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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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Name	Town/City	Region	Type	Summary
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 Museum	Arundel	Arun	Local	Local and maritime history
Bognor Regis Museum	Bognor Regis	Arun	Multiple	website, 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	website, local history, culture
Chichester District Museum	Chichester	Chichester	Local	website, local history, geology, archaeology
Chichester Guildhall	Chichester	Chichester	Local	website, surviving part of a medieval friary, hosts exhibits of the Chichester District Museum
Clayton Windmills	Clayton	Mid Sussex	Mill	19th century post and tower windmills
Coultershaw Beam Pump	Pulborough	Horsham	Technology	website, 18th century waterwheel-driven three-throw beam pump
Crawley Museum Centre	Crawley	Crawley	Local	website, local history, culture, archaeology
Cuckfield Museum	Cuckfield	Mid Sussex	Local	website, local history, culture
East Grinstead Museum	East Grinstead	Mid Sussex	Local	website, local history, culture
Goodwood House	Goodwood	Chichester	Historic house	Jacobean country house with state rooms, art collection and home of the Goodwood Festival of Speed event
Henfield Museum	Henfield	Horsham	Local	website, 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	website, local and maritime history, art exhibits
Marlipins Museum	Shoreham-by-Sea	Adur	Local	Local and maritime history
Oldland Mill	Keymer	Mid Sussex	Mill	18th century post windmills
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
Shoreham Airport Visitor Centre	Shoreham-by-Sea	Adur	Aviation	Area aviation history and memorabilia, operates airport tours
Storrington Museum	Storrington	Horsham	Local	website, 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
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
Wings Museum	Balcombe	Mid Sussex	Aviation	website, history of RAF Redhill in World War II, aero engines, propellers, artefacts, uniforms, aircraft parts, equipment, local history, Home Front items