East Grinstead Museum

East Grinstead Museum is located at Cantelupe Road in East Grinstead, West Sussex, England.

East-Grinstead Sussex Turnpike ticket 1754 from the museum's collection.

It was established in 1995 in a purpose-built museum constructed with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and local donations. It replaced the town's first museum opened in 1926 in the St Swithun's Church tower under the supervision of the reverend Golding Golding-Bird.

Notable collections include material relating to the Guinea Pig Club for former plastic surgery patients of the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead during the Second World War, and the associated medical drawings of Mollie Lentaigne.[1][2]

References
  1. "Discover the Mollie Lentaigne Collection". East Grinstead Museum. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  2. "Exclusive: The woman who drew the Guinea Pig Club". ITV News. 14 November 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2018.


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