Partial closure in the Bronze Age Boat Gallery: The area containing the Bronze Age boat film will be closed for 10 months due to building work. However, the room with the Bronze Age boat itself will remain open and available to view. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Introducing Karl Mercer! Our Curating Visibility Fellow. The disabled-led Curating Visibility project aims to uncover overlooked disability stories in museum collections and find exciting multisensory ways to reinterpret them. #curating4change

The half-size reconstruction of the Dover Bronze Age Boat has returned to grounds near Dover Museum. A team of will be working on deconstructing, cleaning and reconstructing the boat ready for its next journey to Paris for an exhibition of the European Bronze Age in 2025.

On Sunday 11th August, Dover Museum will be running a free family craft workshop: Make an Animal Mask. Make a mask inspired by the Animals Everywhere! exhibition, then wear it at Dover Carnival! Visit dovermuseum.co.uk to book your free place

*Please note the change of available times for this activity* Our animal mask craft workshop on Sunday 11th of August will be running between 10:00-14:45. Visit dovermusuem.co.uk to book your free place.

Discovered in 1987 in Deal, the 'Deal Man' is a carved chalk figurine of Celtic design, dated around the late Iron Age or early Roman period, it is a fascinating representation of the human form. Come see it for real in Dover Museum!

This Sunday 11th August, Dover Museum will be running a free family craft workshop: Make an Animal Mask. Make a mask inspired by the Animals Everywhere! exhibition, then wear it at Dover Carnival! Visit dovermuseum.co.uk to book your free place

On Wednesday 28th August 10am-3pm RSPCA Canterbury and District Branch will be holding a pop day pop up Pet Food Bank in the Education Room at Dover Museum. Please come along and collect a top up of cat, kitten, dog or puppy food.

On #worldfashionday we thought we would look at some of the behind-the-scenes work with two of our volunteers who are undertaking important preventative conservation work on items from our textiles collection.

Tomorrow! On Wednesday 28th August 10am-3pm RSPCA Canterbury and District Branch will be holding a day pop up Pet Food Bank in the Education Room at Dover Museum. Please come along and collect a top up of cat, kitten, dog or puppy food.

Dover's Roman Painted House is reopening to the public after a major refurbishment to its visitor facilities. Tap below to read more: bbc.in/3MVIlr2

#Onthisday 26 September 1944. The last cross-channel shell fell on Dover. To commemorate the 80th anniversary there is a temporary exhibition in the museum's ground floor case telling the story of Lilian and Gordon Roper and their war service in Hellfire Corner.

Do you like swashbuckling adventures about old-time smuggling in Kent in the early 19th century? Thanks to Screen South and Folkestone Documentary Festival you can play my interactive documentary, inspired by my work at Dover Museum, about it! Details here! folkestonedocumentaryfestival.co.uk/events/neighbo…

A trailer for a thing I've been working on that will be shown as part of the Neighbourhood Photogrammetry Exhibition at Folkestone Documentary Festival in partnership with Screen South. Huge thanks to Curating Visibility and Dover Museum for supporting me with it & PWRR & Queen's Regiment Museum for the props.

On Saturday October 26th, come along for a free craft activity at Dover Museum to create a Halloween black cat decoration. Drop-in from 10:00-3:00. Make a clay cat, take it home and then when it is dry you can paint it and then hang it up with a ribbon!

The neighbourhood photogrammetry exhibition opens today! Presented by Screen South for Folkestone Documentary Festival I used my connections at Dover Museum and PWRR & Queen's Regiment Museum to turn real objects and stories into a digital interactive documentary.

Vessels and Voyagers is a new exhibition available to view in Dover Museum from October 19th to January 19th. showcasing a retrospective of entries from the National Historic Ships UK (NHS-UK) photography competition along with a display of objects from Dover Museum’s collection

Now recruiting: Curating Visibility Fellowships. Do you love museums and want to pursue a curatorial career? Do you define as Deaf, disabled or neurodivergent? Apply now screensouth.org/events/curatin…

Do you love museums and want to begin to pursue a curatorial career? Do you define yourself as D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent? If so, make sure to check out this incredible paid placement opportunity with Curating Visibility. Read more or apply here: screensouth.org/events/curatin…

A theme of this time of year reflects on the nature of death and remembering the dead. This gold cast #mementomori ring commemorates an individual. The inner inscription MM obt, 24 nov, 1712 aet 82, likely remembers Mary Matson buried at St.James, #Dover on 28 November 1712.