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 |
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| 1066 Battle Of Hastings, Abbey & Battlefield | Battle | Rother | History | Operated by the English Heritage, includes the abbey ruins, visitor centre, battlefield site | |
| Alfriston Clergy House | Alfriston | Wealden | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 14th century Wealden hall house with a thatched roof | |
| Anne of Cleves House | Lewes | Lewes | Historic house | 15th century hall house with local history displays, furniture and decorative items from different periods | |
| Bateman's | Burwash | Rother | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 17th-century house owned by author Rudyard Kipling, includes working watermill | |
| Battle Museum of Local History | Battle | Rother | Local | website, local history, prehistoric, Roman, medieval, 17th/18th centuries, and local industries such as iron, leather and gunpowder | |
| Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum | Halland | Wealden | Multiple | Palladian mansion with furnishings, automobile museum, gardens, wildfowl reserve, miniature steam train, woodlands | |
| Bexhill Museum | Bexhill-on-Sea | Rother | Multiple | Local history, natural history, fashion, dinosaurs, stone-age life, Ancient Egyptians, military, world cultures, British motor racing | |
| Bluebell Railway | Fletching | Lewes | Transport | Heritage railway with museum displays at the Sheffield Park railway station | |
| Bodiam Castle | Robertsbridge | Rother | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 14th century moated castle in ruins, periodic living history demonstrations | |
| Booth Museum of Natural History | Brighton | Brighton and Hove | Natural history | Victorian-style dioramas of British birds in their habitat settings, butterflies, British fossils, animal bones | |
| Brede Waterworks | Brede | Rother | Technology | Former waterworks with working steam engines | |
| Brighton Fishing Museum | Brighton | Brighton and Hove | Maritime | Local fishing industry, boats | |
| Brighton Museum & Art Gallery | Brighton | Brighton and Hove | Multiple | Art, decorative arts, natural history, puppets, fashion, world culture artifacts, Egyptian artifacts, local history | |
| Brighton Toy and Model Museum | Brighton | Brighton and Hove | Toy | Formerly the Sussex Toy And Model Museum, toys, dolls, model trains, puppets, penny arcade games | |
| British Engineerium | Hove | Brighton and Hove | Technology | Victorian pumping station with beam engines, planned museum | |
| Charleston Farmhouse | Firle | Lewes | Historic house | Country home of the Bloomsbury group, interior decorations by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, exhibit gallery for fine and decorative art | |
| De La Warr Pavilion | Bexhill-on-Sea | Rother | Art | Contemporary arts centre | |
| Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft | Ditchling | Lewes | Art | website, local art, crafts and applied art | |
| Eastbourne Heritage Centre | Eastbourne | Eastbourne | Local | website, operated by the Eastbourne Society | |
| Eastbourne RNLI Museum | Eastbourne | Eastbourne | Maritime | website, history of area lifeboat rescuing, operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution | |
| Fabrica | Brighton | Brighton and Hove | Art | website, located in a former church, contemporary visual arts exhibitions | |
| Farley Farm House | Chiddingly | Wealden | Art | Home of photographer Lee Miller and biographer of Picasso, Roland Penrose, exhibits of Surrealist and Modern art | |
| Firle Place | Firle | Lewes | Historic house | 18th-century country estate with fine art and furnishings, gardens | |
| Flower Makers' Museum | Hastings | Hastings | Textile | information, original company tools of the trade, machines and fabrics for making artificial flowers | |
| Glynde Place | Glynde | Lewes | Historic house | Elizabethan manor house, gardens | |
| Grange Museum & Art Gallery | Rottingdean | Brighton and Hove | Multiple | website, local history, art | |
| Great Dixter | Northiam | Rother | Historic house | Medieval timber-framed manor house, Arts and Crafts style gardens | |
| Hastings Fishermen's Museum | Hastings | Hastings | Maritime | Local fishing industry, boats, The Stade | |
| Hastings History House | Hastings | Hastings | Local | website, local history, operated by the Old Hastings Preservation Society | |
| Hastings Lifeboat Station | Hastings | Hastings | Maritime | website, visitor centre with film, viewing of the lifeboats | |
| Hastings Museum and Art Gallery | Hastings | Hastings | Multiple | Art, local history, art and artifacts of the Indian subcontinent, decorative arts, natural history, Native American artifacts | |
| Heritage Mill, North Chailey | Chailey | Lewes | Mill | Early 19th century windmill | |
| Herstmonceux Museum | Herstmonceux | Wealden | History | old electricity generating station, operated by the Lime Park Heritage Trust[1] | |
| Hove Museum and Art Gallery | Hove | Brighton and Hove | Multiple | Art, contemporary crafts, local history, toys, early cinema artifacts | |
