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Events
- Museum Culture Club – September 24, 2031
- Stories & Rhymes – September 3, 2031
- Museum Culture Club – August 27, 2031
- Stories & Rhymes – August 6, 2031
- Museum Culture Club – July 30, 2031
- Stories & Rhymes – July 2, 2031
- Museum Culture Club – June 25, 2031
- Stories & Rhymes – June 4, 2031
- Museum Culture Club – May 28, 2031
- Stories & Rhymes – May 7, 2031
- Museum Culture Club – April 30, 2031
- Stories & Rhymes – April 2, 2031
- Museum Culture Club – March 26, 2031
- Stories & Rhymes – March 5, 2031
- Museum Culture Club – February 26, 2031
- Stories & Rhymes – February 5, 2031
- Museum Culture Club – January 29, 2031
- Stories & Rhymes – January 1, 2031
- Museum Culture Club – December 25, 2030
- Stories & Rhymes – December 4, 2030
- Museum Culture Club – November 27, 2030
- Stories & Rhymes – November 6, 2030
- Museum Culture Club – October 30, 2030
- Stories & Rhymes – October 2, 2030
- Museum Culture Club – September 25, 2030
- Stories & Rhymes – September 4, 2030
- Museum Culture Club – August 28, 2030
- Stories & Rhymes – August 7, 2030
- Museum Culture Club – July 31, 2030
- Stories & Rhymes – July 3, 2030
- Museum Culture Club – June 26, 2030
- Stories & Rhymes – June 5, 2030
- Museum Culture Club – May 29, 2030
- Stories & Rhymes – May 1, 2030
- Museum Culture Club – April 24, 2030
- Stories & Rhymes – April 3, 2030
- Museum Culture Club – March 27, 2030
- Stories & Rhymes – March 6, 2030
- Museum Culture Club – February 27, 2030
- Stories & Rhymes – February 6, 2030
- Museum Culture Club – January 30, 2030
- Stories & Rhymes – January 2, 2030
- Museum Culture Club – December 26, 2029
- Stories & Rhymes – December 5, 2029
- Museum Culture Club – November 28, 2029
- Stories & Rhymes – November 7, 2029
- Museum Culture Club – October 31, 2029
- Stories & Rhymes – October 3, 2029
- Museum Culture Club – September 26, 2029
- Stories & Rhymes – September 5, 2029
- Museum Culture Club – August 29, 2029
- Stories & Rhymes – August 1, 2029
- Museum Culture Club – July 25, 2029
- Stories & Rhymes – July 4, 2029
- Museum Culture Club – June 27, 2029
- Stories & Rhymes – June 6, 2029
- Museum Culture Club – May 30, 2029
- Stories & Rhymes – May 2, 2029
- Museum Culture Club – April 25, 2029
- Stories & Rhymes – April 4, 2029
- Museum Culture Club – March 28, 2029
- Stories & Rhymes – March 7, 2029
- Museum Culture Club – February 28, 2029
- Stories & Rhymes – February 7, 2029
- Museum Culture Club – January 31, 2029
- Stories & Rhymes – January 3, 2029
- Museum Culture Club – December 27, 2028
- Stories & Rhymes – December 6, 2028
- Museum Culture Club – November 29, 2028
- Stories & Rhymes – November 1, 2028
- Museum Culture Club – October 25, 2028
- Stories & Rhymes – October 4, 2028
- Museum Culture Club – September 27, 2028
- Stories & Rhymes – September 6, 2028
- Museum Culture Club – August 30, 2028
- Stories & Rhymes – August 2, 2028
- Museum Culture Club – July 26, 2028
- Stories & Rhymes – July 5, 2028
- Museum Culture Club – June 28, 2028
- Stories & Rhymes – June 7, 2028
