Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
@dovermuseum.bsky.social
Dover Museum and Bronze Age Boat Gallery is one of the oldest museums in Kent, founded in 1836. Free Entry.
Our blog page: https://www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Information-Resources/Blog/Blog-Home.aspx
Our blog page: https://www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Information-Resources/Blog/Blog-Home.aspx
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
November 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
📣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.
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.
📣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.
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.
November 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
📣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.
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.
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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
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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
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
#Halloween #Thesaurus
October 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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
#Halloween #Thesaurus
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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!
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!
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
#AudioVisualHeritage #AudioVisualHeritageDay
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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!
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!
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
#AudioVisualHeritage #AudioVisualHeritageDay
October 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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
#AudioVisualHeritage #AudioVisualHeritageDay
#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.
October 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
#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.
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
@accentuateuk.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
@accentuateuk.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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
@accentuateuk.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
@accentuateuk.bsky.social
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After a successful private launch of my exhibition I was reminded of that time I delivered a poem that is definitely not under 60 seconds long in under 60 seconds.
At the End of History at @dovermuseum.bsky.social opens to the public on 20th October.
At the End of History at @dovermuseum.bsky.social opens to the public on 20th October.
Today, December 3rd, Karl Mercer our Curating Visibility Fellow recites his poem 'Always Been' to celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
See below for full transcript ⬇️
See below for full transcript ⬇️
October 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
After a successful private launch of my exhibition I was reminded of that time I delivered a poem that is definitely not under 60 seconds long in under 60 seconds.
At the End of History at @dovermuseum.bsky.social opens to the public on 20th October.
At the End of History at @dovermuseum.bsky.social opens to the public on 20th October.
October 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
'What's in the Grandfather Clock?'
Come along to a free family art workshop at #Dover Museum to make a haunted room for #Halloween!
📅Saturday 18th October
🕙Drop in 10.00-3.00
Come along to a free family art workshop at #Dover Museum to make a haunted room for #Halloween!
📅Saturday 18th October
🕙Drop in 10.00-3.00
October 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
'What's in the Grandfather Clock?'
Come along to a free family art workshop at #Dover Museum to make a haunted room for #Halloween!
📅Saturday 18th October
🕙Drop in 10.00-3.00
Come along to a free family art workshop at #Dover Museum to make a haunted room for #Halloween!
📅Saturday 18th October
🕙Drop in 10.00-3.00
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Love a hovercraft. Meet Dougal, on display in our museum because he was the mascot of 200 Hovercraft Squadron, Royal Corps of Transport. They adopted him because he glides along the ground, much like a hovercraft 😍
October 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Love a hovercraft. Meet Dougal, on display in our museum because he was the mascot of 200 Hovercraft Squadron, Royal Corps of Transport. They adopted him because he glides along the ground, much like a hovercraft 😍
#OnThisDay, October 1st 2000, the last hovercraft arrived in Dover having made its final cross Channel journey. A hovercraft first landed in #Dover on 25th July 1959 after crossing the Channel in two hours.
October 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
#OnThisDay, October 1st 2000, the last hovercraft arrived in Dover having made its final cross Channel journey. A hovercraft first landed in #Dover on 25th July 1959 after crossing the Channel in two hours.
Today is #WorldMaritimeDay. Pictured is a #watercolour of Granville Dock at #Dover Harbour in 1843 by S.J. Mackie (1823-1902) from Dover Museum's collection. Mackie’s work included a custom’s official, a civil engineer, an antiquarian, a fossil enthusiast and geological editor.
September 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Today is #WorldMaritimeDay. Pictured is a #watercolour of Granville Dock at #Dover Harbour in 1843 by S.J. Mackie (1823-1902) from Dover Museum's collection. Mackie’s work included a custom’s official, a civil engineer, an antiquarian, a fossil enthusiast and geological editor.
