Worthing Museum and Art Gallery has one of the largest costume and textile collections in the UK.

The 20th century gallery concentrates on women's fashions including pictures of local residents through the ages.

This includes the John Pull Collection of neolithic flint mines, shown on the television series Time Team, the Patching hoard of gold coins, an Anglo-Saxon long boat, and the Highdown Goblet – an Ancient Egyptian glass vase with an Ancient Greek inscription, found at the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Highdown.

Sculpture is represented through works by John Skelton, Philip Jackson, Dora Gordine and Anthony Stevens who are all nationally recognised but have links to the region.

The Art Gallery regularly hosts visiting exhibitions such as Jon Edgar[4] in 2010 and Dora Gordine[5] in 2011, in association with Kingston University's Dorich House Museum.