Musgrave Museum

“One of the most fascinating exhibitions in the U.K“

- Artworld Magazine, April/May 2008-

George Musgrave, now approaching his mid-nineties, has created private museum on a quiet shopping street in the southern English seaside town of Eastbourne. Among the charity shops, souvenir emporiums, newsagents and decaying hotels, the Musgrave Collection is an unusual and somewhat startling enterprise. Artist, designer, filmmaker, storyteller, collector, George Musgrave has, at ninety years of age, created a museum around his own life, interests and collections, constructing an idiosyncratic, self-curated, vision of a personal archive.

A central feature of the museum is a series of forty paintings depicting the life of St. Paul. These are the result of thirty years of research and took twenty years to paint. A display cabinet titled From the Caveman to the Computer illustrates the evolution of written communications from stone-age times to the present.

Some of the amazing things to see on your visit at the museum include dioramas,mini sculptures, paintings secular,"Speck of dust paintings", ancient coins and documents, victoriana, from "the caveman to the computer", archeology.