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.
| Name | Image | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horsham | Open-air | 36acres site dedicated to industry, communications and transport, includes Amberley Museum Railway | |||
| Arun | Historic house | Restored medieval castle with paintings and furniture, tapestries and stained glass, china and clocks, sculpture and carving, heraldry and armour in room settings | |||
| Arun | Local | Local and maritime history | |||
| Chichester | Archaeology | Remains of a Roman home and farm with mosaic floors | |||
| 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 | |||
| Mid Sussex | Local | website, local history, culture | |||
| Chichester | Art | Outdoor sculpture park | |||
| Mid Sussex | Mill | 19th century post and tower windmills | |||
| Chichester | Technology | website, 18th century waterwheel-driven three-throw beam pump | |||
| Chichester | Historic house | Tours of the ruins of a 16th-century Tudor house partially destroyed by fire in 1793 | |||
| Crawley | Local | website, local history, culture, archaeology | |||
| Mid Sussex | Local | website, local history, culture | |||
| Mid Sussex | Local | website, local history, culture | |||
| Chichester | Archaeology | Excavated Roman palace with mosaic floor, reconstructed garden | |||
| Chichester | Historic house | Jacobean country house with state rooms, art collection | |||
| Mid Sussex | Historic house | 1972 country house designed by Benjamin Latrobe | |||
| Horsham | Local | website, local history, culture | |||
| Mill | 18th century post windmill | ||||
| Horsham | Multiple | Local history, culture, decorative arts, crafts, photography, reconstructed blacksmith and wheelwright's shops, Percy Bysshe Shelley, costumes, toys | |||
| Crawley | Mill | 19th century weaterboarded watermill | |||
| Local | website, local and maritime history, art exhibits | ||||
| Adur | Local | Local and maritime history | |||
| Handcross | Mid Sussex | Historic house | website, Late 19th century Gothic-style house destroyed by fire in 1947. | ||
| Mid Sussex | Historic house | website, 15th century moated house open by guided tour appointment | |||
| Chichester | Local | Local history, geology, archaeology | |||
| Mid Sussex | Mill | 18th century post windmills | |||
| Chichester | Art | website, contemporary art gallery of the University of Chichester | |||
| Chichester | Art | website | |||
| Chichester | Art | Collection focus is modern British art | |||
| Horsham | Historic house | Elizabethan house and gardens | |||
| Chichester | Historic house | Restored 1910 period worker's cottage for a seamstress at Petworth House | |||
| 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 | |||
| Mid Sussex | Historic house | website, early 15th century timber-framed hall-house with furnished rooms displaying 17th & 18th century country furniture, ironwork, embroidery and domestic artifacts | |||
| Mid Sussex | Historic site | Jacobean almshouse with chapel and great hall, open for tours | |||
| Mid Sussex | Historic house | Head office for the Church of Scientology in the United Kingdom, 18th century house reflecting its different owners | |||
| Adur | Aviation | Area aviation history and memorabilia, operates airport tours | |||
| Horsham | Historic house | website, late 15th century timber-framed house on a site associated with the Knights Templar | |||
| Mid Sussex | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, late 19th century Arts and Crafts house and gardens | |||
| Chichester | Historic house | Edwardian country house and park | |||
| Horsham | Local | website, local history, culture | |||
| Horsham | Local | website, local history, culture | |||
| Chichester | Aviation | History of the former RAF Tangmere airfield, historic military aircraft, activities during the Battle of Britain | |||
| Chichester | Horology | website, science and technology of clocks, time and measurement | |||
| Chichester | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, restored 18th century Georgian house with period paintings, furniture and ceramics, Victorian servant's quarters, garden | |||
| Chichester | Open-air | Features nearly 50 historic buildings dating from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries, along with gardens, farm animals, walks and a lake | |||
| Chichester | Art | Exhibits of fine art, craft, weavings | |||
| 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 | |||
| Multiple | Local history, art, costumes, textiles, toys and dolls, archaeology, fine and decorative arts, coins | ||||