- Museum Culture Club – May 31, 2028
- Stories & Rhymes – May 3, 2028
- Museum Culture Club – April 26, 2028
- Stories & Rhymes – April 5, 2028
- Museum Culture Club – March 29, 2028
- Stories & Rhymes – March 1, 2028
- Museum Culture Club – February 23, 2028
- Stories & Rhymes – February 2, 2028
- Museum Culture Club – January 26, 2028
- Stories & Rhymes – January 5, 2028
- Museum Culture Club – December 29, 2027
- Stories & Rhymes – December 1, 2027
- Museum Culture Club – November 24, 2027
- Stories & Rhymes – November 3, 2027
- Museum Culture Club – October 27, 2027
- Stories & Rhymes – October 6, 2027
- Museum Culture Club – September 29, 2027
- Stories & Rhymes – September 1, 2027
- Museum Culture Club – July 28, 2027
- Stories & Rhymes – July 7, 2027
- Museum Culture Club – June 30, 2027
- Stories & Rhymes – June 2, 2027
- Museum Culture Club – May 26, 2027
- Stories & Rhymes – May 5, 2027
- Museum Culture Club – April 28, 2027
- Martyrs & Mayhem – Exhibition – April 24, 2027
- Stories & Rhymes – April 7, 2027
- Museum Culture Club – March 31, 2027
- Stories & Rhymes – March 3, 2027
- Museum Culture Club – February 24, 2027
- Resin Flower Workshop with Mona Whitton – December 12, 2026
- Christmas Craft Market – December 5, 2026
- Father Christmas’ Fireplace 2026 – December 5, 2026
- Stories & Rhymes – December 2, 2026
- Wreath Making Workshop – November 28, 2026
- How Julius Brenchley Explored the World – November 26, 2026
- Museum Culture Club – November 25, 2026
- Silent Disco at the Museum – November 21, 2026
- Hiroshige’s Tokaido: A Japanese Journey – November 14, 2026
- Rock ‘n’ Roll: 50s Band & Bash – November 7, 2026
- Dungeons & Dragons Taster Session – November 7, 2026
- Stories & Rhymes – November 4, 2026
- The Spellbound Soirée: Fairies, Monsters & Fantasy Ball – October 31, 2026
- Spooky Fun and Halloween Giggles – Kids Party! – October 31, 2026
- SEND Family Crafts – October Half Term 2026 – October 30, 2026
- African Drumming – October 28, 2026
- October Half Term – Make It! Crafts 2026 – October 27, 2026
- The Gruffalo – Free Family Workshop – October 26, 2026
- Stitch a Story: Handmade Bookmarks – October 24, 2026
- Ghosting Hunting at Maidstone Museum – October 23, 2026
- Museum Culture Club – October 21, 2026
- Behind the Scenes Tour: Art Collection – October 10, 2026
- Remembering Jacquetta: Maidstone’s Link to a Dynasty – October 8, 2026
- Stories & Rhymes – October 7, 2026
- Museum Culture Club – September 30, 2026
- Carriage Museum Tour – September 26, 2026
- Heritage Open Day: Tour of the Local History Gallery – September 19, 2026
- Observatory Tower Tour – September 19, 2026
- Stories & Rhymes – September 2, 2026
- Hollywood Rome – July 4, 2026
- Strive 2026 – June 27, 2026
Blog
- Uncovering a Maidstone Female Artist: Margaret (Peggy) Hazlitt
- ‘So, what happened to the Royal West Kents?’
- Kentish Ragstone and the Maidstone Iguanodon Blog
- KIM Takeover Day 2022
- How fossils become stone and what can happen to them in a collection ~ Tony Mitchell, Museum Volunteer
- Object in Focus: Bracteates from Sarre and Bifrons
- What Do I Do With My Collection?
