Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Museum and art gallery in East Sussex, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery located in, Hastings, East Sussex, England. Established in 1892, it originally resided in the Brassey Institute (now the town's library), but moved to its current location in 1927.[1] As of 2019[update] it had around 97,000 objects of local history, natural sciences, fine and decorative arts, and world cultures.[2]
Established | 1892 |
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Location | John's Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings, East Sussex, England TN34 1ET |
Type | Regional museum, art gallery, history museum, decorative arts museum, natural history museum, local museum, archaeological museum, Asian art museum, ethnographic museum |
Public transit access | Visiting the museum |
Website | www.hmag.org.uk |
The early local history gallery recounts the history of the area from prehistory to the Saxons. Local wildlife is displayed in dioramas of different local habitats, and there is a dinosaur gallery. Other galleries include local wildlife and a Native North American collection, featuring the Plains and Sub-Arctic areas and the life of Hastings-born conservationist Archibald Belaney, who adopted the name "Grey Owl".