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Dover Museum and Bronze Age Boat Gallery is one of the oldest museums in Kent, founded in 1836. Free Entry.

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For #worldpizzaday we’re highlighting the #Dover Harbour models in the museum’s galleries, affectionately named the #pizza slices. And what better choice of topographies than Dover Harbour. Each model gives a different slice of the Harbour’s history mapping the developments over the centuries.
A colour photograph of three of the different topographical models of Dover Harbour. The models are divided into three separate rounded slices and covered in Perspex. The central slice is of the Dover Harbour area in 1595
February 9, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Captain, customs officer, amateur painter, draughtsman, watercolourist and etcher: the many occupations held by Captain Thomas Hastings (1778–1854). The pictured sketchbook is attributed to him, and it contains drawings of recognisable scenes in #Dover, including St Nicholas' #church in Barfrestone.
A closed landscape sketchbook with marbled decorative cover. The sketchbook cover is worn with age. It is closed with an metal clasp. The sketchbook is open at a page with a pencil drawing of the outside of a Norman church in Barfrestone called St Nicholas' church. The picture is of the East end, featuring its wheel window. A recent photograph of the outside of a Norman church called St Nicholas' in Barfrestone. The picture is of the East end, featuring its wheel window.
February 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Captain, customs officer, amateur painter, draughtsman, watercolourist and etcher: the many occupations held by Captain Thomas Hastings (1778–1854). The pictured sketchbook is attributed to him, and it contains drawings of recognisable scenes in #Dover, including St Nicholas' #church in Barfrestone.
A closed landscape sketchbook with marbled decorative cover. The sketchbook cover is worn with age. It is closed with an metal clasp. The sketchbook is open at a page with a pencil drawing of the outside of a Norman church in Barfrestone called St Nicholas' church. The picture is of the East end, featuring its wheel window. A recent photograph of the outside of a Norman church called St Nicholas' in Barfrestone. The picture is of the East end, featuring its wheel window.
February 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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This #FindsFriday we wanted to highlight a new acquisition: two axe head mould halves dated to Middle #BronzeAge (c 1500-1200BC). The moulds cast a type of axe head known as a palstave. Discovered by metal detectors and acquired by #Dover Museum through @findsorguk.bsky.social .
PAS ID: KENT-CDA99E
Two halves of a Bronze Age axe head mould laid side by side. The mould shows the shape of the axe head that would have been cast. The sides run parallel before flaring out to a curved cutting edge. The side flanges and central ridge in the mould create a shape in the axe head for hafting, which is the process of attaching the axe head firmly within a split in the haft (handle). A photo of two halves of a Bronze Age axe head mould laid side by side. The photo shows the outside of the mould with teardrop-shaped ridges towards the end.
January 23, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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Behind the scenes, Dover Museum’s Collections Team and volunteers have been condition checking collections and cleaning their cases in the Roman Painted House.
The Roman Painted House remains closed for the Winter season, but we look forward to welcoming you back in the Spring
#Roman #Dover #Museum
The museum collection's manager and a volunteer are positioning glass from Roman Painted House display cases ready to clean. On the right a volunteer is cleaning the inside of the case. A museum volunteer is repositioning Roman coins in a case after they have been condition checked and the case cleaned. Another museum volunteer is repositioning a Samian ware bowl after condition checking objects and cleaning the case.
January 20, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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Cyclamen bring welcome colour to winter!

Did you known a common name for cyclamen is sowbread or swinebread? Pigs are fond of eating the roots! 🐷

📷 Illustration from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691]

