Hastings Museum and Art Gallery contains a rich and exotic mixture of fine paintings and china, the cultures of other lands and a contrasting view of local wildlife today and as it would have been 150 million years ago. There are plenty of special features for children with fossils that transform into dinasaurs, a diorama of local animals, two Native American Galleries complete with tipi and buffalo and a display on the Hastings-born conservationist Grey Owl. Television pioneer, John Logie Baird, made his technical breakthrough in Hastings and this is the subject of a display on television history. The most spectacular part of the museum is the magnificent Durbar Hall, constructed for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition of 1886, which contains the Museum's fascinating collections of Asian and Australasian material. These displays are currently beign updated, with the addition of new material from the reserve collection. A Local Studies Research Room was opened in October 2000. This much improved facility provides access to the Borough's archives. Tel: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery contains a rich and exotic mixture of fine paintings and china, the cultures of other lands and a contrasting view of local wildlife today and as it would have been 150 million years ago. There are plenty of special features for children with fossils that transform into dinasaurs, a diorama of local animals, two Native American Galleries complete with tipi and buffalo and a display on the Hastings-born conservationist Grey Owl. Television pioneer, John Logie Baird, made his technical breakthrough in Hastings and this is the subject of a display on television history. The most spectacular part of the museum is the magnificent Durbar Hall, constructed for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition of 1886, which contains the Museum's fascinating collections of Asian and Australasian material. These displays are currently beign updated, with the addition of new material from the reserve collection. A Local Studies Research Room was opened in October 2000. This much improved facility provides access to the Borough's archives. Tel: 01424 781166