The Booth Museum

If you ever wanted to see what a quirky Victorian collector’s private assembly of stuffed animals looks like, here’s your chance. The Booth Museum lies off the beaten track, tucked behind the Hove Green park – the perfect spot to hole up on rainy days. It’s technically a natural history museum, with year-round exhibitions on local fossil collections, a Victorian study and some pretty terrifying iguanas – á la Norman Bates. Plus, it’s free, so what more could you ask for? Recommended by local insider Clare Scott