Museum

Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

Hastings, United Kingdom · founded 1892

Museum in Hastings, founded 1892. 7 people in the register connected with it.

History

1919
Tab Brassey, only son of Annie Brassey, handed most of the Brassey collection, including most of the Brassey-Cypriot artefacts, to Hastings Corporation.
HastingsThomas Allnutt Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey Anna (Annie) Brassey, Baroness Brassey (née Allnutt)Taylor 2001, p. 244
1920
Mabelle Egerton gave the geology section (with some Roman glass) to Bexhill Museum, not Hastings.
BexhillMabelle Egerton Taylor 2001
1932
New Brassey annexe created at the museum, with the Durbar Hall; collection then cared for by Stanley Adshead; one case of Cypriot items displayed.
HastingsStanley Adshead Taylor 2001
1957
Keeper J. Manwaring Baines asked R. A. Higgins of the British Museum to examine a small group; Higgins identified a Bull Figure as Cypriot (1450 BC), one larger head as Cypriot 4th c. BC, three dancing figures said to be from Vounous and a plank figure said to be from Kourion; he doubted that a smaller head came from Cyprus.
HastingsJohn Manwaring Baines R. A. Higgins Taylor 2001, n. 31

7 people

Stanley Adsheadother (from 1932) · member or staffTaylor 20011932
John Manwaring Baineskeeper (1935–1957) · curator, styled Keeper in 1956-57Taylor 2001, n. 311935
Cathy Wallingcurator (1998–1999) · Assistant Museum CuratorTaylor 20011998
Alfred Maskellother (1885–1888)Taylor 2001
Catherine Harveykeeper · curator (Kiely 2017); 'Keeper of World Art' (Recke 2018 photo credits, as 'C. Harvey')Kiely 2017, p. 44

Thomas Allnutt Brassey, 2nd Earl Brasseydonor (1919–1919) · donor of the Brassey collection · gave objectsTaylor 2001, p. 2441919

Bull figure, identified by Higgins as Cypriot, 1450 BC
via Thomas Allnutt Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey1919Taylor 2001
Three dancing figures, said to be from Vounous
from Vounousvia Thomas Allnutt Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey1919Taylor 2001
Plank figure, said to be from Kourion
from Kourionvia Thomas Allnutt Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey1919Taylor 2001
Iron Age painted jug
Taylor 2001, n. 31

1.Lou Taylor (2001). “Lady Brassey, 1870-1886: traveller, writer, collector, educator, woman of means and the fate of her Cypriot artefacts”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 239-247. Oxford, Oxbow.
2. (2026). “Hastings Museum and Art Gallery”. Wikipedia. Online
3.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online