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 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