
Amberley Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Sussex, East & West Sussex
Closed — opens 10am
What’s there
- Café on site
- Dogs welcome
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Amberley Museum is an open-air industrial heritage museum set in a former chalk quarry in the South Downs near Arundel, West Sussex. Open Wednesday to Sunday (plus Bank Holidays), 10am to 4.30pm during the main season from mid-February to early November. Families can ride the narrow-gauge railway and vintage buses, explore the heritage railway displays, and watch working craft workshops and demonstrations of Sussex industry past and present. There is lots to explore both indoors and outdoors, plus a cafe and gift shop. Dogs are welcome, and children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
Main season 2026: 14th February 2026 - 1st November 2026.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Colouring book and pencils
- Waterproof jacket
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Gloves
- Painkillers for grown-ups
- Lunch boxes
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