The Brighton Museum & Art Gallery is a public museum and art gallery in and in the city of Brighton and Hove, England. It is part of the "Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton and Hove" group. The building where the collection is located is part of the Royal Pavilion Estate and was built in honor of the Prince of Wales who later became King George IV and was completed in 1805.

The palace became the property of the city in 1850.

A year later, a section of the Pavilion was set aside for annual art exhibitions. Since 1902, the museum has occupied its present location.

The Brighton Museum & Art collection houses a wide range of objects covering decorative art, applied arts, European, British and American design pieces including glass, ceramics, glass, metal objects, furniture and jewelry. The section dedicated to natural sciences includes the Edward Booth collection of British Birds, zoological and geological collections for a total of half a million insects and an extensive collection of books, approximately fourteen thousand.

The Fine Art Collection contains paintings, sculptures, prints, techniques and drawings from the 15th to the 20th century. There are notable pieces of old European masters, most notably the Italian, German, French and Dutch schools. Among the American artists present, noteworthy are Larry Poons and Frank Stella.

In addition to the main collections, the museum also houses the collections of costumes and textile fabrics, toys (from the 18th century to the present), film and media with magic lantern slides and projectors, equipment for cinematography,

local and social history, archeology with a large collection from Egypt.

The Preston Manor collection contains items bequeathed to the manor house in 1932 including silverware, furniture, silverware, pottery, paintings and rare books.