Horsham Museum (Horsham)

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Founded in 1893 by the Free Christian Church, Horsham Museum Society held quarterly meetings during which members would exhibit interesting and unusual items. The collection grew so large that by 1928 the Museum Society wanted a permanent home. It was given the basement of Park House on North Street (which had just been acquired as council offices) to use as a venue for displays. In 1941 the Museum moved to its current location in the historic Causeway House, parts of which date back to the 1420s.

It is now owned by Horsham District Council and contains a range of displays on ethnography, geology, palaeontology, archaeology, clothing, paintings, local trades, notaries (including P.B. Shelley), photography, farming and transport among others and maintains a small archive on the premises of locally important documents.


www.horshammuseum.org/