Amberley Museum
@amberleymuseum.bsky.social
Travel back in time and explore the South’s working past in the heart of the South Downs National Park.
We posted this earlier - 'I saw a meme today that said that books are proof that strangers can meet across centuries and still understand each other.' This applies to many items in museums. How many objects have you seen where you can recognise how people from another time/civilisation used it?
I saw a meme today that said that books are proof that strangers can meet across centuries and still understand each other. That really resonated.
#Adoorablethursday The doors to the Arundel Gin Building that houses our Plumbers' Workshop. Nothing to do with gin, we're afraid, but housed a horse-powered engine!
We are always struck by how much of early engineering is to deal with sewage. This is a 1929 pump from Littlehampton for precisely that purpose.
The Earth is made up of 70% water, and it’s uncarbonated... So, technically it's flat.
Joining in with @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social fabulous #worldfashionday pictures, we can't match their truly iconic collection but thought this bus conductor's overcoat might be appropriate. Made from genuine gabardine!
This is the door to the Bagmender's Shed, which is now our Cobblers' Shop display. For #AdoorableThursday we always love the brickwork arches that you see above doors of this type.
It's National Radio Day! We have some very cool old radios to admire, many of which still work. Built to last with style and using genuinely beautiful design and materials, they outlast most of our modern devices! Oh, and we have Mike Read on site, broadcasting the Heritage Chart live from our cafe.
It's #WorldLizardDay! These are Common Lizards visiting Amberley, which is marvellous. We don't do Posh Lizards.
You've got to love a mean 'n' moody tractor! There'll be lots here on 5/6 September, chugging around and Looking Useful.
Retro Wheels always brings out the unexpected! Wooden bicycle, anyone? Sinclair C5? Circus bike?
We took an almost arty photo! We can never get enough of our own in-house roof tiles. These were made by the company that used to own the site when we were a Proper Business, called Pepper & Sons. The tiles are made of concrete and interlock apart from the ones in the middle which are made of glass.
Museums and galleries have a similar effect.
Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · last mo.Yes, they do. #BookSky
Tell me that you work at an industrial museum without telling me that you work at an industrial museum... Sound up!
Some of you may remember Sir Clive Sinclair, who invented both the ZX81 computer and the C5 tricycle. Today would have been his 86th birthday, had he not died in 2021. We will have our C5 out and running about this weekend for our Retro Wheels days!
Look! Look! The ground is wet! It's been raining! 😱💦🎉🌧️ We're not overreacting, are we?
Another of our 'completely irrelevant but has to be seen' posts.
Alan Baxter@alanbaxter.bsky.social · last mo.You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
Apparently, it's International Red Shoes Day, which is all about invisible diseases and illnesses. We therefore have to ask if sandals count? Like many museums, we welcome visitors, staff and volunteers with a variety of conditions, all of whom are valued!
Today is National Rat Catchers' Day. Anyone who knows us will realise that we have a bit of an issue with this, as these rodents have been our constant companions (on purpose) for many years. Fortunately, it's actually about the Pied Piper of Hamelin which as ex-teachers, we think is marvellous. 😘
This links with previous posts we have shared about the threat to history and the arts in education. The popularity of reenactment and living history is helping but we need the research behind it in both the field and archives. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...
Advocating for History by Doing History - On History
This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...
blog.history.ac.uk
Nothing directly to do with Amberley Museum but something else that illustrates the growing disregard and disrespect of archaeology.
Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 2mo agoPlease blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
Thought you'd like to see this. It's a mould for making musket balls out of lead. Dates from about the 1850s!
Of interest to UK university #Skystorians: Royal Historical Society open online meeting on 'The crisis in UK higher education: The future for History'. 4 August 2-4 pm.
The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History
An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.
eventbrite.co.uk
We met this shrew asleep in the middle of the path and 'persuaded' her to move to the undergrowth at the side. She was not happy.
