Until 1 February 2025
Free admission, donations welcomed

This exhibition covers three themes,

Christmas past local John Leech’s illustrator of  A Christmas Carol.

Christmas Present shows some of your memories items from pantomimes held by local theatre groups, footage for a Christmas party and items from our collection.

Christmas Yet to Come is a chance for you to leave your Christmas wish.

Enjoy and from all of us at Crawley Museum we hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

 

3 October 2024 - 30 November 2024
Free admission, donations welcomed

Diverse Crawley and Crawley Campaign Against Racism return for their annual exhibition.

Find out more about Diverse Crawley here 

Find out more about Crawley Campaign Against Racism here 

 

 

1 August 2024 - 28 September 2024
Free admission, donations welcomed

Crawley Museum welcomes Crawley Arts Society, Crawley Camera Club and Crawley Writers Circle for their summer exhibition.

Some of the art works are available to buy through Crawley Art Society with a portion of the money being donated to support Crawley Museums to continue our work.

Some examples of previous work by Crawley Writers Circle and works by the Crawley Art Society can be purchased from the museum shop.

You can find out more about Crawley Art Society here
You can find out more about Crawley Camera Club here
You can find out more about Crawley Writers Circle here

6 June 2024 - 27 July 2024
Free admission, donations welcomed

To celebrate their 80th anniversary we have been joined by the Nautical Training Corps.

The exhibition covers the founding of the Nautical Training Corps and some of the activities that members can expect to get involved in.

You can find out more about the Nautical Training Corps here.

4 April 2024 - 1 June 2024
Free admission, donations welcomed

Crawley LGBT+’s ‘Queer Crawley Heritage Project’ aims to explore and document the lives and experiences of our local LGBTQ+ population – to capture what it means to be queer in Crawley, now and in the past.

Our Interviewees- Vince, Skye, Gill, Derek and Carl told us their stories for this exhibition.

Find out more about Crawley LGBT here 

 

1 February 2024 - 30 March 2024
Free admission, donations welcomed

An exhibition of costumes from Sci-Fi Fantasy Adventure Movies.

The shows included are

Star Trek Enterprise

The Hunger Games

Men in Black 3

Red Dwarf

Earth Final Conflict

Andromeda

Ultra Violet

Dune Mini Series

Dune

Thunderbirds

Stargate Atlantis

Cowboys and Aliens

Ender’s Game

Sontaran Helmet

Gerry Anderson’s Space Precinct

Mars Attacks

Aliens in the Family

 

Half-term sci-fi family fun

Grab a pencil and a clue sheet and complete our intergalactic trail. An alien force has taken over the museum! They plan to steal all the objects to help them understand how we used to live. Can you find all the clues in the galleries, work out the secret code to the lock box and stop the launch before it’s too late?

Become your own sci-fi fashion designer. Using ideas from the exhibition and your imagination design your own costume in our sci-fi fashion house. Once finished, share your ideas with us and get the ‘studio ready approval stamp’ for your design.

Available during museum opening hours 10.30 – 16.00 Thursday, Friday and Saturday every week

Suggested donation £3/person entry which includes all the family activities.

 

Events

Wednesday, 20th March 2024 Science Fiction Under the Surface
Join sci-fi authors Dr Una McCormack and Guy Adams as they discuss writing for Doctor Who, Star Trek and much more. Book here 

 

Thank you to all of our supporters who made this exhibition possible. Freeman Brothers, Crawley Community Charity Shop, The Sussex Archaeological Society, Crawley Wordfest, Pop Up Culture Crawley.

7 December 2023 - 27 January 2024
Free admission, donations welcomed

The Crawley Town FC exhibition tells the story of our club, 1890s to 2023, from West Sussex Junior league to the English Football League, through pictures of teams, supporters, managers and club legends and characters from 1890 to the current day. There is also a  CTFC museum trail plus a design a kit competition with prizes donated by CTFC and Brick Borrow. If you support Crawley Town, this exhibition is a must, if you don’t there will be exhibits that you can relate to your own club, family and friends.

 

Throughout the exhibition there is a chance to enter our “Design a football shirt for CTFC” competition, with prizes of; Family Ticket (2 adults 2 children for a CTFC Home EFL game), Signed Crawley Town Shirt, Both donated by Crawley Town FC, One Month’s subscription to Brick Borrow (The Lego brick borrowing service), For Primary school, Secondary school and adult age groups.

 

On Sunday 17th December, we had our Football Family Fun Day, which included a performances GFH Banks by Half-Time Orange in the exhibition space. There is a video of the performance below. You can find out more about Half-Time Orange here.

5 October 2023 - 25 November 2023
Free admission, donations welcomed

Diverse Crawley and Crawley Campaign Against Racism return for their annual exhibition. This years themes include Black History Month and the Climate Emergency.

 

Find out more about Diverse Crawley here 

Find out more about Crawley Campaign Against Racism here 

Find out more about Crawley Interfaith Network here 

3 August 2023 - 30 September 2023
Free admission, donations welcomed

Crawley Museum welcomes Crawley Arts Society back for their second exhibition with us. This year they are joined by Crawley Camera Club and Crawley Writers Circle to make this exhibition a presentation of art, photography and writing by local people.

Some of the art works are available to buy through Crawley Art Society with a portion of the money being donated to support Crawley Museums in our continued work.

Some examples of previous work by Crawley Writers Circle can be purchased from the museum shop.

You can find out more about Crawley Art Society here
You can find out more about Crawley Camera Club here
You can find out more about Crawley Writers Circle here

1 June 2023 - 29 July 2023
Free admission, donations welcomed

The Belonging in Crawley Exhibition, in Crawley Museum, represents the culmination of a year of workshops and discussions with community groups and individuals, exploring the theme of Belonging.

The project is run by Crawley Museums and funded by Art Council England.

Like the museum itself, Belonging In Crawley, celebrates a sense of place and home. Some have chosen to create works that show the connections that make us part of a community. Some have celebrated the town itself, and some have chosen to take inspiration from everyday household objects in the museum’s collection and see where their imagination takes them.

There were images and thoughts from a wide range of participants and there were opportunities for visitors to the Museum to take part in further workshops and contribute their own thoughts on Belonging, while the exhibition was on display.