List of museums in West Sussex facts for kids

This list of museums in West Sussex, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Name	Image	Town/City	Region	Type	Summary
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre		Amberley	Horsham	Open-air	36-acre (150,000 m2) site dedicated to industry, communications and transport, includes Amberley Museum Railway
Arundel Castle		Arundel	Arun	Historic house	Restored medieval castle with paintings and furniture, tapestries and stained glass, china and clocks, sculpture and carving, heraldry and armour in room settings
Arundel Museum		Arundel	Arun	Local	Local and maritime history
Bignor Roman Villa		Bignor	Chichester	Archaeology	Remains of a Roman home and farm with mosaic floors
Bognor Regis Museum		Bognor Regis	Arun	Multiple	website, local history, fossils, shop displays including a toy shop, ironmongers, cobbler and wireless shop with historic radio and television equipment, Victorian kitchen, railway memorabilia
Burgess Hill Museum		Burgess Hill	Mid Sussex	Local	website, local history, culture
Cass Sculpture Foundation		Goodwood	Chichester	Art	Outdoor sculpture park
Clayton Windmills		Clayton	Mid Sussex	Mill	19th century post and tower windmills
Coultershaw Beam Pump		Petworth	Chichester	Technology	website, 18th century waterwheel-driven three-throw beam pump
Cowdray House		Midhurst	Chichester	Historic house	Tours of the ruins of a 16th-century Tudor house partially destroyed by fire in 1793
Crawley Museum Centre		Crawley	Crawley	Local	website, local history, culture, archaeology
Cuckfield Museum		Cuckfield	Mid Sussex	Local	website, local history, culture
East Grinstead Museum		East Grinstead	Mid Sussex	Local	website, local history, culture
Fishbourne Roman Palace		Fishbourne	Chichester	Archaeology	Excavated Roman palace with mosaic floor, reconstructed garden
Goodwood House		Goodwood	Chichester	Historic house	Jacobean country house with state rooms, art collection
Hammerwood Park		East Grinstead	Mid Sussex	Historic house	1972 country house designed by Benjamin Latrobe
Henfield Museum		Henfield	Horsham	Local	website, local history, culture
High Salvington Windmill		High Salvington	Worthing	Mill	18th century post windmill
Horsham Museum		Horsham	Horsham	Multiple	Local history, culture, decorative arts, crafts, photography, reconstructed blacksmith and wheelwright's shops, Percy Bysshe Shelley, costumes, toys
Ifield Water Mill		Crawley	Crawley	Mill	19th century weaterboarded watermill
Littlehampton Museum		Littlehampton	Arun	Local	website, local and maritime history, art exhibits
Marlipins Museum		Shoreham-by-Sea	Adur	Local	Local and maritime history
Nymans		Handcross	Mid Sussex	Historic house	website, Late 19th century Gothic-style house destroyed by fire in 1947.
Newtimber Place		Newtimber	Mid Sussex	Historic house	website, 15th century moated house open by guided tour appointment
The Novium		Chichester	Chichester	Local	Local history, geology, archaeology
Oldland Mill		Keymer	Mid Sussex	Mill	18th century post windmills
Otter Gallery		Chichester	Chichester	Art	website, contemporary art gallery of the University of Chichester
Oxmarket Centre of Arts		Chichester	Chichester	Art	website
Pallant House Gallery		Chichester	Chichester	Art	Collection focus is modern British art
Parham Park		Cootham	Horsham	Historic house	Elizabethan house and gardens
Petworth Cottage Museum		Petworth	Chichester	Historic house	Restored 1910 period worker's cottage for a seamstress at Petworth House
Petworth House		Petworth	Chichester	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, late 17th-century mansion with important collection of paintings and sculptures, 700 acre (2.8 km2) landscaped park designed by Capability Brown
The Priest House, West Hoathly		West Hoathly	Mid Sussex	Historic house	website, early 15th century timber-framed hall-house with furnished rooms displaying 17th & 18th century country furniture, ironwork, embroidery and domestic artifacts
Sackville College		East Grinstead	Mid Sussex	Historic site	Jacobean almshouse with chapel and great hall, open for tours
Saint Hill Manor		Saint Hill Green	Mid Sussex	Historic house	Head office for the Church of Scientology in the United Kingdom, 18th century house reflecting its different owners
Shoreham Airport Visitor Centre		Shoreham-by-Sea	Adur	Aviation	Area aviation history and memorabilia, operates airport tours
St. Mary's House & Gardens		Bramber	Horsham	Historic house	website, late 15th century timber-framed house on a site associated with the Knights Templar
Standen		East Grinstead	Mid Sussex	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, late 19th century Arts and Crafts house and gardens
Stansted House		Stoughton	Chichester	Historic house	Edwardian country house and park
Steyning Museum		Steyning	Horsham	Local	website, local history, culture
Storrington Museum		Storrington	Horsham	Local	website, local history, culture
Tangmere Military Aviation Museum		Tangmere	Chichester	Aviation	History of the former RAF Tangmere airfield, historic military aircraft, activities during the Battle of Britain
TimeMachineFun Center		East Ashling	Chichester	Horology	website, science and technology of clocks, time and measurement
Uppark		South Harting	Chichester	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, restored 18th century Georgian house with period paintings, furniture and ceramics, Victorian servant's quarters, garden
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum		Singleton	Chichester	Open-air	Features nearly 50 historic buildings dating from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries, along with gardens, farm animals, walks and a lake
West Dean College		West Dean	Chichester	Art	Exhibits of fine art, craft, weavings
Wings Museum		Balcombe	Mid Sussex	Aviation	website, history of RAF Redhill in World War II, aero engines, propellers, artefacts, uniforms, aircraft parts, equipment, local history, Home Front items
Worthing Museum and Art Gallery		Worthing	Worthing	Multiple	Local history, art, costumes, textiles, toys and dolls, archaeology, fine and decorative arts, coins

See also

• Category:Tourist attractions in West Sussex