Horsham Museum & Art Gallery

This is a lovely small town museum, with exhibits covering a whole range of issues, from the history and development of the town to famous inhabitants, aspects from daily life, and reproductions of things like old shops, a saddlers, a smithy, the old prison, and the like.
The curiosity cabinet will delight children with its skull and mummified cat, but there are ceramics, fossils, clothes, an eclectic collection of 19^th Century objects from the Orient. A fact I learned was that Horsham was one of two last places to have hanged someone for ‘homosexual acts’ in the early 19^th century, and also one of the last to press someone to death: essentially they put a door on them, and put weights on top to crush the offender to death, a process that could take days (they even fed them for the first few days).
Worth a good half hour of ayone’s time. Free entry. The building has the town’s tourist information office as well.

This is a great museum! I’ve been going here for years, and always enjoy taking visitors around, my favourite exhibit is the mummified cat. Not very large, but plenty packed in, and always had changing exhibitions. I went a month or so back and there was a great one on witchcraft.