04/20/2019

We are open all Easter weekend from 10am until 4.30pm, so why not come along and explore our 36 acre site and take a ride on our historic bus and narrow-gauge railway.  On Easter Sunday and Easter Monday we have Steam running on our railway, with our resident loco Polar Bear, and visiting loco Wendy.  Enjoy various activities around our Museum, and follow our Easter Trail to help you find your way around. With the beautiful weather this weekend, we have plenty of shade, and picnic areas around

04/20/2019

We are hosting our annual Spring Bus Show on Sunday 28th April.  Enjoy your first opportunity of the season to ride historic buses around the museum, with a wonderful display of our Museum buses and visiting exhibitors.  Exhibiting buses include: a 1939 Harrington bodied Leyland Cheetah, possibly the only pre-war one of its kind in existence.  Also, a 1944 Bedford Duple Replica, which is a wartime Bedford OWB, it was rescued for preservation.  But, the bodywork was in a poor condition and

04/10/2019

Come along during the Easter Holidays when we will be open Wednesday to Sunday, explore our Museum and follow our family STEaM trail around the 36 acres site.  On Sunday 7th April you can enjoy our annual Vintage Car Show, when over one hundred and fifty cars made before 1956 will be assembling at the Museum.  With the cars on show from 10 am until 4pm, when they will leave in an organised procession.  There will be a rare opportunity to view and hear luxury, sporting and the everyday cars

04/01/2019

Over one hundred and fifty cars made before 1956 will be assembling at the Amberley Museum on Sunday, April 7th, for the annual Vintage Car Show.  This event, often known by enthusiasts as the 'Cobweb Run', is one of the first gatherings of the year by the historic motoring fraternity so often features new restorations. On show from 10 am until 4pm there will be a rare opportunity to view and hear luxury, sporting and the everyday cars of a long past era of motoring when every journey was an

07/11/2018

2018 sees the 100th birthday of one of our favourite attractions “Peter”, the Bagnall steam engine that has been carrying visitors around the site since 1994. Peter was originally commissioned by the war office for forestry operations in Cumbria, then after several owners was purchased by the Cliffe Hill Quarry, Leicestershire in 1922, where it is believed that Peter was named after the owner’s son. In 1954 Peter was acquired by the Narrow Gauge Railway Society and eventually joined the

05/22/2018

Help us keep Amberley Museum special! This spring your donations will support our STEAM! fundraising campaign.  Our historic steam crane and Marshall steam roller ‘Joan’ need essential boiler repairs to get them back in to steaming action.  Just £2,000 will enable us to fund the specialist works required and once again demonstrate the exciting power of the steam crane and roller to our visitors.  Please donate and visit to experience these steam machines in all their dramatic working glory.