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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We've just discovered that #RodentoftheDay is a thing and are very excited. This is one of our Rodents. His name is Boracchio.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#FindsFriday is usually about inanimate objects, so we thought we'd make a change. This is a swarm of bees that was found on site earlier this year. They were being very busy...

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Perhaps they should have included the Batman disguise.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We're hoping that #FindsFriday includes display items that we hadn't noticed before. We really like this Cat Clock in the Electricity Hall, which dates to c.1950. The tail swings as it ticks!

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#AdoorableThursday We have several living vans dotted around, as they were attached to the Road Steam engines when they were in use. They all seem to have stable doors, like this example which lives next to the Telephone Exchange building.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If anyone has any spare for Halloween? We have a rather nice coffin and just need some contents.

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You will laugh out loud! Super cute puppy antics!! 💕🐶🐾

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today is Wife Appreciation Day. We felt some people might like to know that. 😁

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Miniature steam engines have personalities all of their own.

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Sussex Heritage Community @heritagecommunity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Although not here in Sussex, this mindless damage and abuse of our history is something we all need to look out for. With around 95% of Sussex shared heritage being undesignated, protected, listed or scheduled our heritage is at great risk. #HeritageCrime www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Bronze Age burial mound in Somerset suffers 'significant damage'

The 4,000-year-old cairn on the Quantock Hills has had its stones removed and piled around it.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Amberley is always unexpected. We found our Plumbers making 3 models of Michelangelo's David. Obviously.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We thought this was a good picture for International Cloud Appreciation Day. We took this years ago and have never seen anything quite like it since!

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For many years, Amberley Museum was patrolled (pawtrolled) by cats. They were very useful, as rodents are not a good mix with electrical wire and cabling and we have an awful lot of that. And rodents. These are the memorials to the (in)famous Chalk and Pepper, with Nelson in the background.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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?

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#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!

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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.

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💥Richard with an💥R @rbwaltonthereal.com · 21/08/2026

The Earth is made up of 70% water, and it’s uncarbonated... So, technically it's flat.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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!

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's #WorldLizardDay! These are Common Lizards visiting Amberley, which is marvellous. We don't do Posh Lizards.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You've got to love a mean 'n' moody tractor! There'll be lots here on 5/6 September, chugging around and Looking Useful.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Retro Wheels always brings out the unexpected! Wooden bicycle, anyone? Sinclair C5? Circus bike?

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Please read..... #BookSky

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Museums and galleries have a similar effect.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Tell me that you work at an industrial museum without telling me that you work at an industrial museum... Sound up!

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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!

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Look! Look! The ground is wet! It's been raining! 😱💦🎉🌧️ We're not overreacting, are we?

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Another of our 'completely irrelevant but has to be seen' posts.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

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!

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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. 😘

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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...

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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...

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Nothing directly to do with Amberley Museum but something else that illustrates the growing disregard and disrespect of archaeology.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Thought you'd like to see this. It's a mould for making musket balls out of lead. Dates from about the 1850s!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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.

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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.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The damage being done is unbelievable. Stating the obvious - or what should be obvious - but after a bit you run out of words and expletives.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is Nicola Tesla. Today is his 180th birthday. He was a true genius who researched AC current and its uses, amongst other things, and made the modern world possible. Without him, we would be a bit short of exhibits.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Today is World Chocolate Day as it's the anniversary of when chocolate was introduced to Europe. Fortunately, it's also Global Forgiveness Day, so you don't have to feel guilty about how much you eat.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We all know that buildings have birthdays. This is the rather gorgeous Billingshurst Signal Box, which celebrates its 150th birthday this year. Even to the extent that a special beer has been brewed and will be available for tasting at our Rail Gala on 18 & 19 July! #signalbox #celebration

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Far off in the distance is Bury Hill. On 24th August 2012, a passing van driver claimed to have seen a UFO here, described as a ball of intense white light. As it's #worldUFODay we thought you'd like to know about it.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Today is Industrial Workers of the World Day, which is gloriously appropriate for us. We feel Karl Marx would have approved.

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