Amberley Museum is an open-air industrial heritage museum at Amberley, near Arundel in West Sussex, England. The museum is owned and operated by Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre, a not-for-profit company and registered charity,<ref>Template:EW charity</ref> and has the support of an active Friends organisation. The items in the Museums collection are held by The Amberley Museum Trust<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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The museum was founded in 1978 by the Southern Industrial History Centre Trust and has previously been known as the Amberley Working Museum, Amberley Chalk Pits Museum, and Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre. It is located within historic chalk quarries. Chalk was extracted and processed for lime on site for more than 100 years, and the museum still houses a number of its original lime kilns. In addition, holdings and exhibitions at the museum cover a diversity of industrial and local heritage collections, including narrow-gauge railways, local bus services, and a multitude of light and rural industrial subjects.
The museum is sited in a former chalkquarry<ref>Owned by the Pepper Family for 30 years Times 24/2/04 Obituary of Ginny Fiennes (née Pepper)</ref> where the chalk was converted into lime for use in mortar and cement,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and remaining on site are several kilns, including a De Witt set, and associated buildings including offices, bagging shed and locomotive shed.
Also to be seen is the quarry tunnel, which appeared as Mainstrike Mine in the James Bond film A View to a Kill.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Print Shop - The Museum has a print shop that houses printing machinery and artefacts, including a Columbian ‘Eagle’ flat-bed press (about 1856), engraved copper plates, Linotype machines used in newspaper production, and an Albion lever press amongst many others. Volunteers run the print shop and operate many of the machines to demonstrate for our visitors and to produce museum publications.
Machine Shop includes display of various machine tools and hand tools used for metalwork. Machine tools are still in use for maintenance of exhibits <ref>
Paviors Hall of Road Making, located in a 19th-century iron-framed industrial building relocated from Horsham
Display of road construction techniques from Roman to contemporary
Cycle Exhibition (in Paviours Hall of Road Making building)
Railway Hall displaying items including engines and wagons related to narrow-gauge industrial railways
'Billingshurst' Signal Box, A reconstructed signal box that was last used to control the level crossing at Billingshurst.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Contractors Monorail used to move materials on construction sites
Fire Station, reproduction of a typical 1950s building completed in 2008 and now housing several roadworthy historic fire engines and an impressive collection of displays and exhibits primarily relating to the history of fire-fighting in Sussex.
The collection completed by a reconstructed 1920s SouthdownBus garage. The depot houses working buses chiefly from the local operator Southdown Motor Services<ref>
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On open days the Southdown Bus collection operates bus rides throughout the day. The collection of vehicles is listed below.
Operational buses
1914 Worthing Motor Services/Southdown Tilling Stevens open-top 41-seater IB 552. (Restricted use because the bus is fragile)
1922 Southdown Leyland N Type open-top 51-seater CD 5125.
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