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Worthing Museum and Art Gallery

Worthing's Museum and Art Gallery is located at the center of town, next to City Hall on Chapel Road and a short Walk from Montague Street and Warwick shopping. It is operated by the Leisure and Cultural Department of Worthing Borough Council, admission is free and is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00 to 05.00 clock. Having only opened in 1908, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery has recently celebrated its centenary. The elegant Edwardian building houses the largest museum in West Sussex. With thousands of artifacts and objects in his collection, it is able to display a large number of local and national interests to make.

The museum has over a thousand dolls that come in from the late eighteenth century to the 1980s. And dolls by leading manufacturers, there are unusual examples such as the pedlar doll, a head of an attached apple and a doll, which allegedly contributed to fertility is received, a Eliza Westwood to have thirteen children in the nineteenth century. The growing collection of toys include bears in all shapes and sizes and all kinds of toys Victorian as well as puzzles, board and card games. A recent legacy of Colin Mears collection of children's books and related material documenting the history of the 20th Century Childhood.

It is an excellent indicator of the geological past is Worthing and how the local Chalk Downs, Wealden clays and sandstones were formed. The fossil Collection includes those typical of the chalk cliffs of the South Downs and the tusk and tooth of a mammoth and the remains of a Iguanadon. The displays carry us through the Archaeological finds from the area with the oldest flint mines in the country (New Stone Age), Bronze Age, Roman and Saxon times. Among them the remains of an Anglo-long boat, which once up to four passengers at a time, crossed over the river Arun, an ancient Egyptian glass vase with a Greek inscription on the Anglo-Saxon cemetery found in High Down and, like many Roman coins Patching hoard of gold coins.

The younger History of life on the South Downs and the development of a popular seaside resort of Worthing in the last two hundred years or so in a series of ads displayed clearly. These are typical scenes of a Down Country Kitchen, a Victorian nursery and swimming in the sea and a large collection of objects and photographs.

The costume and textile collections date from the 17th Century to today. The variety of costume collection comes from across the UK, covering a wide range of types of clothing for different Events. The textiles to cover all aspects of manual labor, furnishings and paintings in wool and silk.

Upstairs, the collection of fine art includes not only local Artists and those who represent with Sussex, but also works a wide range of styles that includes Bianca (1869), a painting by William Holman Hunt, of one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelites was. Exhibitions and demonstrations of the museum's own collections theme nights are often held in the Norwood Gallery. The current Display of Museums celebrates anniversary. Here and below, there are many examples of decorative art such as glass and ceramics, pottery and souvenir shops are pieces.

At the conclusion of the visit of the museum is a sculpture garden at the rear of the building, where interesting sculpture exhibitions held three times a year.

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