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Bexhill Museum shares People’s Postcode Lottery prize

Five local charities won funding from the People’s Postcode Lottery’s in its October promotion, including Bexhill Museum, which has benefitted from a £30,000 donation.

Former readers & followers of Blues Unlimited Magazine at the unveiling.

Bexhill – Birthplace of the Blues Unlimited magazine

A new plaque commemorates the founding of Blues Unlimited Magazine in Bexhill in 1963 – as read by the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, among others…

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Government awards Museum new ‘renewal’ funds

Bexhill Museum is delighted to announce that it has been awarded £43,118 from the UK Government’s new Museum Renewal Fund.

A cross made by Tim Hemmings of Bexhill while a prisoner of the Japanese during WWII

Remembering Bexhill’s Japanese POWs 80 years after VJ Day

As we mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, a moment to remember Bexhill’s survivors of years of brutal abuse in as POWs in Japanese slave labour camps – and those prisoners who never made it home.

A Bexhill Museum Education Team volunteer with the WWI collection.

Council Devolution – what next for Sussex museums?

Local government reorganisation and the foundation of new unitary authority with a Sussex-wide Mayor approaches. What does this mean for Sussex museums?

Brownies visiting Bexhill Museum

Bexhill Girlguiders take over for World Thinking Day

Bexhill Girlguiding members kick started their 100-year celebrations with a takeover of Bexhill Museum for World Thinking Day.

Arts events for seven to 11 year olds in Bexhill

Get Creative! – A fun-filled week of arts, music & history

Eligible seven to 11 year olds can take part in music, making, drawing and painting. inspired by this Easter’s theme – Ancient Egypt.

Jasper and George, winner of our Xmas trail competition and his family

George the Gingerbread Cuddly Toy finds a home

The winner of our Christmas Gingerbread Trail competition has been announced. He is four year old Jasper, who chose the name George for his cuddly toy prize.

An imagined scene drawn by Anthony Hutchings. Around what is now the 'Bexhill area' but, 135 million years ago: a spinosaur seizes the carcass of an ornithopod, much to the annoyance of the smaller tyrannosaurs and dromaeosaurids.

Tyrannosaur teeth found in Bexhill with help of local expert

Tyrannosaurs, Spinosaurs and Velociraptor-like predators roamed Bexhill 135 million years ago, confirmed by fossilised teeth discovered by retired local quarryman Dave Brockhurst.

John Betts

John Betts: Twenty-one years of service to Bexhill Museum

Bexhill Museum is saddened to report the passing of John Betts, our much respected honorary president, and driving force behind our 2009 extension project.

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