Booth Museum of Natural History — Attraction in Great Britain

The museum was lively when my friend and I arrived! The animal displays were also varied to show the habitats of the birds, and some included prey. Not all of the animal names were visible in the glass cases portion, and there weren't additional placards providing information about each species, which I would've liked, but I may have also missed a QR code or something that led to an online guide.

The back portion was no less fun, and the informational placards there had some humor! There was one about the rhinoceros skull with artificial horns that poked fun at their value-- since they weren't real, they couldn't be used in Chinese medicine or we'd be sick or sold at cocaine-level prices.

Anyway, it's a quaint smaller museum in Brighton :) I liked it for an afternoon activity to spend a...

An excellent little museum curating the collection of Edward Thomas Booth a Victorian collector who insisted in the terms of donating the museum to the City that his Victorian-era dioramas, mostly of stuffed birds and other animals not be altered. As such the museum now works as a fascinating time capsule into a past era of museums. The museum itself does a great job modernising around its innately old-fashioned contents, with interactive elements, crafting/drawing areas for younger children, trails and videos of an actor reading out excerpts from Booth's original notebooks in character as Booth (mostly about his love of birds and hatred of the local cats).

Entry is free, the staff are consistently polite and the gift shop is decently stocked. 100%...

This was a trip down memory lane for me as I hadn't visited for 68 years. As a child my parents took my sister, brother and myself on regular visits as it had always been a firm favourite. I was not disappointed to see that the museum has lost none of its charm, the superb dioramas as fascinating today as ever. The friendly and enthusiastic staff make a visit to this extraordinary place with its huge range of birds of interest for all ages. Aged 5, I was privileged to be given by the then curator? sepia prints of 4 of the displays still much cherished and delighted to see them all exactly as captured. Entrance is free although I heartily recommend making a donation to help preserve this wonderful Victorian museum....