Wheels of Time

Wheels of Time – badge collecting family fun

Join ‘Roamin’ Rex and discover many of Kent’s museums and heritage sites, collecting individual badges along the way. Visit any of the museums and heritage sites shown on the MAP and collect a different badge at each one.

You can now collect physical badges from 56 sites (2023-4)

Earn award badges – on site visits

Collect a lanyard to display your badges at your second site and collect 10,20,30, 40 or 56 badges to earn a special Roamin’ Rex award badges. Contact Wheels of Time via AWARDS to make arrangements to be presented with your award badge.

Badges are available to child visitors aged between 5 and 11 years visiting with their family.

Maidstone Museum’s badge features Spike Dino. Please ask at the main reception for your badge.

For more details, head over to the Wheels of Time website today.

Please note: ‘Wheels of Time’, ‘Roamin’ Rex’ and the Roamin’ Rex logo are trademarks of Ashford Borough Museum Society.

Digital e-badge collecting

Welcome to our digital e-badge offer.

We have 2 activity options – one is a quick word search, and the other is a longer 30 minute activity where you can watch some short films about the museum and answer some questions. At the moment they both get the same badge (you can only claim each site’s badge once).

Option 1. (this will take 10+ mins)

Complete the word search – all the words are linked to collections in the museum. If you search each word on our website you can find out more about each collection. Read the instructions at the bottom of the word search to claim the badge code.

Click for Word Search Activity

Option 2. (this will take 30-40 minutes to complete)

Take a virtual tour of the Wheels of Time heritage sites by visiting websites and complete an activity to claim a digital badge.

To claim your Maidstone Museum e-badge follow the instructions below.

Go to https://museum.maidstone.gov.uk/these-walls-can-talk/ and follow the links to watch the 4 short films that take you on a guided tour of Maidstone Museum from Lady Chilly and learn about how the building has changed over almost 1000 years. Watch to find out the answers to the questions on the downloadable sheet below. Now no need to email for the code- check out the answer sheet below once you’ve completed the questions.

We’ve tried to make it easier to get your badge code for completing the activity – to find out how look at the film answer sheet below, or the instructions on the word search. Alternatively email us once activity is complete and we will send you the code.

If you have any feedback or questions about Wheels of Time, please email us at museumeducation@maidstone.gov.uk

Good Luck

Maidstone Museum e-badge Activity

Wheels of Time heritage sites

Agricultural Museum, Brook

Ashford Museum

Blue Town Heritage Centre

Chiddingstone Museum

Crab Museum

Crabble Corn Museum

Cranbrook Museum

Deal Museum

Dover Museum

Dover Transport Museum

East Kent Railway

Eastchurch Aviation Museum

Eden Valley Museum

Elham Valley Railway Museum

Elvington & Eythorne Heritage Centre

Fleur De Lis Museum

Folkestone Fishing Heritage & Museum

Folkestone Museum

Fordwich Town Hall

Fort Amherst

Fort Luton

Guildhall Museum, Rochester

Heritage Hub, Sittingbourne

Huguenot Museum

Hythe Local History Room

Kent Museum of the Moving Image

Kent Police Museum

Lashenden Air Warfare Museum

Lydd Town Museum

Maidstone Museum

Margate Museum

Medway Queen

Milton Regis Court Hall

Minster Abbey Gatehouse Museum

Queenborough Guildhall Museum

RAF Manston History Museum

RAF spitfire and Hurricane Museum

Ramsgate Tunnels

Romney Marsh Wartime Collection

Rose Street Cottage of Curiosities

Royal Engineers Museum

Sandwich Guildhall Museum

Sevenoaks Museum

Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway

Sittingbourne Heritage Museum

Slough Fort

Snodland Millennium Museum

Tenterden Museum

The Old Forge Wartime House

The Seaside Museum, Herne Bay

Timeball Tower, Deal

Tudor House, Margate

Union Windmill, Cranbrook

Whitstable Community Museum

Willesborough Windmill

Woodchurch Village Life Museum

Kent Children’s University

Click for WOT wheels trail v2

Wheels of Time is a Kent Children’s University (KCU) accredited activity. Students can earn learning credits at various Wheels of Time sites. You can also earn additional credits at Wheels of Time sites that are accredited KCU Learning Destinations. Visit wheelsoftime.uk to find out which sites are KCU Learning Destinations.

Maidstone Museum have a wheel themed trail that can be completed to earn a KCU credit.

KCU learning credits are available to KCU students aged between 5 and 14 years, subject to the site accreditation. Visit www.kentchildrensuniversity.co.uk to learn more about Kent Children’s University.