List of museums in East Sussex

This list of museums in East 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.

Museums

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Name Image Town/City Region Type Summary
1066 Battle Of Hastings, Abbey & BattlefieldBattleRotherHistoryOperated by the English Heritage, includes the abbey ruins, visitor centre, battlefield site
Alfriston Clergy HouseAlfristonWealdenHistoric houseOperated by the National Trust, 14th century Wealden hall house with a thatched roof
Anne of Cleves HouseLewesLewesHistoric house15th century hall house with local history displays, furniture and decorative items from different periods
Bateman'sBurwashRotherHistoric houseOperated by the National Trust, 17th-century house owned by author Rudyard Kipling, includes working watermill
Battle Museum of Local HistoryBattleRotherLocalwebsite, local history, prehistoric, Roman, medieval, 17th/18th centuries, and local industries such as iron, leather and gunpowder
Bentley Wildfowl and Motor MuseumHallandWealdenMultiplePalladian mansion with furnishings, automobile museum, gardens, wildfowl reserve, miniature steam train, woodlands
Bexhill MuseumBexhill-on-SeaRotherMultipleLocal history, natural history, fashion, dinosaurs, stone-age life, Ancient Egyptians, military, world cultures, British motor racing
Bluebell RailwayFletchingLewesTransportHeritage railway with museum displays at the Sheffield Park railway station
Bodiam CastleRobertsbridgeRotherHistoric houseOperated by the National Trust, 14th century moated castle in ruins, periodic living history demonstrations
Booth Museum of Natural HistoryBrightonBrighton and HoveNatural historyVictorian-style dioramas of British birds in their habitat settings, butterflies, British fossils, animal bones
Brede WaterworksBredeRotherTechnologyFormer waterworks with working steam engines
Brighton Fishing MuseumBrightonBrighton and HoveMaritimeLocal fishing industry, boats
Brighton Museum & Art GalleryBrightonBrighton and HoveMultipleArt, decorative arts, natural history, puppets, fashion, world culture artifacts, Egyptian artifacts, local history
Brighton Toy and Model MuseumBrightonBrighton and HoveToyFormerly the Sussex Toy And Model Museum, toys, dolls, model trains, puppets, penny arcade games
British EngineeriumHoveBrighton and HoveTechnologyVictorian pumping station with beam engines, planned museum
Charleston FarmhouseFirleLewesHistoric houseCountry home of the Bloomsbury group, interior decorations by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, exhibit gallery for fine and decorative art
De La Warr PavilionBexhill-on-SeaRotherArtContemporary arts centre
Ditchling Museum of Art + CraftDitchlingLewesArtwebsite, local art, crafts and applied art
Eastbourne Heritage CentreEastbourneEastbourneLocalwebsite, operated by the Eastbourne Society
Eastbourne RNLI MuseumEastbourneEastbourneMaritimewebsite, history of area lifeboat rescuing, operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
FabricaBrightonBrighton and HoveArtwebsite, located in a former church, contemporary visual arts exhibitions
Farley Farm HouseChiddinglyWealdenArtHome of photographer Lee Miller and biographer of Picasso, Roland Penrose, exhibits of Surrealist and Modern art
Firle PlaceFirleLewesHistoric house18th-century country estate with fine art and furnishings, gardens
Flower Makers' MuseumHastingsHastingsTextileinformation, original company tools of the trade, machines and fabrics for making artificial flowers
Glynde PlaceGlyndeLewesHistoric houseElizabethan manor house, gardens
Grange Museum & Art GalleryRottingdeanBrighton and HoveMultiplewebsite, local history, art
Great DixterNorthiamRotherHistoric houseMedieval timber-framed manor house, Arts and Crafts style gardens
Hastings Fishermen's MuseumHastingsHastingsMaritimeLocal fishing industry, boats, The Stade
Hastings History HouseHastingsHastingsLocalwebsite, local history, operated by the Old Hastings Preservation Society
Hastings Lifeboat StationHastingsHastingsMaritimewebsite, visitor centre with film, viewing of the lifeboats
Hastings Museum and Art GalleryHastingsHastingsMultipleArt, local history, art and artifacts of the Indian subcontinent, decorative arts, natural history, Native American artifacts
Heritage Mill, North ChaileyChaileyLewesMillEarly 19th century windmill
Herstmonceux MuseumHerstmonceuxWealdenHIstoryold electricity generating station, operated by the Lime Park Heritage Trust[1]
Hove Museum and Art GalleryHoveBrighton and HoveMultipleArt, contemporary crafts, local history, toys, early cinema artifacts
How We Lived ThenEastbourneEastbourneHistorywebsite, authentic Victorian period shops, room settings, displays covering 100 years of shopping and social history
Jerwood GalleryHastingsHastingsArtContemporary art gallery, collection of 20th and 21st century British art
