Collections, Library and Archives

Newhaven Fort has thousands of individual objects on display and in store ranging from weapons, uniforms and trench art through to documents, photographs and maps. The Fort library and archive holds an extensive range of books and other documents such as the Fort census returns up to 1901.

Examples of our collection items can be found on the external museum collections website eHive.  

Newhaven Fort on e-hive
Catalogue of Newhaven Fort's collections

Access Terms and Conditions

Newhaven Fort is happy to help with any enquiry regarding the Fort or its collections; these may be of a historical, family research or technical nature. Every effort will be made to reply as promptly and as fully as possible according to the nature of the enquiry and staff availability.

Conditions of access to collections may apply in certain instances, further details can be found on the conditions of access PDF below.
 Access Terms and Conditions  (15.14kb, Access_terms_and_conditions.pdf)