NEWS RELEASES
Discover Your Own Doorstep
11 March 2009
Horsham Museum is opening a brand new gallery on your doorstep. All of us probably know or make an effort to visit places 30 or 40 miles away, but how many of us appreciate the sights and places just 3 or 4 miles from our front door? Now, with the brand new gallery ‘Discover the District’, Horsham Museum is aiming to help you explore and discover the district’s hidden corners.
The gallery, which has been created in a 300 year old panelled room, draws on the Museum’s collections of paintings, photographs and objects to help illustrate just what a fascinating and rich area Horsham District is. Instead of travelling to Italy to see 800 year old frescoes you can travel to Hardham and West Chiltington, less than 20 miles away to see no less intriguing examples of medieval art. Instead of travelling to the Loire valley for its inspirational landscape, travel through the Arun valley and see countryside that has inspired artists for over 100 years.
The new gallery is different to any other in Horsham Museum in that it is closely linked to the new Visitor Information Centre, both designed with one purpose in mind - to help the visitor, whether they live locally or visiting the area as tourists, to ‘Discover the District’.
In a land rich in castles, lakes and dragons there are so many stories to show and tell. Throughout the year a range of temporary displays will be mounted featuring different aspects of the District’s heritage and culture, starting with Hilaire Belloc. On display will be a unique manuscript, so important that the Government helped us buy it, of the only book the famous author wrote about his adopted county.
The new gallery is being opened on 23rd March by world renowned former District landowner, Good Queen Bess, Queen Elizabeth I!
For further information please contact Jeremy Knight, Curator.
Horsham Museum
9 Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 1HE
Tel: 01403 254959
Fax: 01403 282594
Email: museum@horsham.gov.uk
Web: www.horshammuseum.org