How We Lived Then Museum of Shops

How We Lived Then Museum of Shops is located in Eastbourne is in a late Regency town house, built in 1850, where you will see 100 years of shopping and social history, uniquely captured in many old shops, rooms and displays.

Stroll through the Victorian-styled streets to the sounds of horses and carriages, wonder at the Chemist with his many 'cure-all' preparations and remember how sweets were weighed from jars as you look into the grocers.

Visitors returning time and time again say this is one of the most comprehensive collections of its kind in the country. Certainly it's one of the oldest established, having been amassed during the past forty years, the museum now has well over 100,000 exhibits.