Hastings Museum & Art Gallery holds a unique and varied collection relating to the history of Hastings, with artefacts from prehistory to the present day and from every continent.
Paleontologist Phil Hadland talks about fossils from the museum's collection, then visitors design and make their own Jurassic and Cretaceous shadow puppets.
Free day at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery with a family clay workshop and a panel discussion launching the eco-arts magazine EARTHWORKS.
Screening of Nick Bloomfield's film about smuggling in Hastings and the Sussex coast, with an introduction by Bloomfield and a Q&A.
Talk on early Victorian geologists and palaeontologists led by Phil Hadland, followed by a Victorian toy theatre puppet-making and performing workshop.
Annual winter market by the Refugee Buddy Project with local makers, festive activities, music, singing, poetry and stories.
Taster session of the annual photography course for home-educated children, with a studio portrait activity.
Screening of the documentary 'Hastings Smugglers' by Nick Bloomfield, with introduction and Q&A.
A Victorian-style puppet and toy theatre performance about the Mantells and Charles Lyell, followed by talks and three participatory workshops.
Free-to-borrow audio box with ten stories and objects on life in Hastings, to be collected and returned at the museum reception.
Multi-sensory audio-described tour exploring the history of disability through eleven stories from the gallery's collection, created by the group In-sight.