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Dover opens heritage sites for national festival
Dover District Council says locals can
www.bbc.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Dover opens heritage sites for national festival
Dover District Council says locals can
www.bbc.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Exhibition: Museum in miniature
An exploration of miniature versions of things from life that people have produced and enjoyed.
📅Open June 10th 2025-April 2026
📍Special Exhibitions Gallery, #Dover #Museum #exhibition #miniature #seagull
An exploration of miniature versions of things from life that people have produced and enjoyed.
📅Open June 10th 2025-April 2026
📍Special Exhibitions Gallery, #Dover #Museum #exhibition #miniature #seagull
September 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Exhibition: Museum in miniature
An exploration of miniature versions of things from life that people have produced and enjoyed.
📅Open June 10th 2025-April 2026
📍Special Exhibitions Gallery, #Dover #Museum #exhibition #miniature #seagull
An exploration of miniature versions of things from life that people have produced and enjoyed.
📅Open June 10th 2025-April 2026
📍Special Exhibitions Gallery, #Dover #Museum #exhibition #miniature #seagull
It’s #WorldBeardDay and what better place than a museum to showcase beards or tools that helped keep them, such as the Vikings and their reputations for great hair care and tresses. In #Dover Museum is a bone comb previously identified as Anglo-Saxon, now recognised as a 10th century #Viking comb.
September 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It’s #WorldBeardDay and what better place than a museum to showcase beards or tools that helped keep them, such as the Vikings and their reputations for great hair care and tresses. In #Dover Museum is a bone comb previously identified as Anglo-Saxon, now recognised as a 10th century #Viking comb.
Hot Bovril, anyone? ☕
On this day, in 1911, Thomas William Burgess started his 18th attempt at #swimming the Channel. Burgess set off from South Foreland in #Dover at 11:15am. The following day he arrived in France at 9:50am to become the second person to successfully swim the English Channel.
On this day, in 1911, Thomas William Burgess started his 18th attempt at #swimming the Channel. Burgess set off from South Foreland in #Dover at 11:15am. The following day he arrived in France at 9:50am to become the second person to successfully swim the English Channel.
September 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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September 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
September 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#OnThisDay in 1875 Captain Webb was paraded through the Highstreet of his birth town in Dawley to celebrate his historic Channel swim. This later inspired a postcard with the legend that a “pig was put on the wall to see Captain Webb’s procession pass”, by the landlord of the Crown public house.
August 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
#OnThisDay in 1875 Captain Webb was paraded through the Highstreet of his birth town in Dawley to celebrate his historic Channel swim. This later inspired a postcard with the legend that a “pig was put on the wall to see Captain Webb’s procession pass”, by the landlord of the Crown public house.
#OnThisDay, in 1875, Captain Matthew Webb started his Channel swim diving from the Admiralty Pier in #Dover just before 1pm. 21 hours and 45 minutes later he arrived in France. He was the first person recorded to successfully complete a solo swim of the English Channel.
#CaptainMatthewWebb
#CaptainMatthewWebb
August 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
#OnThisDay, in 1875, Captain Matthew Webb started his Channel swim diving from the Admiralty Pier in #Dover just before 1pm. 21 hours and 45 minutes later he arrived in France. He was the first person recorded to successfully complete a solo swim of the English Channel.
#CaptainMatthewWebb
#CaptainMatthewWebb
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Thistle hopefully brighten your Friday! 💐
We hope you have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.
📷 Illustration of spear, marsh, creeping and woolly thistles from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691]
#FridayFlowers #FlowersOnFriday #RareBooks
We hope you have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.
📷 Illustration of spear, marsh, creeping and woolly thistles from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691]
#FridayFlowers #FlowersOnFriday #RareBooks
August 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Thistle hopefully brighten your Friday! 💐
We hope you have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.
📷 Illustration of spear, marsh, creeping and woolly thistles from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691]
#FridayFlowers #FlowersOnFriday #RareBooks
We hope you have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.
📷 Illustration of spear, marsh, creeping and woolly thistles from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691]
#FridayFlowers #FlowersOnFriday #RareBooks