Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
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John's Place
Bohemia Road
Hastings
England
TN34 1ET
Telephone: 01424 451 052
Email: museum@hastings.gov.uk
Open: April-October: Tuesday-Saturday 10-5, Sunday 12-5 - Last admission 4.30; November-March: Tuesday-Saturday 10-4, Sunday 12-4 - Last admission 3.30
- Wheelchair access
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is a family-friendly museum with amazingly diverse collections. The Museum was established over 120 years ago and has always offered local people and visitors to the town the opportunity to explore art, culture and history from around the world. The Museum's collections continue to grow and it now has around 97,000 objects of local history, natural sciences, fine & decorative arts, and world cultures
ARCHON code: 509
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Collections information
Businesses (1)
- Thwaites & Winter, shipbuilder Hastings, Sussex
Organisations (22)
- Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England: Derwent Lodge No54, hastings Hastings, Sussex
- Battle Abbey Battle Abbey, Sussex;Wye, Kent
- East Guldeford parish East Guldeford, Sussex
- Hastings and St Leonards Civic Society Hastings, Sussex
- Hastings and St Leonards Ladies Golf Club Hastings, Sussex
- Hastings and St Leonards Museum Society Hastings, Sussex
- Hastings and St Leonards Natural History Society Hastings, Sussex
- Hastings and St Leonards Philosophical Society Hastings, Sussex
- Hastings and St Leonards Volunteer Fire Brigade Hastings, Sussex
- Hastings borough (Cinque Port) Hastings, Sussex
- Hastings Conservative Association Hastings, Sussex
- Hastings Harbour Commissioners Hastings, Sussex
- Hastings land and window tax Hastings, Sussex
- Hastings Local Board of Health Hastings, Sussex
- Hastings Rape land tax commissioners Hastings, Sussex
- Holy Trinity Priory, Hastings Hastings, Sussex
- Magdalen Charity, Hastings Hastings, Sussex
- Old Contemptibles Association: Hastings branch Hastings, Sussex
- Parkers Charity, Hastings Hastings, Sussex
- Queens Royal St Leonards Archers St Leonards, Sussex
- Saunders Charity, Hastings Hastings, Sussex
- Socknersh estate, Brightling Brightling, Sussex
Persons (7)
- Ashburnham, Sir Anchitel, (1828-1899), 8th Baronet
- Ashburnham, Sir John, (1770-1854), 7th Baronet Chancellor of Chichester Cathedral
- Ashburnham, Sir William, (1739-1823), 5th Baronet MP
- Baird, John Logie, (1888-1946), television pioneer
- Dawson, Charles, (1864-1916), archaeologist
- Eversfield, William, (1739-1813), naturalist
- Oates, Titus, (1649-1705), Anti Catholic Agitator
Families (4)
- Collier family of Hastings Hastings, Sussex
- Dawes family of Ewhurst Ewhurst, Sussex
- Eversfield family of Denne Park, Horsham Horsham, Sussex
- Sayer-Milward family of Hastings Hastings, Sussex
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (10)
- NRA 1150 H Brooke collection: Icklesham deeds
- NRA 38240 Eversfield family of Denne Park: deeds and papers
- NRA 5876 Hastings Borough
- NRA 38239 Hastings Museum: MS collection
- NRA 7160 A Mannington: Horeham papers
- NRA 1151 Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt: Sussex deeds
- NRA 38241 Priory of the Holy Trinity, Hastings: deeds and papers
- NRA 37677 Sayer-Milward family of Fairlight Place, Hastings: deeds and estate papers
- NRA 38238 Socknersh estate, Brightling
- NRA 17705 JT Tregellas, mining supplies merchant, Truro link to online catalogue