Weald & Downland Living Museum, Chichester
About
Contact Details
- Location
- Weald & Downland Living Museum, Town Ln, Chichester PO18 0EU
- Telephone
- 01243 811363
- office@wealddown.co.uk
- URL
- View website
- Facebook URL
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Ages
For all ages
Opening Times
- All days
- March - 23rd December please see website for full details:
Cafés
WATERSIDE DINING AT THE MUSEUM’S STUNNING CAFÉ
Enjoy waterside dining at the Museum’s stunning café, with fantastic views across the mill pond. Open to both Museum visitors and to the general public, our café is dog friendly and has free parking.
We favour the use of our stone-ground flour, milled at our 17th century watermill, where possible. Our ethos and aim is to work in collaboration with local producers and suppliers to provide top quality and fresh produce to serve to our customers.
We guarantee that the food we serve you is of the very best quality and we produce a range of high-quality products that you can take away with you, including stone-ground flour and biscuits (available from our gift shop).
MENU
We offer a changing menu with a selection of daily specials. Gluten free, vegetarian or vegan? Please talk to our team about your dietary needs and any allergies or in tolerances – we are happy to help with alternative meal choices where possible.
Please note that the café stops serving hot meals at 3pm daily – snacks, drinks and ice creams are available from the counter until closing.
CAFÉ OPENING TIMES
Open 7 days a week from 10am–5pm during BST and 10am–4pm at other times (Museum opens at 10.30am). Please note that these are our normal café hours but are subject to change during COVID-19 times. See our FAQs page for up to date information.
Hot and cold food, cakes, drinks, ice creams and items from our counter are available all day. Seating is also available on our outdoor decking area.
The café is dog friendly, with pets accepted in the first section of the interior space and on the deck outside.
Free wifi is available to our café customers.
Theatres
What better way to enjoy your summer evening with friends and family! Our summer programme of theatre runs from June–September each year, and we are glad to share our 2021 line-up with you.
Relax and unwind in the hazy evening light and enjoy a variety of summer theatre. We look forward to welcoming you to the Weald & Downland Living Museum, to watch live theatre set against the backdrop of our beautiful open air site.
Easter
Easter Holiday Activities
Sat–Sun 9–24 April 2022
When the clocks spring forward it marks the start of longer days, warmer weather and exciting outdoor adventures! So why not enjoy all that the Museum has to offer during the Easter Holidays? Come and explore the Museum with family and friends – whether you are 5 or 95 – there is something for everyone.
Easter Holiday Activities
Come and try craft activities and play traditional games. See our heavy horses, Southdown lambs and sheep, and other traditional working farm animals.
Details on the Easter activities will be announced nearer the time.
Playgrounds
Explore the woodland playground and find Knucker the water dragon at the Weald and Downland Living Museum.
Farms
See traditional breed farm animals – spot our Shire and Percheron horses, Southdown sheep, Saddleback pigs, plus chickens and geese
Special
In addition to our fantastic range of day-to-day activities, families can also enjoy special events at the Museum:
Half term family activities
Easter activities
Open air theatre performances
Wonderful Wednesdays (August)
Historic Life Weekends with demonstrations and activities
Meet Green Father Christmas
Christmas at the Museum
Woodlands
Sculpture Trail
The sculpture trail winds its way through the top section of the Museum’s 40-acre woodland site, just above the woodyard, and allows visitors to experience an enchanting walk, discovering various iron tree markers along the way. The iron tree markers were made by the British Artist Blacksmith Association and form an interesting ‘henge’ that helps visitors identify different types of trees in the weald and downland region.
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We ALWAYS enjoy a trip here! Great place to take even small kids, as it's one museum they can run around! Also, good for taking any age visitors to (grandparents, other families, relatives from overseas - they will all have a wonderful time together). Go during school holidays for a range of hands-on activities (I think they charge a little for these). The kids won't even know they're learning about the 'olden days'! I first visited this place when I was about 7 yrs old (now a mum of 2) and I still remember the toilet in the farmhouse!!