Hove Museum of Creativity
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Hove Museum of Creativity is a municipally-owned museum in the town of Hove, which is part of the larger city of Brighton and Hove in the South East of England. The museum is part of Brighton & Hove Museums, and admission is free. Opened in 1927 by the Hove Corporation, the museum is located in a late 19th-century villa originally known as Brooker Hall.[1]
The museum has a toy gallery, called the Wizard's Attic, that includes a collection of dolls, teddy bears, mechanical toys, toy trains, dollhouses, rocking horses and tricycles. Another focus is contemporary crafts and fine art. The museum also includes local history displays, and a collection of early cinema artifacts from the 1890s and 1900s.[2]
The toy collection traces its origins back to the 1950s, when Leslie Daiken founded the National Toy Museum and Institute of Play.
Brooker Hall was constructed in 1877 by the architect Thomas Lainson for Major John Vallance. The building is in the Italianate style made popular by Osborne House, Queen Victoria's residence on the Isle of Wight. It stands in grounds now laid out as a public park.[3] During the First World War, the hall was used to house a contingent of German prisoners of war who were put to work at the local gas works or on nearby farms.[4]
References
- ^ "History of Hove Museum & Art Gallery". 22 February 2012. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012.
- ^ "Wizard's Attic". Brighton And Hove Museums. Brighton And Hove City Council. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ^ Trimingham, Adam (3 October 2009). "Shaping our city". The Argus. Newsquest Media Group. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
- ^ Middleton, Judy (2014). Hove and Portslade in the Great War (Kindle ed.). Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military. pp. 67–71. ISBN 9781473839847.
External links
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- Chartwell Court
- Courtenay Gate
- Embassy Court
- Fife House
- French Convalescent Home
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- 75 Holland Road
- Marine Gate
- Marlborough House
- Moulsecoomb Place
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- Ovingdean Rectory
- Patcham Place
- Pelham Institute
- Percy and Wagner Almshouses
- Portslade Manor (ruined)
- Preston Manor
- Regency Town House
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- Sussex Heights
- Tower House
- Van Alen Building
- Western Pavilion
squares and
terraces
- Adelaide Crescent
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- Schools: List of former board schools
- Blatchington Mill School
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- Cardinal Newman RC School
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- Hotels: Bedford
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- Grand (1984 bombing)
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- Inns and pubs: The Cricketers
- Freemasons Tavern
- Hangleton Manor Inn
- King and Queen
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- Royal Pavilion Tavern
and leisure
- The Arch
- Astoria (demolished)
- Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
- Blind Tiger Club (former)
- Brighton Centre
- Brighton Dome and Studio (Pavilion) Theatre
- Brighton Hippodrome (former)
- Brighton Marina
- Brighton Wheel
- Duke of York's Picture House
- Falmer Stadium
- Komedia
- King Alfred Centre
- Marlborough Pub and Theatre
- Medina House (demolished)
- Old Market
- Open Air Theatre
- Pryzm
- Revenge
- Regent Cinema (demolished)
- Royal Pavilion
- Saltdean Lido
- Theatre Royal
- Withdean Stadium
- Museums: Booth Museum
- Brighton Fishing Museum
- Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
- Brighton Toy and Model Museum
- British Engineerium
- Hove Museum and Art Gallery
- Brighton Palace Pier
- Royal Suspension Chain Pier (demolished)
- West Pier
- Anthaeum (demolished)
- Barford Court
- Chattri
- Church Street Drill Hall (former)
- Clock Tower
- 11 Dyke Road
- Foredown Tower
- Hove War Memorial
- i360
- Madeira Terrace
- North Gate of the Royal Pavilion
- Patcham Pylons
- Peace Statue
- Pepper Pot
- Ralli Hall
- St Dunstan's
- Sassoon Mausoleum
- Statue of Queen Victoria, Hove
- Steine House (YMCA)
- Waste House
- Whitehawk Hill transmitting station
- Charles Busby
- Clayton & Black
- John Leopold Denman
- Thomas Lainson
- John Nash
- Gilbert Murray Simpson
- Thomas Simpson
- Basil Spence
- Amon Henry Wilds
- Amon Wilds