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

Name Image Town/City Region Type Summary 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 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 local art, crafts and applied art Eastbourne Heritage Centre Eastbourne Eastbourne Local operated by the Eastbourne Society Eastbourne RNLI Museum Eastbourne Eastbourne Maritime history of area lifeboat rescuing, operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Fabrica Brighton Brighton and Hove Art 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 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 local history, operated by the Old Hastings Preservation Society Hastings Lifeboat Station Hastings Hastings Maritime 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 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 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 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 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 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 includes Planet Earth Museum with dinosaurs, fossils, geology, gardens, planthouses Pevensey Court House Museum Pevensey Wealden Local 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 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 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 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 artifacts from local shipwrecks, rocks and fossils, changes in the coast, coastal defense Stanmer Rural Museum Stanmer Brighton and Hove Agriculture 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 Musgrave Museum, Eastbourne, life of St. Paul Yesterday's World, Battle, closed in 2015 Bentley Wildflower and Motor Museum is no longer operating, despite there being a ‘brown sign’ on the main roadlocal resident observation

References

Sussex Museums Group Museums and Art Galleries - East Sussex County Council

See also Visitor attractions in East Sussex