ALBION’S promotion and its past glory days from the top flight and Wembley will be celebrated in a new museum exhibition.

The Royal Pavilion and Museums is marking the cub’s historic promotion to the Premier League with a new pop-up display.

Soaring Seagulls will open on Sunday and will coincide with the club’s promotion parade along the city’s seafront.

Thousands of Seagulls supporters are expected to flock from all across the county this weekend for the parade celebrating the club’s promotion to the Premier League which was clinched with victory over Wigan Athletic last month.

The display will feature objects and items from the club’s rollercoaster 116 year history that the Royal Pavilion and Museums has in its collections.

Across two display cases. fans will be able to reminisce and dream over mementoes from the club’s promotion to the old First Division in 1979 - the last time the club was in the top flight.

Also on display will be the shirt worn by Albion defender and England international Gary Stevens as he scored a late equaliser in the 1983 FA Cup Final against Manchester United.

Sadly the club went on to lose the replay 4-0 and dropped out of the top division in the same season.

Fans will also be able to look at emotive painting Saturday Afternoon from 1953 by Frederick Yates, depicting the club’s old Goldstone Ground.

The work by the Lancashire artist, who was inspired by L S Lowry, captures the hustle and bustle of matchday at the ground which was Albion’s home for 95 years.

It was previously displayed at Hove Museum in 2008 and 2000.

The museum also has in its collection a postcard featuring a photograph of fans watching the Seagulls take on the Robins of Swindon in a Southern League match in March 1914.

The display in the north balcony of Brighton Museum will also include items like programmes, memorabilia and newspaper cuttings representing how far the club has come since it faced relegation 20 years ago, rising up through the divisions and establishing a new home at the American Express Community Stadium at Falmer.

The display will run until Sunday September 3 so fans will still to be able to enjoy the nostalgia through the start of the club’s first ever Premier League season.

Dan Robertson, Local History Curator at Brighton Museum, said: “Royal Pavilion and Museums are keen to celebrate Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club’s promotion to the Premier League, and congratulate them on their achievement.

“We wish the fans and everyone associated with the club all the best for next season - up the Albion.”