Museum at Shoreham Airfield, 1999/2001

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I got such amazing help here a couple of years ago figuring out an airfield I visited in 1986, I'm going to try my luck again, this time a wee bit more recent.

I did a couple of work trips to the UK in July 1999 and April 2001, both working out of Lancing, and staying nearby in Brighton. Between the two was the "sleepy" Shoreham Airfield which I would visit occasionally on my way back to the hotel in the evenings. During the 2001 trip, I found and visited a small museum which was among the hangars on the south side of the airfield (off Cecil Pashley Way). I think it was all in one small hangar and consisted mostly of small items including a lot of personal effects of airmen from WW2. There was also a 1:1 scale fibreglass replica of a Spitfire parked in a small grassed area on the airfield side of the hangar.

Does anyone remember this museum, the name of it, and what became of it? I see there is "The Shoreham Collection" there now but I don't know if that is related and I'm pretty sure it was not in the terminal building when I was there.

Edit: Oops! I don't think I can change the title. I wasn't sure when I started writing if it was 1999 or 2001 when I visited the museum but I dug out photos that pinned it to 2001. I would post one of the replica Spitfire but cannot as I do not yet have the requisite 10 posts.