| How We Lived Then | Eastbourne | Eastbourne | History | website, authentic Victorian period shops, room settings, displays covering 100 years of shopping and social history | |
| Jerwood Gallery | Hastings | Hastings | Art | Contemporary art gallery, collection of 20th and 21st century British art | |
| Kent and East Sussex Railway | Northiam | Rother | Railway | Heritage railway, accessed at the Northiam railway station | |
| Lamb House | Rye | Rother | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th-century house with literary connections including Henry James, E.F. Benson and Rumer Godden | |
| Lavender Line | Isfield | Wealden | Railway | Heritage railway and exhibits including model railway at the Isfield railway station | |
| Lewes Castle | Lewes | Lewes | History | 11th century motte and bailey castle, includes Barbican House Museum with archaeology and medieval life displays, and the Town Model of Lewes | |
| Mechanical Memories Museum | Brighton | Brighton and Hove | Amusement | website, working vintage penny slot machines | |
| Michelham Priory | Upper Dicker | Wealden | Open air | Medieval priory house with furnishings from different periods, historic watermill, rope making museum, replica Iron Age roundhouse and other buildings, art exhibits, gardens | |
| Monk's House | Rodmell | Lewes | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th century cottage home of author Virginia Woolf and husband Leonard Woolf, connections to the Bloomsbury group | |
| Newhaven Fort | Newhaven | Lewes | Military | Napoleonic-era fort and Martello tower with area military artefacts and memorabilia, exhibits on local military, World War I and World War II | |
| Newhaven Museum | Newhaven | Lewes | Multiple | website, local history, maritime artifacts, operated by the Newhaven Historical Society | |
| Nutley Windmill | Nutley | Wealden | Mill | Early 19th century windmill | |
| Observatory Science Center | Herstmonceux | Wealden | Science | website, located at Herstmonceux Castle estate | |
| Old Police Cells Museum | Brighton | Brighton and Hove | Law enforcement | History of the Sussex Police, housed in the basement of Brighton Town Hall | |
| Ovenden's Mill | Polegate | Wealden | Mill | Early 19th century windmill | |
| Paradise Park, Newhaven | Newhaven | Lewes | Natural history | website, includes Planet Earth Museum with dinosaurs, fossils, geology, gardens, planthouses | |
| Pevensey Court House Museum | Pevensey | Wealden | Local | website, located in the former courthouse, includes prison cells, exercise yard and stocks, displays of local history | |
| Preston Manor, Brighton | Brighton | Brighton and Hove | Historic house | Early 20th century period Edwardian manor | |
| Redoubt Fortress & Military Museum | Eastbourne | Eastbourne | Military | Napoleonic-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 House | Hove | Brighton and Hove | Local | website, 1820s townhouse with focus on the architecture and social history of Brighton & Hove between the 1780s and 1840s | |
| Royal Pavilion | Brighton | Brighton and Hove | Historic house | Early 19th century former royal seaside retreat, built in Indo-Saracenic style with lavish decorations and chinoiserie furnishings | |
| Rye Art Gallery | Rye | Rother | Art | website, information | |
| Rye Castle Museum | Rye | Rother | Multiple | Includes the Ypres Tower of the medieval castle, and the East Street Site with local history exhibits | |
| Rye Heritage Centre | Rye | Rother | Local | website, local history using sound and light show, working collection of old pier amusement machines | |
| Seaford Museum | Seaford | Lewes | Local | Located in a Martello tower, local history, military, period stores and rooms, household items, model railway, maritime heritage | |
| Shipwreck Museum | Hastings | Hastings | Maritime | website, artifacts from local shipwrecks, rocks and fossils, changes in the coast, coastal defense | |
| Stanmer Rural Museum | Stanmer | Brighton and Hove | Agriculture | website, rural life artifacts, farm tools and equipment, wagons, reconstructed blacksmith's forge, household items, operated by the Stanmer Preservation Society | |
| Stone Cross Windmill | Stone Cross | Wealden | Mill | Late 19th century windmill | |
| Towner | Eastbourne | Eastbourne | Art | Contemporary art museum and gallery | |
| Volk's Electric Railway | Brighton | Brighton and Hove | Railway | Heritage railway that runs along a length of the seafront of Brighton | |
| West Blatchington Windmill | West Blatchington | Brighton and Hove | Mill | Early 19th century windmill | |
| Winchelsea Court Hall Museum | Winchelsea | Rother | Local | Local history, maps, models, pictures, seals, local pottery and items of daily life | |
| Windmill Hill Mill | Herstmonceux | Wealden | Mill | Early 19th century windmill |
Defunct museums
editBentley Wildflower and Motor Museum is no longer operating, despite there being a ‘brown sign’ on the main road[4]
References
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Museums in East Sussex.
- ^ "Home". Herstmonceux Museum. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ local resident observation