Museum ready for first Friday Late

Everyone is invited to Horsham Museum & Art Gallery’s first Friday Late this week! There will be plenty going on around the town to celebrate the Horsham District Council’s 50th Anniversary! The Museum will open as normal at 10am but won’t close until 8pm! From 6pm there will be refreshments available and live music fromContinueContinue reading “Museum ready for first Friday Late”

On this day – Horsham Market

https://youtu.be/M4uRMo8StZE On this day, May 20, in 1989 traders in Horsham’s old market at Piries Close (now Place) shut up shop for the final time. Two years before, the West Sussex County Times had announced that traders were ‘in limbo’ as plans had been put in place to redevelop the whole area, including Burton’s YardContinueContinue reading “On this day – Horsham Market”

Museum’s Horshamosaurus makes a trip

One of Horsham Museum & Art Gallery’s fascinating artefacts, the bones from a Horshamosaurus, has made a trip to Chichester. Horsham Museum Curator Nikki Caxton It is being featured as part of the Novium Museum’s latest exhibition, Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings. This exhibition tells the stories of iconic dinosaurs on their journeys from egg to adult,ContinueContinue reading “Museum’s Horshamosaurus makes a trip”

Museum’s musical May Bank Holiday treat

https://youtu.be/2LyM61AmTBE There was a musical treat for visitors to the Museum as it held a Spring Garden Party on Sunday May 5. The Museum’s first major event of the year, part of the town’s aMAYzing weekend celebration, proved popular, despite the changeable weather. Folkus had toes tapping with their music In fact, the heavy rainContinueContinue reading “Museum’s musical May Bank Holiday treat”

Star Wars Day and Horsham Museum

Today is Star Wars Day (May the Fourth – ‘May the Force’ – get it?) and, perhaps surprisingly, Horsham Museum & Art Gallery has some artefacts in its archives relating to the film franchise! Darth Maul First we have the above character figure of Darth Maul on a wheeled vehicle from the George Lucas StarContinueContinue reading “Star Wars Day and Horsham Museum”