December Saturday 21 November celebrate than the Royal Pavilion Music 10am-5pm, £9.50 per child, Royal Pavilion 10.30am-7.30pm £60, members £55, book in Room? Sing along with two fantastic admission fees apply. Price includes gift. advance (includes tea/coffee and an evening choirs and enjoy mulled cider and mince All ages, book in advance. drinks reception at the Royal Pavilion, lunch is pies during the interval. Father Christmas returns to the truly not provided) extravagant Royal Pavilion for a For the past 100 years, the story of traditional treat for all the family. After a India’s role in the First World War has • Exhibitions magical meeting with the man himself, been largely forgotten, both within India • Events explore the Prince Regent’s party palace and by the rest of the world. • Families on a special exotic creature trail.

12 the royal pavilion the royal pavilion 13 First & Foremost Events Ltd bring their unique take on the world’s Proudly Presents greatest music to The Royal Pavilion’s Hove For how to book see page 22 Worbey & Farrell – Music Room for one night only. The Call 03000 290902 or visit Four Hands One Piano! ingenuity and wit of these amazing Museum www.brightonmuseums.org.uk Friday 22 April 2016 musicians will make you laugh out loud Two shows: Pre-drinks 7-7.30pm, and simply take your breath away. performance 7.30-8.30pm Expect spectacular arrangements, Animals in the Frame This autumn Hove Museum is all about Pre-drinks 9-9.30pm, performance 9.30- original compositions and utterly 21 September 2015 to 31 March 2016 animals. Drop in and draw, follow a trail 10.30pm, £32.50, members £28.50, sensational piano-playing. Free admission or join a workshop! book in advance, (includes a pre-show glass Animals both domestic and wild are of white wine/soft drink) ‘Incredible’ featured in this exhibition of paintings Animal tracks! Come and be amazed by Worbey and from the collection of the Royal Pavilion From Saturday 5 September to Wednesday Eamonn Holmes, ITV’s This Morning. Farrell ... where four hands and one & Museums. In this family friendly 23 December (except Wednesdays) piano raise the roof! Following sell-out exhibition artists have captured aspects During museum open hours Free, drop-in. shows at The Edinburgh Festival, and ‘Jaw-dropping talent’ of our relationship with animals, whether Up to 8 years prestigious venues around the world, Kate Copstick, Scotsman. it is admiration for the majesty of a stag Pick up this trail and find the animals on the internationally acclaimed piano duo or exactly why dogs are known as man’s display in the museum. Can you draw best friend. the animals you find? The show is supported with audio- description and gallery activities so come Endymion Lies With His Dogs ‘Beyond dazzling’ along and join in the fun. On A Craggy Hillside , Briton Rivière Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3

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14 the royal pavilion hove museum 15 Crazy Critters Christmas Tree Craft Tuesday 27, Thursday 29 & Friday 30 October Saturday 19, Monday 21 & Tuesday Booth For how to book see page 22 10.30am-12pm & 1.30-3pm £2 per child, 22 December Call 03000 290902 or visit drop in. 3-8 years 10.30am-12pm & 1.30-3pm Museum www.brightonmuseums.org.uk Drop in to one of these fun workshops Sunday 20 December 2.30-4pm and make crazy critters in paint, collage £2 per child, drop-in. 4-12 years and 3D. Using a variety of methods you can Backstage at the Booth make crafty Christmas trees in this Saturday 12 September, Friday 9 October Drop in and draw … animals! festive workshop. Make your own tree & Saturday 7 November 4.30pm 17 September, 15 October, 19 November to take home and decorate your house. Fridays 25 September, 23 October & 17 December & 27 November 11.30am 3.30-4.30pm Free drop-in. All ages Picture Time and Story £15, members £12, book in advance,16+ Do you like drawing? Drop in at our Thursdays from 3 September to 17 December A rare chance to discover the secrets and studio session, pick up your pencil and inclusive (not during October half term) surprises concealed behind the everyday draw. One of our team will be there if 10am-12pm £2 per child, drop-in. 2-5 years face of this unique and intriguing you want to pick up some drawing tips Use craft materials to make a picture Victorian natural history museum. See but the rest is up to you! based on creatures you can find in the some of the hundreds of thousands of museum and listen to a story. amazing objects not currently on display. Please note: most of the stores are • Exhibitions upstairs and not accessible to wheelchair • Families users. • Early Years Halloween Pub Quiz Saturday 31 October 7-9.30pm £25 per table, members £20 – maximum 5 people per table (10 tables available), book in advance,18+. Pay bar Join us this Halloween for our special Museums at Night pub quiz. Compete with other teams to see who can answer Live Animal ‘Pub’ Quiz the most questions on wildlife and our Friday 20 November natural history collections, and enjoy a 7-9.30pm £30 per table, members £25 – drink from our bar. Includes a prize for maximum 5 people per table (10 tables the winning team! available, book in advance,18+. Museums at Night event Pay bar Why should the kids have all the fun? For our November pub quiz, enjoy a drink and see and handle live animals from the Jaws ‘n’ Claws collection. Compete with other teams to see who can match the skull with the animal, identify beasties by touch and name that reptile! Ideal for early Christmas parties – includes a prize for the winning team!

