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Booth Museum of Natural History is a charitable trust managed, municipally-owned museum of natural history in the city of Brighton and Hove in the South East of England.Its focus is on Victorian taxidermy, especially of British birds, as well as collections focusing on entomology (especially lepidoptera), chalk fossils, skeletons and botany.
Exhibits within the Booth museum of Natural History in Brighton Booth Museum of Natural History The Booth Museum was founded in 1874 by naturalist and collector Edward Thomas Booth. The Victorians were passionate about natural history and Edward Booth’s particular interest was ornithology, the study of birds.
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery is a municipally-owned public museum and art gallery in the city of Brighton and Hove in the South East of England. It is part of Brighton & Hove Museums. It costs £9.50 for a yearly pass, [1] discounted to £7 for Brighton and Hove residents and students at local universities.
This list of museums in East Sussex, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for ...
History museums in Brighton and Hove (1 C, 1 P) A. ... Booth Museum of Natural History; Brighton Fishing Museum; Brighton Toy and Model Museum; British Engineerium; H.
The museum is part of Brighton & Hove Museums, and admission is free. Opened in 1927 by the Hove Corporation, the museum is located in a late 19th-century villa originally known as Brooker Hall. [1] The museum has a toy gallery, called the Wizard's Attic, that includes a collection of dolls, teddy bears, mechanical toys, toy trains, dollhouses ...
Falmer Stadium, the home of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club; The Grand Hotel; Hove railway station; The British Airways i360, the tallest structure in the city at 162 m. Kemp Town (a Regency housing development) The Lanes, an area of Brighton known for its small, twisting series of pedestrianised streets housing many independent shops
Booth Museum of Natural History, 194 Dyke Road, Brighton, City of Brighton and Hove, England. Opened in 1874 in the grounds of founder Thomas Booth's house, with 308 exhibits. His widow gave the museum to the town in 1890, and it now has a 500,000-strong collection of national importance.