Lost In The Toy Museum - Museums At Night - 17th May 2014

This nationwide event ties in with the European campaign "La Nuit Des Musée", which is in correspondence with International Museums Day, which falls on the 18th of May.

This year we will be holding our Museums At Night event on Saturday 17th of May, and it's official title is "Lost in The Toy Museum".  On this day, instead of bringing the family down at 10am, we have a special opening and closing time for this event, which will begin at 4:30pm, and finish at approximately 7:30pm. 

We will be joined by Marc Sinclair who will be doing a reading from the book Lost in the Toy Museum, and afterwards we need to help each other find the toys that have left their usual posts, and are hiding around the museum. 

As well as a fun teddy hunt, we will also have wooden train sets and child friendly Meccano for everyone to play with, as well as art play, which includes making a puppet, and many other activities to keep young minds active. 

Our mascot, Buddy Bear, will also be here all evening to meet everyone.

Buddy Bear

The age group most suited to this event is 3 - 10 years old, but we are not restricting admission to this age group. Admission prices are as normal, adults entry is £4.50, children aged 4 - 14 entry is £3.50, under 3's entry is £1.50, and babes in arms have free admission. 

Entry to this event will not restrict your access to any part of the museum, and you are welcome to look around while your children are listening to stories, and you're also very welcome to join them. 

So tell your friends and family about the fun evening we have planned, and we hope to see you soon. 

Gods Wonderful Railway Running Day Highlights

On Saturday 29th March 2014 we had another successful running day.
This time we honoured the Great Western Railway, which is also known as Gods Wonderful Railway. It was a splendid affair, with many happy people excited to see the trains run.

We were especially delighted to have the "King George V" Great Western model run. It is a rare King Class Locomotive made for Bassett Lowke by Marklin in 1937, and we were very happy to have it run here in Brighton.

King George V

King George V

As well as the "King George V", we also had a range of other Great Western trains, including a special appearance by the "Alliance", which was kindly made possible by Mike Little.

Alliance

Alliance

Some of the other trains that ran were the "County of Bedford", the "Orion", and the "Pendennis Castle"

County Of Bedford

Pendennis Castle

Orion

We also had rare models in painted wood of the Great Western 70ft coaches, c1933; Early printed tin plate Great Western coaches by Carette, and a freight train by the same manufacturer, which are all 100 or more years old, as well as many other Great Western rarities.

All in all, we had a fabulous day, and we hope you did too. If you were unable to make it, we hope to see you at another running day soon, as we'd love to share this exciting experience with all of you.