List of museums in West Sussex

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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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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | local history, culture, archaeology
Cuckfield Museum |  | Cuckfield | Mid Sussex | Local | local history, culture
East Grinstead Museum |  | East Grinstead | Mid Sussex | Local | 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 | 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 | local and maritime history, art exhibits
Marlipins Museum |  | Shoreham-by-Sea | Adur | Local | Local and maritime

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Nymans |  | Handcross | Mid Sussex | Historic house | Late 19th century Gothic-style house destroyed by fire in 1947.
Newtimber Place |  | Newtimber | Mid Sussex | Historic house | 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 | contemporary art gallery of the University of Chichester
Oxmarket Centre of Arts |  | Chichester | Chichester | Art |
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 | 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 | 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 | local history, culture
Storrington Museum |  | Storrington | Horsham | Local | 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 | 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 | 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

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* Category:Tourist attractions in West Sussex

## References

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* Sussex Museums Group

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Boroughs or districts|

* Adur District
* Arun District
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* Arundel
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* Selsey
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* Southwater
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See also: List of civil parishes in West Sussex

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