16 hove museum booth museum 17 HALF TERM WEEK Early Years Fridays 10-11.30am £5, members £4, Preston For how to book see page 22 Jaws ‘n’ Claws book in advance. 2-5 years only Call 03000 290902 or visit Tuesday 27 October Early Years sessions include art activities, Manor www.brightonmuseums.org.uk 10.30-11.30am, 1.30-2.30pm & 3-4pm a museum expedition, a story and Family of 4 £21, family of 3 £14, individuals £7, handling some museum objects. members £6, book in advance. All ages Monkey Puzzle The Preston Manor dog cemetery Rudyard Kipling: his Life and Verse Live mini beast handling with Phil and his 4 September Thursday 10 September & Saturday Sunday 27 September amazing menagerie, including snakes, 12 September 2.30-3.30pm £5 (plus Preston Manor admission) Old MacDonald had a Farm lizards and giant bugs. PRESTON MANOR WALLED GARDEN members £4.50, book in advance 11 September 11.30am–12.30pm Free Meet Rudyard Kipling in person as he Future Taxidermists Fun with Fossils As part of Heritage Open Days this tour tells his life story on this lively afternoon Wednesday 28 October 18 September celebrates the happy lives and poignant celebrating the famous author and one- 10am £10, members £8, book in advance. Teddy Bears’ Picnic deaths of the Preston Manor family dogs time guest at Preston Manor. 8-15 years. Maximum 2 adults per child 25 September immortalised in the pet cemetery. Join professional taxidermist Jazmine Murder Mystery Night Painting Pictures Miles-Long at this special workshop for Behind the Scenes tour Saturday 24 October & Wednesday 2 October children looking at the art of taxidermy. Fridays 25 September, 16 October, 30 December Discover how to stuff an animal skin and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt! 20 November & 11 December 6pm & 8.30pm £20, members £15, build your own mannequin to take away. 9 October 11.30am-1pm £16.50, members £13.50, book in advance Please note: There will be a brief demon- The Snail and the Whale book in advance A classic murder mystery in the perfect stration of taxidermy but attendees will 16 October Go through the door marked ‘private’ on setting! Join 368 Theatre Company and not participate in this aspect. Room on the Broom (Halloween) this fascinating and surprising backstage follow the clues with the help of a 23 October tour that reveals the hidden half of the fortifying glass of wine and the special house. after-hours ambience to get the little I Love Bugs! grey cells working. 6 November Feathery Friends 13 November Dino Day! 20 November Under the Sea 27 November A Dark, Dark Night Discover Skeletons! 4 December Friday 30 October Winter Sparkles 10.30-11.45am &1.30-4pm Free, 11 December drop-in. All ages Winter Wonderland A drop-in discovery day looking at 18 December the skeletal collections of the Booth Museum. Bring in your finds and learn about preparing skeletons, • Events reconstructing fossil animals and the • Families mechanics of skeletons. • Early Years

