The Booth Museum

A small, quirky museum of natural history, run by Brighton Museums, with a focus on Victorian taxidermy especially of British birds, insects, as well as fossils, bones and skeletons. Admission is free.

Opened in 1874 by naturalist and collector Edward Thomas Booth, he was particularly interested in birds, and it was his ambition, though not fully realized, to collect examples of every bird species found in Britain. Each species collected would include a male, a female, a juvenile and any plumage variations, all presented in Victorian-style 'dioramas' that attempted to recreate how birds would appear in the setting of their natural habitat.

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Seafront From Pier to Marina

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