Kent and East Sussex RailwayNorthiamRotherRailwayHeritage railway, accessed at the Northiam railway station
Lamb HouseRyeRotherHistoric houseOperated by the National Trust, 18th-century house with literary connections including Henry James, E.F. Benson and Rumer Godden
Lavender LineIsfieldWealdenRailwayHeritage railway and exhibits including model railway at the Isfield railway station
Lewes CastleLewesLewesHistory11th century motte and bailey castle, includes Barbican House Museum with archaeology and medieval life displays, and the Town Model of Lewes
Mechanical Memories MuseumBrightonBrighton and HoveAmusementwebsite, working vintage penny slot machines
Michelham PrioryUpper DickerWealdenOpen airMedieval priory house with furnishings from different periods, historic watermill, rope making museum, replica Iron Age roundhouse and other buildings, art exhibits, gardens
Monk's HouseRodmellLewesHistoric houseOperated by the National Trust, 18th century cottage home of author Virginia Woolf and husband Leonard Woolf, connections to the Bloomsbury group
Newhaven FortNewhavenLewesMilitaryNapoleonic-era fort and Martello tower with area military artefacts and memorabilia, exhibits on local military, World War I and World War II
Newhaven MuseumNewhavenLewesMultiplewebsite, local history, maritime artifacts, operated by the Newhaven Historical Society
Nutley WindmillNutleyWealdenMillEarly 19th century windmill
Observatory Science CenterHerstmonceuxWealdenSciencewebsite, located at Herstmonceux Castle estate
Old Police Cells MuseumBrightonBrighton and HoveLaw enforcementHistory of the Sussex Police, housed in the basement of Brighton Town Hall
Ovenden's MillPolegateWealdenMillEarly 19th century windmill
Paradise Park, NewhavenNewhavenLewesNatural historywebsite, includes Planet Earth Museum with dinosaurs, fossils, geology, gardens, planthouses
Pevensey Court House MuseumPevenseyWealdenLocalwebsite, located in the former courthouse, includes prison cells, exercise yard and stocks, displays of local history
Preston Manor, BrightonBrightonBrighton and HoveHistoric houseEarly 20th century period Edwardian manor
Redoubt Fortress & Military MuseumEastbourneEastbourneMilitaryNapoleonic-era fort with area military artefacts and memorabilia, includes collections of The Royal Sussex Regiment, Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, vehicles, weapons, uniforms, medals
Regency Town HouseHoveBrighton and HoveLocalwebsite, 1820s townhouse with focus on the architecture and social history of Brighton & Hove between the 1780s and 1840s
Royal PavilionBrightonBrighton and HoveHistoric houseEarly 19th century former royal seaside retreat, built in Indo-Saracenic style with lavish decorations and chinoiserie furnishings
Rye Art GalleryRyeRotherArtwebsite, information
Rye Castle MuseumRyeRotherMultipleIncludes the Ypres Tower of the medieval castle, and the East Street Site with local history exhibits
Rye Heritage CentreRyeRotherLocalwebsite, local history using sound and light show, working collection of old pier amusement machines
Seaford MuseumSeafordLewesLocalLocated in a Martello tower, local history, military, period stores and rooms, household items, model railway, maritime heritage
Shipwreck MuseumHastingsHastingsMaritimewebsite, artifacts from local shipwrecks, rocks and fossils, changes in the coast, coastal defense
Stanmer Rural MuseumStanmerBrighton and HoveAgriculturewebsite, rural life artifacts, farm tools and equipment, wagons, reconstructed blacksmith's forge, household items, operated by the Stanmer Preservation Society
Stone Cross WindmillStone CrossWealdenMillLate 19th century windmill
TownerEastbourneEastbourneArtContemporary art museum and gallery
Volk's Electric RailwayBrightonBrighton and HoveRailwayHeritage railway that runs along a length of the seafront of Brighton
West Blatchington WindmillWest BlatchingtonBrighton and HoveMillEarly 19th century windmill
Winchelsea Court Hall MuseumWinchelseaRotherLocalwebsite, local history, maps, models, pictures, seals, local pottery and items of daily life
Windmill Hill MillHerstmonceuxWealdenMillEarly 19th century windmill

Defunct museums

References

  1. ↑ "Home". Herstmonceux Museum. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Official site". Musgrave Museum. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015. THE MUSGRAVE COLLECTION HAS CLOSED FOR LACK OF FUNDING. THE COLLECTION HAS BEEN CATALOGUED AND ARCHIVED - WE HOPE TO MOUNT EXHIBITIONS IN THE FUTURE.
  3. ↑ "Official site". Yesterday's World. Retrieved 11 January 2016. It is with sadness that we announce the closure of Yesterday's World on 1st November 2015.

See also

  • Visitor attractions in East Sussex
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