Museum News

This month's posts introduces our Working Animals Supervisor, Andy Robinson. I always wanted to work with horses but I didn’t get a chance to follow this passion until I got…

We hope you are enjoying our monthly posts focusing on the people behind the Museum. This month, Steve Scott, Trades & Crafts Interpreter; talks us through his role at the…

We hope you are enjoying our monthly posts focusing on the people behind the Museum. This month, Carlotta Holt, Museum Gardener; explains how the Museum's six historic gardens are designed…

In May, the latest update of the ‘Red list’ of Heritage Crafts at risk was published by the Heritage Crafts Association (HCA). The list has different categories, from extinct in…

After being fashionable and popular in the 14th and early 15th centuries, salads went through a stage of being considered as “food more meet for hogs and savage beasts to…

We hope you enjoy our monthly posts focusing on the people behind the Museum. This month, Julian Bell, Museum Curator; explains the Museum's role in keeping our rural past alive.…

Roger Champion 1937-2021 A hole has been left at the heart of the Museum. It is with great sadness that we share the news with our community of the passing…

Spring is such a hopeful and beautiful time of year and the Museum Historic Gardens are bursting with flora and fauna. Warden pears, a 13th century variety, are just coming…

Did you know? Flax was traditionally grown in this area (weald & downland) to produce linen cloth. At the Weald & Downland Living Musuem we grow our own flax in…

Have you ever opened your wardrobe to find your favourite winter jumper has been attacked by clothes moths and is ruined? This sort of problem isn’t just confined to the…

Down in the bowels of the Gridshell Building, we’ve got an amazing rural, trade and buildings related artefact collection, with objects made from a mixture of different materials - from…

We’ve got some wonderful building exhibits in our collection but did you know that we also have a collection of around 15,000 rural, trade and building artefacts which have been…