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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
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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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Old St James’ façade and doorways are still standing among the ‘Tidy ruin’ which is kept as a commemorative monument to the wartime experience of the people of Dover.
#adoorable #adoorableThursday #explorechurches
A photograph of the 'tidy ruins' of old St James' church Dover from the West entrance showing arches to doorways.
December 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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In 1949 this museum doorway was widened and fitted with doors repurposed from old St James’ church, a building also damaged in the war. The painting shows St James’ church in 1868 by architect Thomas Talbot Bury (1809-1877) during work to uncover and consolidate Norman architectural details.
A watercolour and ink drawing with white highlights of old St James' church Dover from 1868 during its restoration work.
December 18, 2025 at 8:22 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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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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#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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📣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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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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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
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Verified. This happened.

Deal Man is very proud 🥲
Deal Man is an 18cm carved chalk figurine from Dover Museum's display. Here he is shown with a proud tear in his eye.
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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New exhibition coming soon: At the End of History

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An automatic glass door way in a darkened room. Above the door way is a lit up purple sign saying 'At the End of History'. Below the sign is a black and yellow sign saying 'this way' with an arrow pointing down to the door. Between the doorway and the signs is a green fire exit sign. A glimpse of the exhibition can be seen behind the glass doors
October 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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'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
An illustrated card model of a room with blue and green walls. In the room there are illustrations of a fire place with an urn and two dog statues on top, a portrait of a man in a moustache, and a grandfather clock with a door that opens to show a ghost hiding behind it
October 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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#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.
A model of a hovercraft with blue and red branding showing Hover Speed written on the back. The hovercraft is displayed on fabric to look like the sea, and is placed among other historic models of ships in the background
October 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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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.
A 19th century watercolour painting of the Granville Dock at Dover Harbour with people and docked vessels. Painted from the York Hotel, it shows Custom House Quay, Strond Street and Snargate Street. The spires of Holy Trinity Church in Strond Street are also visible. In the foreground is the remains of a wooden boat hull, and there are cliffs in the background
September 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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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 illustration of Dover Museum's façade with four seagulls on the roof. The façade is cream and white and features archways and columns. It also features black, orange and white Dover Museum Entry signs. There are illustrations of clouds on a dusky blue background. A larger illustration of seagull is perched on the title 'Museum in miniature'
September 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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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.
A bone comb broken vertically in three pieces. Some of the comb's teeth are missing. The design of the comb is symmetrical. The connecting plates at the top of the comb are curved and connected with rivets. There is a slight inward curve at the side of the tooth plate. The combs teeth have been made by cutting into the the tooth plate. Some cutting marks can be seen on the connecting plate.
September 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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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.
A photograph of Thomas William Burgess in the sea with a cup taking a drink. The edge of a supporting boat can be seen on the left. The caption on the bottom states: "Burgess Channel Swim: I want Bovril, not this"
September 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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#September

A watercolour and ink sketch of #Sandwich from 1888 by John Lewis Roget (1828–1908).
A watercolour sketch with black ink to emphasise outlines and details. The scene is of Sandwich in the foreground is a river and field. In the background are a series of buildings including a windmill and a church.
September 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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#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.
A black and white postcard featuring a montage of images: (left) a man with a moustache wearing a flat cap with a pig sat on a wall looking on; (right) a profile picture of Captain Webb wearing a white shirt and three medals; and a procession of people holding instruments and a banner. A caption is placed vertically on the right: 'who was it that put the pig on the wall to see Captain Webb's procession pass?
August 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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#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
A black and white photograph of a head of a sculpture of the head and chest of Captain Webb on top of a memorial with a dedication plaque. There is a wreath laid in front of the plinth. The statue is situated in gardens in front of a large building called the Hotel Burlington. A small off white card ticket. The text reads: Unveiling of the national memorial to Captain Matthew Webb, at Dover, Wednesday, June 8th, 1910. Admit to enclosure
August 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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📢Free family workshop at Dover Museum! Make a mini museum!
Make your own mini museum in 3D, then fill it with your personal collection at home.
📅Saturday 23rd August
🕙Drop in 10.00-3.00
On the left is a hand drawn and coloured card model of Dover Museum. On the right there is a large illustration of a seagull over looking the museum. There are illustrations of clouds on a dusky blue background.
August 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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! Calling for #volunteers !
Production of our exciting Curating Visibility exhibition is now in full-swing.
We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to facilitate the virtual reality experience.
See link below to find out more ⬇️
www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Exhibitions/...

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Text reads 'Dover Museum needs you'. The image is a parody of a World War I Lord Kitchener Recruitment poster, and features Deal Man from Dover Museum in a field marshal style uniform, looking and pointing at the viewer
August 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM