Littlehampton Museum

Littlehampton Museum is in the heart of the town centre and offers a fascinating insight into the community’s social history through a variety of exciting galleries, many with audio points and interactive elements to help guide you through the history of the town. Admission and helpful advice is all FREE so come along and enjoy a visit to your local family museum.

Additional info

ACCESS: ramped entrance - all displays on ground floor.

The collection includes a wealth of archaeological material from the surrounding area including Angmering Roman Villa, the Climping coin hoard and features Bronze and Iron Age exhibits. We also have an impressive fine art collection featuring work by A. Plant, Leslie Wilcox, Maurice Randall and Henry Nibbs. Our focus on the social history of the town is reflected in the galleries where you can use interactives to explore our collections on display.

Visitors may view any of our stored collections by prior arrangement with the Curator, please contact at 01903 738100 or museum@littlehampton-tc.gov.uk.

Collection details

Archaeology, Archives, Coins and Medals, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Inland Waterways, Land Transport, Maritime, Photography, Social History, Toys and Hobbies, Weapons and War

Key artists and exhibits

• The Fletcher Collection: over 200 miniature ship models
• The 'Everyman Cruiser'
• Harry Burtenshaw's fishing gear
• Victorian nightdress
• Bottles from the Anchor Springs Brewery
• Mr Jannaway's bowler hat
• Creticus' Roman gaming counter
• Prints left by Roman animals
• 3000 year old earrings from Binstead
• Souvenir moustache cup
• Paleolithic Flints
• Bronze Age mace head
• Saxon tombstone
• Angmering Roman Villa finds
• Fine art