#FlowersOnFriday #FridayFlowers #RareBooks
Photograph of an opened book, tshowing a full page colour illustration of Sow Bread (cylcamen), Sea Milkwort, and Chickweed Winter Green. The flowers are coloured in shades of pink and white, the stems and leaves are coloured in shades of pink and green, and the roots are coloured in shades of brown.
January 9, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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Watch until the end for our special guest feature!
Over on Dover Museum's reels we've been sharing The 12 Displays of Christmas each day. Here's the 12th and final day for you all. Join in!
🎵"On the twelfth day of Christmas in Dover's Galleries..."🎵
#12daysofChristmas #twelfthday #Dover #Deal
January 5, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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Watch until the end for our special guest feature!
Over on Dover Museum's reels we've been sharing The 12 Displays of Christmas each day. Here's the 12th and final day for you all. Join in!
🎵"On the twelfth day of Christmas in Dover's Galleries..."🎵
#12daysofChristmas #twelfthday #Dover #Deal
January 5, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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A detail from a John Lewis Roget (1828–1908) watercolour sketch for all the umbrella weather ☂️

#watercolour #wind #rain #weather #Dover #archives
A man is holding an umbrella while sat on a fold out chair in the countryside. He is wearing a brown brimmed hat, grey shawl, and brown trousers and shoes.
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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This door for #adoorablethursday is from the Maison Dieu. Above the door a carving of the word Museum in the stonework can still be seen marking a former entrance to Dover Museum. After bomb damage at its Market Square site in 1942 the museum temporarily moved to the ground floor of the Maison Dieu.
A colour photograph of a wooden door with intricate metal work. The word museum is carved in stone above the door. Above the door are stained glass windows set into flint stone work.
December 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Come along to a free family art workshop at Dover Museum to make a doll house sized Christmas dinner!
📅Saturday 20th December
🕙Drop in 10.00-3.00
Make your choice of Christmas dinner out of clay and then when it is dry you can paint it. Just in time for Christmas!
[Image description: clay models of doll house sized Christmas food before and after painting. Models are of a turkey with vegetables, a nut roast and a Christmas pudding. They can be seen through an illustration of a doll house window in a room set for Christmas dinner.]
December 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Seeing @danherb10.bsky.social photograph of this beautiful church door in Barfreston reminded me of this pen drawing of the same door in a sketchbook dated c1830 from #Dover Museum's archives.

#adoorable #AdoorableThursday #church
A sepia pen drawing of a church door in Barfreston. The drawing is of a rounded carved stone archway featuring details of Christ. The archway is above a wooden door with metal work. There are stone columns either side of the door.
December 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Come along to a free family art workshop at Dover Museum to make a doll house sized Christmas dinner!
📅Saturday 20th December
🕙Drop in 10.00-3.00
Make your choice of Christmas dinner out of clay and then when it is dry you can paint it. Just in time for Christmas!
[Image description: clay models of doll house sized Christmas food before and after painting. Models are of a turkey with vegetables, a nut roast and a Christmas pudding. They can be seen through an illustration of a doll house window in a room set for Christmas dinner.]
December 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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A detail from a John Lewis Roget (1828–1908) watercolour sketch for all the umbrella weather ☂️

#watercolour #wind #rain #weather #Dover #archives
A man is holding an umbrella while sat on a fold out chair in the countryside. He is wearing a brown brimmed hat, grey shawl, and brown trousers and shoes.
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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A warning from the past: if there is anything you would like to preserve long-term in good condition, please don't stick tape on it!

As tape deteriorates, it can discolour, become brittle, lose its adhesive strength, and leave a residue stain.

Enough to give an archivist nightmares! 👻
A pile of discoloured tape strips on the right, next to a piece of paper on the left with an orange residue stain.
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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#NationalIllustrationDay celebrates illustrated pictures as well as the people who make and create them. One of the stories our Curating Visibility fellow, Karl, explored for At the End of History exhibition was the life and work of Victorian illustrator and author Anne Pratt (1806-1893).
An oil portrait of Anne Pratt sitting with an open book of botanical illustrations. She has dark brown hair tied back and is wearing a white dress. A colour photo of the display in the At the End of History exhibition, featuring two of Anne Pratt's books. Infront of the books are dried flowers laid carefully on paper. To the left of the books is a Victorian drawing box with drawing implements. In the background there is a graffitied exhibition panel on the Victorian period. A copy of the book 'Wild flowers of the year' by Anne Pratt. The book is open on a page of coloured botanical illustrations. This book is perched on another book by Anne Pratt titled 'Things of the Sea Coast'
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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When in Dover….. visit @dovermuseum.bsky.social.
Currently exhibiting a history of Crabble sports ground (the terraces have some great wild plants) and an immersive VR presentation that includes Anne Pratt. Must be a first.
November 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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📣New #Exhibition at #Dover Museum: Crabble Athletic Ground.

