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Gallery Exhibitions and Displays

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery has a varied programme of gallery exhibitions and displays taking place throughout the year.

All gallery exhibitions and displays are FREE
 

A Love of Oils

From Victorian fortune telling to Brighton Pride, explore love and courtship through painintgs
Fine Art Gallery

 
Christine Jones Brighton Pride 2002
   

Barry Surtees: Another Life

11 August to 8 November 2009

Barry Surtees has spent 20 years creating works using industrial materials. Lead, plaster, steel and rusty metal spring out from bold canvases in primary yellows, blues, reds, oranges and greens.
Café Balcony

Barry Surtees image
   

The Spice of Life

4 August 2009 to 8 August 2010

Salt from the mines to the table – from rock salt to rock-and-roll salt shakers. A selection of traditional containers for condiments and contemporary accessories for the dinner table.
Mr Willett’s Popular Pottery


King and Queen Chin Alessi 2007

   

Contemporary Craft

From 6 October 2009

Highlights from Brighton & Hove Museums’ collection showing the beauty and variety of contemporary craft, celebrating both local makers and national names.
off Café Balcony

Bangles by Jane Adams
Jane Adams Bangles
   

Jewels on the Nile

6 October 2009 to March 2010

Vivid images of the Egyptian people, places and ancient sites and culture, captured in tourist albums, paintings and etchings during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Prints & Drawings gallery

Photograph of Abu Simbel, Egypt
Photograph taken at Abu Simbel, Temple of Ramesses II, by Charles and Ellen Thomas-Stanford during their trip tp Egypt in 1901.
   

Time and Place

10 October to 13 December 2009

Brighton and Hove Black History present stories from Black and Minority Ethnic people who, from the 1950s to 1970s, came from former British colonies to train and work for the NHS.
South Balcony

Nurse at Brighton General
Nurse at Brighton General Hospital
© 'Time and Place' Brighton and Hove Black History

   

Operation Scipio

10 November 2009 to 7 February 2010

Paintings by Cyril Mount based on his military service in North Africa during World War II, including Operation Scipio – the famous battle at Wadi Akarit in Tunisia.
Café Balcony

Cyril Mount painting
   

 

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