Emsworth Museum holds over 10,000 items and the details of many of these items can be searched for on this site. More than 2000 photographs can be viewed of which more than 1100 are high resolution scans of our photograph collection. There are also many audio recordings and videos in our collection.
You can access many of our exhibitions on-line. Use the search box at the top to find something specific. Find instructions on how to use the search box here.
Featured Item
Postcard, monochrome.
Depicting the front of E.A. Stevens Greengrocer and General Stores of North Street, Emsworth showing two ladies in the entrance one of whom is Mrs Ada…
Featured Collection
Research Archive
Collection of Texts mostly held in the Archive
Room including People Archive, Streets and Trade Directories
Featured Exhibit
Archaeology on the Coastal Plain
This exhibition, curated by Ann Davies, showcased some of the work undertaken in recent years by Chichester & District Archaeology...
Recently Added Items
Photograph of North Street cottages, site of Emsworth Poor House/Workhouse.
Monochrome, 10 cm x 7.5 cm. Shows Arthur Tier, Builder & Decorator next door, c.1950
Prayer Book.
PRAYERS for the Poor to use in Private. Eighth edition. 13 cm height, 6.5 cm width. In poor condition. Ten pages loosely and crudely stitched…
Emsworth Sailing School
History of the Emsworth Sailing School from its inception by Crab Searl in 1958 to 1988
Jeeves: Man and Myth
Percy Jeeves was a professional cricketer whom Wodehouse saw play in 1913 and he then immortalised the name in his Jeeves and Wooster stories.
Wodehouse and Cricket
Wodehouse's love of cricket found an outlet both as a player and a writer of cricket-themed stories
Our Neighbour Downstairs
Work of the Emsworth fire station team located on the ground floor of the Museum building
Restoration of the River Ems Valley
Work in partnership with the local community by the Arun & Rother Rivers Trust trading as Western Sussex Rivers Trust. This is a 10-year restoration…