List of museums in Kent

This list of museums in Kent, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Name	Image	Town/City	Region	Type	Summary
Agricultural Museum, Brook		Brook	Ashford	Agriculture	website, barn and oast house with farm tools, equipment, wagons
Brattle Farm museum		Staplehurst	Maidstone	Agriculture	information, open for groups by appointment only, historic farm equipment, household items, vintage cars
Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway		Bredgar	Swale	Railway	Heritage railroad and museum with steam locomotives & engines, freight and carriage stock, railway artefacts
Brenzett Aeronautical Museum		Brenzett	Shepway	Military	website, history of RAF Brenzett, remains recovered from aircraft crash sites, World War II aircraft, military equipment and memorabilia
Brook Pumping Station		Chatham	Medway	Technology	website, 1920s pumping station with two diesel engines, exhibits of local industrial equipment
Chart Gunpowder Mills		Faversham	Swale	Industry	website, 18th century gunpowder factory with watermill, one of the sites of the Faversham explosives industry
Chatham Historic Dockyard		Chatham	Medway	Maritime	Includes 3 historic warships: HMS Gannet (1878), HMS Cavalier (R73) and HMS Ocelot (S17), a Victorian rope factory, a recreation of the working life of the dockyard in 1758, the Museum of the Royal Dockyard, a museum about the work of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Chillenden Windmill		Chillenden	Dover	Mill	Reconstructed mid 19th century windmill
C M Booth Motor Museum		Rolvenden	Ashford	Transportation	website, collection of Morgan Motor Company three wheel cars, bicycles, tricycles, model cars, automotive memorabilia
Colonel Stephens Railway Museum		Tenterden	Ashford	Railway	History of Colonel H. F. Stephens, manager of the Kent and East Sussex Railway, railway equipment and memorabilia
Crabble Corn Mill		River	Dover	Mill	website, Georgian and Victorian watermill
Crampton Tower Museum		Broadstairs	Thanet	Multiple	website, life and works of railway engineer Thomas Russell Crampton, local railways, electric tramways, road transport, industry, model railways, local history
Davison's Mill		Stelling Minnis	Shepway	Mill	Mid 19th century windmill
Dover Transport Museum		Dover	Dover	Transportation	website, cars, bicycles, buses, road vehicles, model railway and tramway, local transport history, model vehicles, maritime display, 1930s garage and period shops, farm vehicles
Draper's Windmill		Margate	Thanet	Mill	Mid 19th century windmill
East Kent Light Railway		Shepherdswell	Dover	Railway	Heritage railway and signal box visitor centre with railroad artifacts, model railway
Elham Valley Railway Museum		Peene	Shepway	Railway	website, history of the Elham Valley Railway, railway artifacts, local history, railway model of the Channel Tunnel
Farming World		Boughton	Swale	Agriculture	website, farm park with museum of lawnmowers and garden tools
Guildhall Museum, Rochester		Rochester, Kent	Medway	Local	website, local history, culture, Victorian period drawing room and kitchen, fine art, exhibits on Charles Dickens, and agricultural engine and steam roller manufacturer Aveling and Porter
Herne Windmill		Herne	City of Canterbury	Mill	Late 18th century windmill
Kent Battle of Britain Museum		Hawkinge	Shepway	Military	History of RAF Hawkinge and the Battle of Britain, World War II aircraft
Kent Life		Sandling	Maidstone	Open air	Formerly the Museum of Kent Life, 28-acre (110,000 m²) heritage farm, historic houses, farm and village buildings
Killick's Mill		Meopham	Gravesham	Mill	Early 19th century windmill
Lashenden Air Warfare Museum		Headcorn	Maidstone	Aviation	website, located at Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield, military aircraft and aviation history
Manston Fire Museum		Manston	Thanet	Firefighting	Includes vehicles, models, badges, patches, uniforms, helmets, prints, extinguishers and fire fighting equipment
Preston Steam Museum		Preston	Kent	steam museum	Stationary steam engines, other steam power related items (only open part time) (at Preston Services yard)
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway		New Romney	Shepway	Railway	Heritage railway headquarters at the New Romney railway station with engine sheds and model train museum
Royal Engineers Museum		Gillingham	Medway	Military	History of the Corps of Royal Engineers and British military engineering
South Foreland Lighthouse		Dover	Dover	Maritime	Operated by the National Trust, first lighthouse powered by electricity and the site of the first international radio transmission
Spitfire & Hurricane Memorial Museum		Manston	Thanet	Aviation	website, World War II military aviators and aircraft, aviation memorabilia
Stocks Mill		Wittersham	Ashford	Mill	18th century windmill
Swanton Mill		Mersham	Ashford	Mill	information, information, weather boarded watermill in working order
Tyrwhitt-Drake Museum of Carriages		Maidstone	Maidstone	Transportation	website, collection of horse-drawn vehicles and transport curiosities
Union Mill		Cranbrook	Tunbridge Wells	Mill	Early 19th century windmill
White Mill Rural Heritage Centre		Sandwich	Dover	Mill	Includes a mid 18th century windmill, early 20th century period miller's cottage, farming and craft tools, a wheelwright's workshop, and a blacksmith's workshop
Woodchurch Mill		Woodchurch	Ashford	Windmill	Early 19th century windmill

Defunct museums

• Charles Dickens Centre, Rochester, closed in 2004
• Dolphin Sailing Barge Museum, Sittingbourne, closed after a fire in 2009
• Kent Fire and Rescue Service Museum, Maidstone
• Margate Seaside Museum, Margate, website archive, closed in 2009
• Ramsgate Maritime Museum, Ramsgate, closed in 2009
• White Cliff Experience, Dover

See also

• Category:Visitor attractions in Kent

References

• Visit Britain: Museums & Galleries in Kent