- Wikidata identifier:
- Q4741361
- Also known as:
- Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre, Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre
- Instance of:
- museum; charitable organization; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 109
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q4741361/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Science and Industry
Over 4000 industry-based items, such as the Print Workshop and Wheelwrights. The collection includes lime kilns and lime works buildings (many of which are Scheduled Ancient Monuments) and artefacts and documentary material relating to the industry. The major collections are chalk quarrying, limeburning, cement and concrete, industrial buildings, printing and graphic arts, radio, television and communications and the Milne electrical collection.
Transport
There is a good-sized transport-based collection. The major collections are narrow gauge railways, roadmaking and road vehicles and the Southdown Omnibus collection.
Archives
The Museum has a number of major collections for which the Museum also holds archival material, photographs, films and records of the industries. The Museum has a library with collections of books and documentary material relating to its collections. These include archive material on the chalk quarrying operations, the archive of the Southdown Bus Company, extensive documentary material relating to the radio and communications and journals. There is a separate library containing books and documentary material relating to the electrical collection.
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC