Category Archives: Horsham Museum

Horsham Museum’s tiny visitors

It’s been Nature Garden Week, so we’ve been looking at the Museum’s tiny visitors! Thanks to the amazing gardening team, there’s plenty of encouragement for all manner of wildlife to visit this tranquil spot in the middle of Horsham. There’s also a ‘bug hotel’ on a sunny wall that also provides a welcome ‘home’ forContinueContinue reading “Horsham Museum’s tiny visitors”

Horsham painter who highlighted people’s greed

On May 12 the prolific painter Walter Denny Sadler, who grew up in Horsham, was born in 1854. He exhibited at the Royal Academy for several years and often painted people with comical expressions to illustrate their greed or stupidity. This painting (right) in the Museum is of Horsham solicitor, money-lender, speculator and gambler HenryContinueContinue reading “Horsham painter who highlighted people’s greed”