A touring exhibition of curiosities from Leasingstede Museum comes to Worthing

Sussex archaeologists and local historians, beware. A new exhibition is coming to Worthing Museum & Art Gallery that will show alarming gaps in your expert knowledge.
 
If you don’t know what the Museum’s mammoth tusks contributed to the English language, or what strange fossils were found beside Worthing pier, and haven’t heard the unusual tale of the town’s affable smuggler, Norman “Figgy” Nottrowe, prepare to be enlightened.
 
Leasingstede Museum, an eccentric West Country folk museum, is ready to provide the answers, in a touring show entitled “A Leaf on a Sea Breeze”, which opens on Saturday July 7 and will be on display until Saturday November 24.
 
As well as artefacts and stories relating to Worthing and the surrounding countryside, the curators will be bringing apparently prehistoric, Roman and Saxon finds, and unfamiliar rural tools such as a daub wattler, a nettle prod and a leaf rustler.
 
Jane Williams, the creator of Leasingstede Museum, says about her ongoing artwork “Rare and valuable museum exhibits often don’t look particularly exciting – chunks of old pots, bits of metal, dusty lumps of wood and stone. But at Leasingstede, the curators make a virtue out of their collection’s lack of historical truth and enjoy their freedom to acquire whatever they feel like displaying.”       

For more information on the A Leaf on a Sea Breeze exhibition and the workshops, visit worthingmuseum.co.uk or call Worthing Museum on 01903 221 448.