The redeveloped Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, which reopened on 4 May 2002, was part of a city-centre regeneration scheme aiming to create a major arts and culture centre around the Grade 1 Listed Royal Pavilion Estate.

Brighton holds many collections of national/international importance, but key to the redisplay strategy was to create within the new galleries 'a sense of place' – open, fun, contemporary, alternative and visually exciting, reflecting the unique character and

history of the city of Brighton. The past – the rich collections of cultural artefacts – now engage with the city's different cultures and communities. Local groups and enthusiasts were involved in the redisplays; a Hindu shrine in the World Art Gallery was redisplayed in collaboration with the local Hindu community.

New displays, such as the Performance, Body and Fashion and Style galleries, link to form a sequence of related themes. The Performance Gallery, for example, hosts objects from Les Ballets 33 that are juxtaposed with costumes and puppets from Asia and Africa alongside contemporary sculpture by Sokari Douglas Camp, Brighton street festival art and the traditional Punch and Judy.

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