It’s Time for Blast Off!

We are delighted to reveal that Littlehampton Museum has been awarded a National Lottery ‘Unlocking Collections’ grant to fund a brand-new community project, putting YOU at the heart of the Museum Service.  

This exciting new phase in the Museum’s life, to be known as ‘Project Time Machine’, consists of two parts, read on for more details…

The project blasted off with a large public consultation asking YOU what you wanted from YOUR museum.

We wanted to hear the views of as many people as possible, both visitors and non-visitors, to learn how the Museum’s collections could be used to engage and represent the whole community.  The results are now in and can be found in full here.

Findings were reported to the Town Council's Community Resources Committee on the 2nd October, minutes of this meeting can be found here.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this exciting phase of the Museum’s development, your suggestions will feed into our future plans.

Tuesdays to Saturdays, October 2024 - June 2025

Our volunteers and staff will be working in the Hearne Gallery cataloguing and researching our social history collections. We aim to capture rich new context and establish links between objects, local people, places and events. 

We are hoping to unearth some currently ‘hidden’ histories, so keep an eye on our ‘Object of the Month’ case at the Museum Reception, and the object histories which we will post here and on social media. 

Feel free to come along and chat to our volunteers about their work! 

At the end of the project, there will be an ‘Unlocking Collections’ exhibition showcasing the highlights of the project.  

Volunteer recruitment for this phase of the project has now closed until January 2025. 

If you would like to go on the waiting list please contact us: 01903 738100 or museum@littlehampton-tc.gov.uk 

Volunteer Role Profile -Cataloguing

Volunteer Role Profile - Research

A HUGE thank you to everyone who participates in this important new project, we cant wait to see where the Time Machine takes us!