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Arch One and the Museum Shop
Home Arch One What to See Visitor Information Location Online News & Events Education Links Our Sponsors	Arch One When you step through the door of the main museum entrance, you’ll find yourself in the Museum's first arch, which is free to visit. This includes the Museum Shop (styled to look like a railway station platform) the Brighton Visitor Information Point, with brochures and free maps of the area, the museum toilets, and a range of exhibits including an overhead quarter-scale radio-controlled Spitfire fighter plane, a motorised Meccano Ferris wheel, a range of miscellaneous exhibits, and the “Glamour of Brighton” display cases. Private administration rooms are to the right and there’s a general workshop overhead and a specialist restoration area at the rear of the arch, which is off-limits to visitors. To the left are the steps up to the museum’s main three-arch exhibition space. The Museum Shop The museum shop has a carousel display at the rear that carries a range of “stocking filler” toys and activity sets starting at 50p, and has also recently started selling a selection from the Hornby trains and Games Workshop “World of Warcraft” and “Lord of the Rings” ranges. The Hornby starter sets include everything necessary to make a working model railway layout, including transformer, train, track, and a preprinted “landscape” mat that allows the set to be covered and slid under a bed when not in use. "Commission Sales" cabinets Under the museum counter and in two vertical cabinets flanking the entrance is a range of specialist “red spot” items sold on commission for customers, which usually contains a range of ships, Dinky toys and other miscellaneous wheeled toys, and Gauge 1, 0, 00 and H0 locomotives and rolling stock for sale, typically including items from Hornby, Wrenn, Marklin, Triang, Fleischman, Roco, Trix and others. These cabinets have a constant turnover of stock, and their contents make a fascinating exhibit in their own right. Selling prices are agreed between the owners and our expert specialists. Donation stock Not all toy and model donations to the museum are of museum quality, or museum rarity. Where the owners agree, these items are put on sale in the shop to raise funds for the museum, and to ensure that the pieces go to good homes. Old track or rolling stock may not have a great financial value, but might nevertheless be exactly what someone out there with an incomplete collection or layout may be looking for.

Arch One and the Museum Shop

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When you step through the door of the main museum entrance, you’ll find yourself in the Museum's first arch, which is free to visit.

This includes the Museum Shop (styled to look like a railway station platform) the Brighton Visitor Information Point, with brochures and free maps of the area, the museum toilets, and a range of exhibits including an overhead quarter-scale radio-controlled Spitfire fighter plane, a motorised Meccano Ferris wheel, a range of miscellaneous exhibits, and the “Glamour of Brighton” display cases. Private administration rooms are to the right and there’s a general workshop overhead and a specialist restoration area at the rear of the arch, which is off-limits to visitors.

To the left are the steps up to the museum’s main three-arch exhibition space.

The Museum Shop

The museum shop has a carousel display at the rear that carries a range of “stocking filler” toys and activity sets starting at 50p, and has also recently started selling a selection from the Hornby trains and Games Workshop “World of Warcraft” and “Lord of the Rings” ranges. The Hornby starter sets include everything necessary to make a working model railway layout, including transformer, train, track, and a preprinted “landscape” mat that allows the set to be covered and slid under a bed when not in use.

"Commission Sales" cabinets

Under the museum counter and in two vertical cabinets flanking the entrance is a range of specialist “red spot” items sold on commission for customers, which usually contains a range of ships, Dinky toys and other miscellaneous wheeled toys, and Gauge 1, 0, 00 and H0 locomotives and rolling stock for sale, typically including items from Hornby, Wrenn, Marklin, Triang, Fleischman, Roco, Trix and others. These cabinets have a constant turnover of stock, and their contents make a fascinating exhibit in their own right. Selling prices are agreed between the owners and our expert specialists.

shop 'commission sales' display, misc. cars

Donation stock

Not all toy and model donations to the museum are of museum quality, or museum rarity. Where the owners agree, these items are put on sale in the shop to raise funds for the museum, and to ensure that the pieces go to good homes. Old track or rolling stock may not have a great financial value, but might nevertheless be exactly what someone out there with an incomplete collection or layout may be looking for.