It’s Women’s History Month! Every year there’s a different theme and this year it’s Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations. Over the next four weeks we have a quartet of Horsham women for whom that theme was incredibly relevant! Dorothea Hurst This week we focus on a woman who belonged to an influentialContinueContinue reading “Horsham’s Women of History”
Category Archives: Looking back
Horsham Museum Dinosaur exhibition – behind the scenes
The new exhibition – Cretaceous Horsham: Discovering Dinosaurs – is proving very popular at Horsham Museum & Art Gallery! Assistant Curator George Graham-Payne, who brought the exhibition together, chats to Museum Society Trustee Steve Payne (no relation) about the behind the scenes work involved. George Graham-Payne, Assistant Curator, at the exhbition. How far ahead do youContinueContinue reading “Horsham Museum Dinosaur exhibition – behind the scenes”
History of two Horsham Libraries – slideshow
https://youtu.be/uLjB68HlPSA A recent social media post that Horsham Museum & Art Gallery put up proved very popular! It was of the old town library that stood in North Street for many years. The former library in North Street. It was the first county-run public library, built in 1956, on the site of a couple ofContinueContinue reading “History of two Horsham Libraries – slideshow”
Dinosaur exhibition opens with help from the Friends
This year’s major exhibition for Horsham Museum & Art Gallery – Cretaceous Horsham: Discovering Dinosaurs – opened on Saturday (January 18). The Friends of the Museum, the exhibition sponsors, had a special preview the evening before. https://youtu.be/9W48LZfXRn0 The free exhibition, brought together by the Museum’s Assistant Curator George Graham-Payne, looks at the dinosaurs who onceContinueContinue reading “Dinosaur exhibition opens with help from the Friends”
Horsham’s lost pubs
https://youtube.com/shorts/HSXBGDw3-fA Last year Horsham Museum & Art Gallery ran a very popular feature via its social media channels on the pubs of Horsham, using photos from the archives. It was part of its regular #ThrowbackThursday posts. It focussed on those pubs that are still around or those that had closed in living memory. However, HorshamContinueContinue reading “Horsham’s lost pubs”