On the 6th January 1896, four businessmen in Dover formed a syndicate named Dover Athletic Ground Ltd with a plan to create a cricket ground and cycling track.
An angled shot of an exhibition display case showing ephemera from sports teams and events at Dover Athletic Ground (Crabble Athletic Ground), including programmes, poster, a cricket club badge, sepia and black and white photographs of sports teams
November 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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📣New #Exhibition at #Dover Museum: Crabble Athletic Ground.

On the 6th January 1896, four businessmen in Dover formed a syndicate named Dover Athletic Ground Ltd with a plan to create a cricket ground and cycling track.
An angled shot of an exhibition display case showing ephemera from sports teams and events at Dover Athletic Ground (Crabble Athletic Ground), including programmes, poster, a cricket club badge, sepia and black and white photographs of sports teams
November 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Last week, I went to go visit @karlantmercer.bsky.social 's "At the End of History," at @dovermuseum.bsky.social and had a fantastic day out. The VR portion of the exhibit is like nothing I've ever experienced before. Highly urge everyone to see this exhibit before it closes. #DisHist
Part of the "At the End of History" exhibition. Pictured are a Victorian Artist's box with a label describing it as well as information about the illustrator Anne Pratt. Behind it is wall text/graphics with the word "Nothing" in purple graffiti overlying this. The co-produced collage "About Us" from the exhibition "At the End of History." It features work by disabled people associated with this exhibition and has tactile and audio elements/was made to be touched and explored via touch and audio as well as via sight.
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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As we spend this time of year reflecting on the nature of death and remembering the dead, Dover Museum looks to their collections that relate to this theme. Pictured are drawings of gravestones from around #Dover District and #Thanet by John Lewis Roget (1828–1908).

#Halloween #Thesaurus
A series of small pencil drawings of 18th century gravestones from Deal, Sandwich, Ripple and Ramsgate. The gravestones feature symbols including skulls, crossed bones, angel wings, and hourglasses. A series of small pencil drawings of 18th century gravestones from Sandwich, Ripple and Ramsgate. The gravestones feature symbols including skulls, crossed bones, angel wings, and hourglasses. Three small pencil drawings of 18th century gravestones from Deal, and Ripple. The gravestones feature symbols including skulls, crossed bones, angel wings, and hourglasses.
October 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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This exhibition at #dovermuseum was absolutely amazing.
As a #dyslexic #neurodiverse person it was an absolute joy to see an interactive exhibition dedicated to #disability & #neurodiversity . It was inclusive both in topic and experience and really #dyslexic friendly!
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It's World Audiovisual Heritage day! For Dover Museum’s newest exhibition, Curating Visibility Fellow Karl Mercer and a team of deaf, disabled and neurodivergent co-producers explored the Museum’s collections to create an immersive experience using VR.
#AudioVisualHeritage #AudioVisualHeritageDay
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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It's World Audiovisual Heritage day! For Dover Museum’s newest exhibition, Curating Visibility Fellow Karl Mercer and a team of deaf, disabled and neurodivergent co-producers explored the Museum’s collections to create an immersive experience using VR.
#AudioVisualHeritage #AudioVisualHeritageDay
October 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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#OnThisDay, October 23 1905, Getrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was a medal winning Olympic champion swimmer, who also became the first recorded woman to successfully swim the Channel on August 6th 1926.
Image description: A black and white photograph of Gertrude Ederle standing in the sea and smiling at the camera. She is wearing a swimming cap and a swimming costume with a swimming association logo
October 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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New exhibition curated by Dover Museum's Curating Visibility fellow, @karlantmercer.bsky.social
At the End of History: Open from 20th October. Free entry.
Entry to VR experience is by advanced booking only: tinyurl.com/mw4m4bbj

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October 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM