Museum Collections in Kent
Online image collections and resources
"This is the point to speke it plat and plain,
That eche of you is shorten with youre way,
In this viage, shall tellen tales tway,
To Canterbury ward, I mene it so,..
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Prologue, Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
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Agricultural Museum Brook for information on the buildings (oast house and medieval barn) and collections (horse-drawn implements and small tools)
Biggin Hill Memorial Museum: has a search feature for its online collection catalogue of digital images
Dover Museum: online image collection, so far only Channel swimming but more is due to be added from the museums very extensive collections
Folkestone Museum: online searchable catalogue of the museum’s holdings.
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Historic Dockyard Chatham: online searchable catalogue of the museum’s extremely large collections, digital images gradually being added.
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Kent Museum of Freemasonry: Glassware and ceramics gallery. The Museum of Freemasonry, Holborn has access to searchable digital copies of the major English Masonic publications from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.
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Maidstone Museum: searchable database of the museum’s wide-ranging collections, provides images
Royal Museums Greenwich: collections online and archives and library catalogues, also crew lists of the British Merchant Navy from 1915 and other listings
Sandwich Guildhall Museum: in the process of adding more online resources, and at present it has materials from three past exhibitions that can be viewed online
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Click on the Green links to visit the home pages of Kent museums and the Blue links for information about other available museums