Welcome to Crawley Museum Society
Registered Charity No: 1032213
Crawley Museum Society (CMS) manages two museums for the town of Crawley, West Sussex :-
Crawley Museum Centre in Goffs Park & The Watermill off Hyde Drive in Ifield.
Crawley Museum Centre is the town’s repository for artefacts and archives. Based in a park setting, in an annexe to Goffs Park House in Southgate, Crawley, this local history Museum has collections that illustrate Crawley's history - from the Stone Age to the New Town. It has permanent exhibitions and a rolling programme of temporary exhibitions. It is also the start of a continual learning process for families and children. They bring with them a desire for quality information about local history. The Museum provides a comprehensive overview of the area's past. Crawley Museum can show not copies but ‘real’ objects. We have a collection of thousands of artefacts, ranging from flint tools and arrowheads, Iron-age pottery, Romano-British ware through to Victorian mementoes. Our archival material is continually growing.
Goffs Park House is owned by Crawley Borough Council and the Museum section is leased to Crawley Museum Society.
This house was built by the Horsham banker Edwin Henty in 1882.
The Museum is run and staffed by a team of volunteers and although open on only two afternoons per week, it can be opened for groups of visitors at other times which are mutually convenient. Staff also go out to organisations, groups and schools by arrangement.
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