List of museums in East Sussex

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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.

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Museums

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NameImageTown/CityRegionTypeSummary
1066 Battle Of Hastings, Abbey & Battlefield Battle England.jpg Battle Rother HistoryOperated by the English Heritage, includes the abbey ruins, visitor centre, battlefield site
Alfriston Clergy House The Clergy House, Alfriston. - geograph.org.uk - 175351.jpg Alfriston Wealden Historic houseOperated by the National Trust, 14th century Wealden hall house with a thatched roof
Anne of Cleves House Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex - geograph.org.uk - 969539.jpg Lewes Lewes Historic house15th century hall house with local history displays, furniture and decorative items from different periods
Bateman's Batemans 1.jpg Burwash RotherHistoric houseOperated by the National Trust, 17th-century house owned by author Rudyard Kipling, includes working watermill
Battle Museum of Local History Battle RotherLocal website, local history, prehistoric, Roman, medieval, 17th/18th centuries, and local industries such as iron, leather and gunpowder
Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum Bentleymm-02.jpg Halland WealdenMultiplePalladian mansion with furnishings, automobile museum, gardens, wildfowl reserve, miniature steam train, woodlands
Bexhill Museum Bexhill Museum Bexhill-on-Sea East Sussex - geograph.org.uk - 133643.jpg Bexhill-on-Sea RotherMultipleLocal history, natural history, fashion, dinosaurs, stone-age life, Ancient Egyptians, military, world cultures, British motor racing
Bluebell Railway Sheffield Park engine shed Bluebell Railway - geograph.org.uk - 978187.jpg Fletching LewesTransportHeritage railway with museum displays at the Sheffield Park railway station
Bodiam Castle Bodiam-castle-10My8-1197.jpg Robertsbridge RotherHistoric houseOperated by the National Trust, 14th century moated castle in ruins, periodic living history demonstrations
Booth Museum of Natural History Brighton Brighton and Hove Natural historyVictorian-style dioramas of British birds in their habitat settings, butterflies, British fossils, animal bones
Brede Waterworks Brede Waterworks, boiler house interior.JPG Brede RotherTechnologyFormer waterworks with working steam engines
Brighton Fishing Museum Brighton Fishing Museum.jpg BrightonBrighton and HoveMaritimeLocal fishing industry, boats
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Brighton Museum and Art Gallery (IoE Code 480508).jpg BrightonBrighton and HoveMultipleArt, decorative arts, natural history, puppets, fashion, world culture artifacts, Egyptian artifacts, local history
Brighton Toy and Model Museum Entrance to Brighton Toy and Model Museum.jpg BrightonBrighton and HoveToyFormerly the Sussex Toy And Model Museum, toys, dolls, model trains, puppets, penny arcade games
British Engineerium The British Engineerium - geograph.org.uk - 116655.jpg Hove Brighton and HoveTechnologyVictorian pumping station with beam engines, planned museum
Charleston Farmhouse Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex.jpg Firle LewesHistoric houseCountry home of the Bloomsbury group, interior decorations by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, exhibit gallery for fine and decorative art
De La Warr Pavilion De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill.jpg Bexhill-on-Sea RotherArtContemporary arts centre
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft Ditchling LewesArt website, local art, crafts and applied art
Eastbourne Heritage Centre Eastbourne Eastbourne Local website, operated by the Eastbourne Society
Eastbourne RNLI Museum Eastbourne RNLI Museum 01.jpg Eastbourne EastbourneMaritime website, history of area lifeboat rescuing, operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Fabrica BrightonBrighton and HoveArt website, located in a former church, contemporary visual arts exhibitions
Farley Farm House Chiddingly WealdenArtHome of photographer Lee Miller and biographer of Picasso, Roland Penrose, exhibits of Surrealist and Modern art
Firle Place Firle Place.jpg Firle LewesHistoric house18th-century country estate with fine art and furnishings, gardens
Flower Makers' Museum Hastings HastingsTextile information, original company tools of the trade, machines and fabrics for making artificial flowers
Glynde Place Glynde Place2.jpg Glynde LewesHistoric houseElizabethan manor house, gardens
Grange Museum & Art Gallery The Grange, The Green, Rottingdean - geograph.org.uk - 227671.jpg Rottingdean Brighton and HoveMultiple website, local history, art
Great Dixter Great Dixter (Northiam, Kent) - geograph.org.uk - 170708.jpg Northiam RotherHistoric houseMedieval timber-framed manor house, Arts and Crafts style gardens
Hastings Fishermen's Museum Former St Nicholas' Church (Fishermen's Church), Old Town, Hastings (IoE Code 294063).JPG Hastings Hastings MaritimeLocal fishing industry, boats, The Stade
Hastings History HouseHastingsHastingsLocal website, local history, operated by the Old Hastings Preservation Society
Hastings Lifeboat StationHastingsHastingsMaritime website, visitor centre with film, viewing of the lifeboats
