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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Name
Image
Town/City
Region
Type
Summary
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 website , local history, natural history, fashion, dinosaurs, stone-age life, Ancient Egyptians, military, world cultures, British motor racing
Bluebell Railway Fletching Lewes Historic house Heritage railway with museum displays at the Sheffield Park railway station
Brede Waterworks Brede Rother Technology Former waterworks with working stationary steam engines
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Brighton Brighton and Hove Multiple Art, decorative arts, natural history, puppets, fashion, world culture artifacts, Egyptian artifacts, local history
British Engineerium Hove Brighton and Hove Technology Victorian pumping station with beam engines , (museum currently under renovation)
Eastbourne Redoubt Eastbourne Eastbourne Military Early 19th century fort, includes collections of The Royal Sussex Regiment , Queen's Royal Irish Hussars , vehicles , weapons, uniforms, medals
Hastings Lifeboat
Hastings Hastings Maritime website , visitor centre with film, viewing of the lifeboats
Heritage Mill, North Chailey Chailey Lewes Mill Early 19th century windmill
How We Lived Then
Eastbourne Eastbourne History information , information , authentic Victorian period shops, room settings, displays covering 100 years of shopping and social history
Lavender Line Isfield Wealden Railway Heritage railway and exhibits including model railway at the Isfield railway station
Mechanical Memories Museum
Brighton Brighton and Hove Amusement website , working vintage penny slot machines
Nutley Windmill Nutley Wealden Mill Early 19th century windmill
Ovenden's Mill Polegate Wealden Mill Early 19th century windmill
Stanmer Rural Museum
Stanmer Brighton and Hove Agriculture website , rural life artifacts, farm tools and equipment, wagons, reconstructed blacksmith's forge, household items
Stone Cross Windmill Stone Cross Wealden Mill Late 19th century windmill
West Blatchington Windmill West Blatchington Brighton and Hove Mill Early 19th century windmill
Windmill Hill Mill Herstmonceux Wealden Mill Early 19th century windmill
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