The desiccated cat It was Hallowe’en this week, so it seems fitting to highlight one of Horsham Museum’s more unusual items on display – the desiccated (dried out) cat! It is part of the ‘Cabinet of Curiosity’ and sometimes erroneously called the ‘mummified cat’, but it wasn’t preserved… far from it. It was discovered behindContinueContinue reading “Sad story of an ancient cat”
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Friends help out Museum’s major Summer exhibition
The Friends help with Horsham Museum’s latest exhibition
Rossetti and his Steyning muse
Read about painter Rossetti’s West Sussex muse
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”
New TV screen and cabinet
A new TV screen advertising the work of the Friends has been installed at the Museum.
Friends of Horsham Museum & Art Gallery 
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