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery HastingsHastingsMultipleArt, local history, art and artifacts of the Indian subcontinent, decorative arts, natural history, Native American artifacts
Heritage Mill, North Chailey Heritage Mill, side view.JPG Chailey LewesMillEarly 19th century windmill
Herstmonceux MuseumHerstmonceuxWealdenHistoryold electricity generating station, operated by the Lime Park Heritage Trust [1]
Hove Museum and Art Gallery Hove Brighton and HoveMultipleArt, 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 HastingsHastingsArtContemporary art gallery, collection of 20th and 21st century British art
Kent and East Sussex Railway Northiam Railway Station.jpg Northiam RotherRailwayHeritage railway, accessed at the Northiam railway station
Lamb House Lamb House, Rye - geograph.org.uk - 195617.jpg Rye RotherHistoric houseOperated by the National Trust, 18th-century house with literary connections including Henry James, E.F. Benson and Rumer Godden
Lavender Line Kitson-Austin1.JPG Isfield WealdenRailwayHeritage railway and exhibits including model railway at the Isfield railway station
Lewes Castle Lewes Castle shell keep 2.JPG Lewes LewesHistory11th century motte and bailey castle, includes Barbican House Museum with archaeology and medieval life displays, and the Town Model of Lewes
Mechanical Memories Museum BrightonBrighton and HoveAmusement website, working vintage penny slot machines
Michelham Priory Michelham Priory 03.jpg Upper Dicker WealdenOpen 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 Virginia Woolf (2).jpg Rodmell LewesHistoric houseOperated by the National Trust, 18th century cottage home of author Virginia Woolf and husband Leonard Woolf, connections to the Bloomsbury group
Newhaven Fort Newhaven Fort North side buildings.jpg Newhaven LewesMilitaryNapoleonic-era fort and Martello tower with area military artefacts and memorabilia, exhibits on local military, World War I and World War II
Newhaven MuseumNewhavenLewesMultiple website, local history, maritime artifacts, operated by the Newhaven Historical Society
Nutley Windmill Nutley Windmill 2.JPG Nutley WealdenMillEarly 19th century windmill
Observatory Science Center Herstmonceux WealdenScience website, located at Herstmonceux Castle estate
Old Police Cells Museum BrightonBrighton and HoveLaw enforcementHistory of the Sussex Police, housed in the basement of Brighton Town Hall
Ovenden's Mill Polegate mill.jpg Polegate WealdenMillEarly 19th century windmill
Paradise Park, Newhaven NewhavenLewesNatural history website, includes Planet Earth Museum with dinosaurs, fossils, geology, gardens, planthouses
Pevensey Court House Museum The Old Courthouse Pevensey - geograph.org.uk - 1412742.jpg Pevensey WealdenLocal website, located in the former courthouse, includes prison cells, exercise yard and stocks, displays of local history
Preston Manor, Brighton Preston Manor, Front View - geograph.org.uk - 9421.jpg BrightonBrighton and HoveHistoric houseEarly 20th century period Edwardian manor
Redoubt Fortress & Military Museum Centurion Tank outside the Redoubt Fortress.jpg Eastbourne Eastbourne MilitaryNapoleonic-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 HoveBrighton and HoveLocal website, 1820s townhouse with focus on the architecture and social history of Brighton & Hove between the 1780s and 1840s
Royal Pavilion Brighton Royal Pavilion.jpg BrightonBrighton and HoveHistoric houseEarly 19th century former royal seaside retreat, built in Indo-Saracenic style with lavish decorations and chinoiserie furnishings
Rye Art Gallery Rye RotherArt website, information
Rye Castle Museum Ypres Tower.jpg RyeRotherMultipleIncludes the Ypres Tower of the medieval castle, and the East Street Site with local history exhibits
Rye Heritage Centre RyeRotherLocal website, local history using sound and light show, working collection of old pier amusement machines
Seaford Museum Martello Tower, Seaford, East Sussex (October 2001).jpg Seaford LewesLocalLocated in a Martello tower, local history, military, period stores and rooms, household items, model railway, maritime heritage
Shipwreck Museum HastingsHastingsMaritime website, artifacts from local shipwrecks, rocks and fossils, changes in the coast, coastal defense
Stanmer Rural Museum Stanmer Brighton and HoveAgriculture 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 mill.jpg Stone Cross WealdenMillLate 19th century windmill
Towner EastbourneEastbourneArtContemporary art museum and gallery
Volk's Electric Railway BrightonBrighton and HoveRailwayHeritage railway that runs along a length of the seafront of Brighton
West Blatchington Windmill West Blatchington Mill.jpg West Blatchington Brighton and HoveMillEarly 19th century windmill
Winchelsea Court Hall Museum The Court Hall, Winchelsea - geograph.org.uk - 2070500.jpg Winchelsea RotherLocalLocal history, maps, models, pictures, seals, local pottery and items of daily life
Windmill Hill Mill Windmill Hill Mill.jpg HerstmonceuxWealdenMillEarly 19th century windmill

Defunct museums

Bentley Wildflower and Motor Museum is no longer operating, despite there being a ‘brown sign’ on the main road [4]

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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.
  4. ↑ local resident observation

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