This summer, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft is reimagining what a museum can be.
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft invites visitors behind the scenes with a new exhibition that re-examines its extraordinary collection of over 20,000 arts and craft objects from fresh perspectives. Marking 40 years since the museum’s inception, this living curatorial experiment will shape the museum’s major redisplay planned for 2028.
The museum is collaborating with over 50 contributors to bring together rarely seen discoveries from the collection alongside familiar works, presented in new ways. Featuring pieces by renowned artists and craftspeople - including Ethel Mairet, Eric Gill, Joseph Cribb, David Jones and Amy Sawyer - It Takes a Village offers new ways of looking at these objects and the connections between them. Visitors will also be invited into the process, contributing their own local items into the museum’s Wunderkammer, with each object's origin marked on a map of Ditchling designed by illustrator Neil Gower - building a unique, community-sourced collection.
Adult £10 with Gift Aid (£9 without)
Concessions – Disabled people, benefit recipients £8.50 with Gift Aid (£7.50 without)
Young people (5 – 25 year olds) £6 with Gift Aid (£5 without)
National Art Pass, Friends of Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, carers and under 5s– Free
| Season (5 July 2025 - 1 Feb 2026) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Day | Times | |
| Monday - Tuesday | Closed | |
| Wednesday - Sunday | 10:30 | - 17:00 |
| Bank Holiday | 10:30 | - 17:00 |
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