18 booth museum preston manor 19 Cabinet of Curiosities: Preston Manor after dark The Keep Friday 30 October 6-10pm £13 per adult, members £10, £6 per child (10-16 years), book in advance Do you dare to visit the spooky underground cellars of Brighton’s most haunted house? Prepare for Halloween with our night of entertainment and discovery. Includes guest mediums offering tarot taster-readings, ghost tales, noir short film screenings and a magic lantern show. Museums at Night event

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Christmas customs and traditions. Take © a tour upstairs and downstairs in our beautiful Edwardian manor house and The Keep is a world-class centre for Keep Eating: Explore and Celebrate enjoy a glass of sherry and a mince pie archives that brings together the local food through the ages at The Keep’s served in the Victorian kitchens dressed history collections of the Royal Pavilion Open Day for the season. and Brighton & Hove Museums. Other Saturday 26 September, 10am-3pm Free, collections include the county archive drop-in Father Christmas at Preston Manor held by East Sussex Record Office and Join us for a mouth-watering Saturday 19 to Wednesday 23 December the Special programme of activities for all ages, a 10am-5pm £8 per child, Preston Manor Collections, which include the Mass specially created display of material from admission fees apply. Price includes gift. Observation Archive. our collections and a chance to All ages, book in advance The extensive collections will be of contribute your own family recipes to Meet Father Christmas in the cosy interest to family and local historians, as our archive. fireside setting of Lady Ellen’s beautiful well as students of literature, politics and Drawing Room. Afterwards explore social history. There is also a regular Opening hours Preston Manor top to bottom and programme of talks, workshops and Tuesday to Friday 9.30am-5pm discover how a Victorian family prepared tours of the state-of-the-art building. Saturday 9.30am-4pm for a magical Christmas. The Keep is open to the public from (Reading Room closed 1-2pm) Tuesday to Saturday; see our website for Closed Monday further details and please feel free to drop in! 01273 482349 [email protected] www.thekeep.info • Events The Keep, Woollards Way, • Families Brighton BN1 9BP

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You can buy tickets by telephoning the Events Booking line on 03000 290902 (Mon- Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Fri), in person at any of our venues, or online at www.brightonmuseums.org.uk. Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton BN1 1EE Tel 03000 290900 You can also email [email protected] if you have any queries. Open Tue-Sun 10am-5pm Closed Mon (except Bank Holidays 10am-5pm), 24 Dec (from 2.30pm) A £1.50 booking fee may apply to some events. Tickets cannot be reserved without 25 & 26 Dec. Admission fee payable, Brighton & Hove residents and members free payment. Please book early as an event may be cancelled if too few tickets have been sold.

Free events cannot be booked in advance unless otherwise stated. We welcome donations to help support our varied events programme and to help towards the Hove Museum & Art Gallery upkeep of our buildings. 19 New Church Road, Hove BN3 4AB Tel 03000 290900 Open Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri & Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 2-5pm Visit our website for further information www.brightonmuseums.org.uk Closed Wed (open on Bank Holiday Mondays), 24-26, 28 Dec & 1 Jan Free admission Please note A ‘first come, first served’ policy is in operation for drop-in sessions and free events that do not require pre-booking. Please arrive at the start time for all sessions, with the exception of drop-in events. Booth Museum of Natural History 194 Dyke Road, Brighton BN1 5AA Tel 03000 290900 Access Open Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri & Sat 10am-5pm (closed 12-1.15pm), Sun 2-5pm If you have any access requirements please contact the Bookings Team who will be Closed Thu (open on Bank Holiday Mondays), 24-28 Dec & 1 Jan able to advise you: 03000 290902 or [email protected] Free admission For venues with an admission charge concessions are available for disabled visitors.

The Royal Pavilion Thank you to our supporters Brighton BN1 1EE Tel 03000 290900 Open daily Apr-Sep 9.30am-5.45pm (last admission 5pm) Oct-Mar 10am-5.15pm (last admission 4.30pm). Closed 24 Dec (from 2.30pm), 25 & 26 Dec Admission fee payable, members free

and partners Preston Manor Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6SD Tel 03000 290900 Open Apr-Sep Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 2-5pm (last admission 4.15pm) Closed Mon (including Bank Holidays) Closed Oct-Mar except for pre-booked groups, school visits and special events Admission fee payable, members free

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