Collection: Horsham Museum and Art Gallery

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Personalia

  The collection features artefacts belonging to Sir Frank Brangwyn artist and muralist. He worked for the William Morris workshop and locally worked on large murals such as those in Christ’s Hospital, Horsham. Edward Johnston, famous for designing the lettering for the London Underground also came to live in Ditchling in 1913 until his death in 1944.

  Decorative/Applied Art

  Mainly British and European glassware.

  Agriculture

  Agriculture and farming collections include a small reserve collection of hand tools. Most of the collection is on public display.

  Arms and Armour

  This collection comprises c.400 ethnographic items and c.200 British arms and armour.

  Ethnography

  Ethnographic material originates from Asia, Africa, American, Europe (non-British), Polynesia and Australia.

  Fine Art

  Around 1,000 British pictures and prints, the majority is of local theme of origin.

  Geology

  Geology specimens comprise c.400 locally found (Sussex), c.1800 British and c.300 Worldwide.

  Social History

  An extensive collection including folk art, advertising, packaging, commerce, personalia, domestic, business, toys and games, pastimes and transport.

  Costume/Textiles

  Nearly 4,000 items comprising costume (male, female, juvenile), accessories (shoes, handbags, fans, hats/gloves) and the Honeywood collection of c.200 textiles.

  Numismatics

  c.600 medals including military and agricultural. Most came from Hull Grundy in the 1970s. There are also c.750 – 1,000 coins of local, British, worldwide origin, some of archaeological age.

  Archaeology

  Over 10,000 items of archaeology ranging from locally found material to British World Wide (inc. Roman and Greek items). A great deal of local material consists of flints picked up in field walking. The collection also includes 11 ancient Egyptian objects.

  Ancient Egyptian Collection

  The museum holds 11 ancient Egyptian objects which are part of the Archaeology collection, counting out some forgeries. The museum once held some 75 Egyptian items, including jewellery and funerary items. Most or all of this was loaned by Captain C. Lucas to the Museum Society in 1946 and eventually donated. Most of this was stolen or lost somewhere in the years 1974-1979. Lucas had bought the items in London in the 1920s and 30s. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: canopic jars; coffin (fragment); faience figures; jewellery; animal remains (mummy); pottery; shabtis; stone figure (head, prob. a fake).

  Subjects

  Ancient civilizations; Antiquities; Antiquity; Egyptology; Archaeological objects

  Photographic

  There are some worldwide and British photographs, but most subjects are of a local nature.

  Archives

  A large collection comprising maps, manuscripts and printed ephemera.

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC