Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre
Amberley Museum is an open-air industrial heritage museum at Amberley, near Arundel in West Sussex, England. The museum is owned and operated by Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre, a not-for-profit company and registered charity, and has the support of an active Friends organisation. The items in the Museums collection are held by The Amberley Museum Trust
Recreating the 1930s at Amberley | |
Location within West Sussex | |
Former name | Amberley Working Museum, Amberley Chalk Pits Museum, Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre |
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| Established | 1979 |
| Location | Amberley, West Sussex, England |
| Coordinates | 50°53′53″N 0°32′22″W |
| Type | Industrial heritage |
| Accreditation | Association of Independent Museums, Museum Accreditation |
| Visitors | 60,000 per year |
| Public transit access | Amberley |
| Nearest car park | Amberley Museum Car Park |
| Website | www |
The museum was founded in 1978 by the Southern Industrial History Centre Trust and has previously been known as the Amberley Working Museum, Amberley Chalk Pits Museum, and Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre. It is located within historic chalk quarries. Chalk was extracted and processed for lime on site for more than 100 years, and the museum still houses a number of its original lime kilns. In addition, holdings and exhibitions at the museum cover a diversity of industrial and local heritage collections, including narrow gauge railways, local bus services, and a multitude of light and rural industrial subjects.