Museums and galleries

Take a fresh look at Kent, England’s oldest county, and get in touch with thousands of years of heritage and traditions.

View the world’s oldest seagoing vessel, the Bronze Age Boat, at Dover Museum, crafted a mere 3,550 years ago. Go underground in Canterbury Roman Museum to the level of the Roman town to browse the remains of a house, mosaics and reconstructions.

Wander amid Victorian oast houses at The Hop Farm Country Park, Paddock Wood, and learn about Kent’s traditional hop growing industry. Discover more at the open-air Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree, whose outstanding collection of historic buildings leads you through changes in local ways of life.

Then step into the 21st century at one of Kent’s many galleries. The new Turner Contemporary being built in Margate will be a centre for visual arts, and is named after the artist JMW Turner, who described Margate as having ‘the loveliest skies in Europe’. 

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