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If you are looking for something to entertain the children over May half term, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery has something for everyone.
On Tuesday 26 May, meet Fossil Trees – Hastings Museum & Art Gallery has partnered with CPRE Sussex to take part in the Tree Festival 2026, a county-wide celebration of trees, nature, and the environment. Join us for a journey millions of years into the past right here at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. Watch as our expert geologist and fossil hunter pulls some incredible prehistoric tree fossils out of the collection just for this event – book here.
On Wednesday 27 May, Lego fans can get creative and bring Lego to life with a hands-on session to build and programme their own interactive Lego machines and creatures. These are suitable for ages 5 and up, places are limited and booking is essential – book here.
The museum also has an interactive trail around the museum – ask at the front desk for details.
Within it are stories of joy, defiance, community and survival, of people who loved, made art, danced, organised and refused to disappear, of LGBTQIA+ lives lived here, even when they were not always recognised.
The Collective are not separate from the heritage they uncover. They are part of it. Their creative responses in this exhibition bring past and present together. These histories are part of this town. Now everyone is invited to discover them.
You can also enjoy Ruth Calland: This Is All the Treasure We Can Have or Hold. Ruth Calland’s Pin Ups series engages with the vulnerable ‘monstrous’ desire for freedom to explore their own and other gender-liminal subjectivities, through images from popular culture. Their vivid technicolour scenes depict real people, often based on videos of and by transgender and nonbinary people from around the world on TikTok, as aspirational figures.
The new museum leaflet until September is out now – please pick up a copy from the museum.
Find out more about all the events and exhibitions on the museum website and book your tickets online.
The museum is supported by government and Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation funding.
Arts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Let’s Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences. From 2023 to 2026 we will invest over £467 million of public money from Government and an estimated £250 million from The National Lottery each year to help support the sector and to deliver this vision. www.artscouncil.org.uk.
