Kent Museums

Canterbury Roman Museum

Step below today’s Canterbury to discover an exciting part of the Roman town induding the real remains of a house with fine mosaics.Experience everyday life in the reconstructed market piace and see exquisite silver and glass. Try your skill on the touch-screen computer, and in the hands-on area with actual finds. Use the computer animation of Roman Canterbury to join the search for the lost temple.

Longmarket, Butchery Lane,  Canterbury  CT1 2RA  Tel: 01277 785575   Email

Deal Maritime & Local History Museum

Deal’s history, people, real and model booas, figureheads, compasses, two very rare barge boards, relics of the pilots, the lifeboats etc. Records of families and homes.

22 St. George’s Rood, Deal CT14 6BA   Tel: 01304 381344  Email

Dover Museum and Bronze Age Boat Gallery

The district’s largest and most varied museum, has a range of fascinating real objects, models and original pictures showing the history of Dover. Included in the admission charge is entry to the award winning Bronze Age Boot Gallery with interactive exhibits, computers and microscopes. Changing exhibitions and regular family days

Market Square, Dover  CT16 1PB Tel:: 01304 201066   Email

Dover Transport Museum

Road vehicles of all types from bicycles to buses. Model Railway and tramway. local transport history. Hundreds of models. Kent Coalfield items. Maritime Room. Bygone shops and 1930’s garage. See exhibits being worked on.

White Cliffs Business Park, Whitfield CT16 2HQ Tel: 01304 204612   Email

Finchcocks – Living Museum of Music
 
The eighteenth century manor of Finchcocks is home to a celebrated collection of historical keyboard instruments, and set in a beautiful garden surrounded by glorious Kentish countryside. Entertaining musical tours whenever the house is open.

Goudhurst TN17 1HH Tel: 01580 211702   Email

Kent Battle of Britain Museum
 
The country’s largest collection of 1940 related items on public display. Includes the most important display of British and German 1940 flying equipment. Artifacts recovered from over 600 shot dawn aircraft from both sides. Also weapons and vehicles, home front etc.

Aerodrome Road, Hawkinge Airfield  Folkestone CT18 7AG Tel: 01303 893140   Email

Museum of Kent Life
 
Kent’s award-winning open air museum is home to an outstanding collection of historic buildings which house interactive exhibitions on life in Kent’s countryside over the past 150 years. These include traditional oast, granary, hopper’s huts farmhouse, village hall & 2 cottages. Also enjoy hop, herb and kitchen gardens, livestock centre, venture playground and riverboat service

Cobtree, Lock Lane, Sandling   Maidstone  ME14 3AU Tel:  01622 763936 Email

The Guildhall Museum

Exhibits at this well designed Museum are laid out chronologically, visitors step through Prehistoric and Roman times to the 16th century then on to Victorian and Edwardian times. The emphasis is very much ’hands-on’, with brass-rubbing, and coin minting. There are also some educational audio visual displays making the Museum enthralling for children.

High Street Rochester    ME1 1PY  Tel: 01634 333111   Email

Royal Engineers Museum
 
This prize-winning Museum covers the world-wide work of the Royal Engineers, in peace and war, from 1066 to the present day. learn about the first military divers, photographers, surveyors and aviators. See 25 Victoria Crosses, unique gallantry awards from the Falklands War, regalia of 4 Field Marshals, relics of Gordon and Kitchener, a Harrier jump jet and Wellington’s battlemap of Waterloo

Prince Arthur Road, Gillingham  ME4 4UG  Tel: 01634 406397   Email

The St Margaret’s Museum

Opposite the Pines Garden, the Museum houses a fascinating collection of exhibits on maritime and local history, the Channel, Noel Coward’s Exhibition. Video of St Margaret’s.

Beach Road, St Margaret’s Bay, Near Dover CT15 6DZ  Tel: 01304 852764  Email

Sandwich Guildhall Museum

The museum tells the story of Sandwich from early medieval times. There are many well designed illustrative panels relating to the Town’s history with artifacts dating back to the 13th century

Cattle Market, Sandwich, CT13 9AH  Tel: 01304 617197   Email

Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery
 
From Tunbridge ware caskets to Victorian oil paintings and archaeology, and Minnie the lulu terrier  to historic fashions . and dolls, there .are displays to fascinate everyone at Tunbridge Wells Museum. The Museum and Art Gallery also have a changing programme of exhibitions and events for all ages.

Civic Centre, Mount Pleasant  Tunbridge Wells TN1 1JN  Tel: 01892 554171  Email

White Mill Folk Museum

Smock mill built c. 1760. Restored with original machinery. Cottage restored and some rooms furnished in pre - 1939 style. Agricultural displays in mill base and granary. Forge, wheelwrights shop and corn grinding engine.

Ash Road, Sandwich CT13 9JB  Tel: 01304 612076   Email

The Women’s Land Army Museum

The Museum provides a fascinating insight into the life for women serving their country during the second world war, The exhibition consists of personal letters from ex-WLA, girls, authentic uniforms and factual information.

Little Farthinglae Farm, Folkestone Road, Dover  Tel: 01304212040