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Museum Director Clare de Bathe Interviewed on Investment, Visitors and the Future

Our Museum Director, Clare de Bathe, was recently interviewed by Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers, to talk…

3 weeks ago

Meet the Makers: The Art of Colour and Decoration

Historic craftsmanship is not only about how things were built. It is also about how people made their surroundings beautiful.…

4 weeks ago

Meet the Makers: The Crafts That Built the Past

Historic buildings are more than timber frames, old walls and impressive architecture. Look closely and they reveal the work of…

4 weeks ago

Meet the Makers: Crafting from the Landscape

For centuries, craftspeople have looked to the landscape around them for the materials they need. Wood, willow and stone might…

4 weeks ago

A Gift That Will Inspire Generations

A family's lifelong connection with the Weald & Downland Living Museum, Chichester, has inspired a new interactive play experience for…

3 months ago

Creating a More Accessible Weald & Downland Living Museum for Everyone

At the Weald & Downland Living Museum, we believe history should be accessible to everyone. For more than fifty years,…

3 months ago

The Longest Day: Midsummer, Myth, and the Living Land

There is a moment in the year when the world seems to pause. The sun climbs higher than it will…

4 months ago

Meet Becky White: Volunteers’ Week 2026

Becky White's connection to Weald & Downland Living Museum is not a simple story. It has roots that go back…

5 months ago

Meet Les Marshall: Volunteers’ Week 2026

Les first came to the museum as a visitor, drawn by a straightforward love of history and the kind of…

5 months ago

Meet Martin Downey: Volunteers’ Week 2026

Some relationships with a place develop slowly, deepening over time until they become something central to a person's life. Martin…

5 months ago

Meet Julie Peachy: Volunteers’ Week 2026

Julie Peachy came to Weald & Downland Living Museum at the start of 2019, at a point in her life…

5 months ago

Meet David Reeve: Volunteers’ Week 2026

There's a particular kind of person who becomes a volunteer at Weald & Downland Living Museum. They tend to be…

5 months ago

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