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Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

Johns Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings East Sussex. TN34 1ET

Hastings Museum Hastings Museum contains a rich and exotic mixture of fine paintings and china, the cultures of other lands, well-known personalities such as John Logie Baird and Robert Tressell and a contrasting view of local wildlife today and as it would have been 150 million years ago.

There are plenty of special features for children, with fossils that transform into dinosaurs, prehistoric crocodiles and fish, a diorama of local animals and birds, Native American Galleries complete with tipi and buffalo, and a display on Hastings born conservationist, Grey Owl.

The most spectacular part of the Museum is the magnificent Durbar Hall constructed for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition of 1886 as part of an Indian Palace. It now contains displays relating to the Indian subcontinent, and to the life of the Brassey family with artefacts collected on their voyages around the world in the 19th century.

The Local Studies Room provides access to the Museum's archive and reserve collections, including the Burton Collection, Borough records and title deeds, as well as large collections of photographs, maps and ephemera.

The Old Town Hall Museum

High Street, Old Town, Hastings East Sussex. TN34 1EW

The Old Town Hall Museum provides an introduction to the history of the Old Town of Hastings. The Museum reopened in 1999 following a major refurbishment project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The building is now fully accessible, and contains a wealth of historic exhibits, interactive models and reconstructions.The displays take the form of a walk back in time, covering all the key moments in the Old Town's history including the clearances of the 1930s, the rise of the Victorian resort, the town as a Napoleonic garrison, the notorious fraudster Titus Oates, the role of the Cinque Ports as well as the fires, floods and raids of the Middle Ages.

An audio tour is available.The Old Town Hall was built in 1823, replacing an 18^th century building on the same site. It has been a Museum since 1949.

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