Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre is a museum at Amberley, near Arundel in West Sussex, England.
The museum was founded in 1979 by the Southern Industrial History Centre Trust and has previously been known as the Amberley Working Museum, Amberley Chalk Pits Museum or plain Amberley Museum.
The museum is a registered charity and has the support of an active Friends organisation.
Read more about Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre: Location, Exhibits and Collections, Southdown Bus Collection
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