- ‘The Value of Revisiting Archaeology’ By Dr Michael Legge
- Beautiful Beadwork Baskets ~ International Women’s Day
- Speculum Mundi
- Minerva Victrix of Plaxtol
- Thomas Vicary (c1440s– 1561)
- A Grenadian Artist in Maidstone: Gordon de la Mothe OBE
- Maidstone and its Industrial Past (Part 5)
- Maidstone and its Industrial Past (Part 4)
- Maidstone and its Industrial Past (Part 3)
- The Blue Coat Children Reunited
- Maidstone and its Industrial Past (Part 2)
- Maidstone and its Industrial Past (Part 1)
- The Story of L/9831 Patrick Donovan DCM
- Mothers at the Museum
- History on our doorstep – a walk in Headcorn
- John Halle, of Maidstone, a forgotten Surgeon and a Poet (1529-1568)
- Winter in Woodblocks
- Mistletoe Viscum album
- NETSUKE: Miniature Marvels
- Maidstone’s Motoring Pioneer, Jesse Ellis
- COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR ROBERT DARLEY. QUEEN’S OWN (ROYAL WEST KENT) REGIMENT
- Hen’s teeth from Sheppey
- Fascinating Fiji
- Sophia Stacey: Independent Woman and Muse to Shelley
- Carriages, Celebrity and Spectacle The photographs of Christina Broom
- Albert Goodwin: Maidstone’s Visionary Landscape Artist
- A 100-year-old lecture: William Alexander by JH Allchin, Maidstone Museum Curator 1902-1923
- The Name of the Regiment By Steve Finnis, Museum volunteer
- A piece of the action, our relics of Waterloo and other Napoleonic memorabilia
- What killed the dinosaurs? By Tony Mitchell, Museum volunteer
- Escape of Captain Dennis Talbot 80 Years Ago
- George Baxter: The Picture Printer of the 19th Century
- Fashion in Art at Maidstone Museum
- Geological Time
- Kimono in Japanese Art
- Maidstone’s Iguanodon
- The Brenchley Tapas
- Barbara de Seyssell – an eye for archaeology at the shoreline
- Joan Florence Hall
- Marie Stopes 1880 -1958
- Sofonisba Anguissola circa 1552 to 1625
- Art inspired by the Brenchley Gallery by Lionel Ousdine
- Cur8 Object Opinion – Cara
- Cur8 Object Opinion – Samuel
- Cur8 Object Opinion – Dominic
- Cur8 Object Opinion – Charlie
- Cur8 Object Opinion – Alannah & Molly
- Cur8 Object Opinion – Carmen & Libby
- Cur8’s Object Opinion – Kiu Yan
- Cur8’s Object Opinion – Charlotte
- A Centenary Celebration of Alfred Cohen; 1920 – 2001
- Your Voices, Your Choices…
- Japanese Gallery Closed
- The Battle of Kohima, 75 years on
- Holocaust Memorial Day 2019
- Stylish Accessories
- Lest We Forget
- An inside-out Tansu
- Japanese Dreams
- ‘Turtle Woman’, Kamejo
- Happy 160th Birthday Maidstone Museum!
- Green Spaces, Natural Faces
- Julius Brenchley: Maidstone’s Gentleman Explorer
- Maidstone Museum scoops another Award!
- Representation of Women and Femininity in Japanese Woodblock Prints
- Paper Conservation
- When a hawk mummy is not a hawk mummy
- Hope’s Venus
- Black and White Art Competition Winners Announced!
- Award Nomination
- Painting conservation reveals exciting find!
- The UK’s first female press photographer
- An early 20th Century female traveller to Africa
- Iconic Hokusai Great Wave
- Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada: British-Japanese Studio Potters
- Uncovering Items From Ancient Lives
- Ancient Lives Gallery Decant
- CUR8 – Fundraiser
- CUR8 at the British Museum
- Older People in Museums: Ageing in the Ancient Civilisations Gallery Project
- Nudity and Protest: From Lady Godiva to the Present Day
- Japanese Fine and Applied Art
- Staff Pick: Otagaki Rengetsu Tea Set
- Staff Pick: Pregnancy Corset
- Staff Pick: Brenchley Canoe
- Staff Pick: Anglo Saxon Crystal Balls
- Staff Pick: Slave Chains
- Staff Pick: Albert Goodwin Paintings
- CUR8 at the Petrie Museum
- Staff Pick: Barbara Villiers
- Coming Home Reviews
- Julian Richards praises Maidstone Museum at fundraising event
- Life at the Museum – Beth Anderson
- Maidstone Museum’s Collectors of Japanese Art
- Findings from Maidstone Museum’s mummy scan
- Revelations abound with scanning of Maidstone Museum’s mummy
- Life at the Museum – Roz Meredith
- The Sutra of the Demon-Mother told by the Buddha
- Staff Profile – Rebecca Arnott
- The Golden Lotus: Beauty vs Brutality
- 24 Paragons of Filial Piety
- Pokémon and Pest Infestations
- Otagaki Rengetsu
- Frank Hyde
- In With the New
- Scroll Paintings in Maidstone Museum’s Collection (Part 3)
- Scroll Paintings in Maidstone Museum’s Collection (Part 2)
- Scroll Paintings in Maidstone Museum’s Collection (Part 1)
- Maidstone Museum wins Heritage Lottery Fund support
- Atemono – Japanese Classic Magic
- Kintsugi – Revealing Beauty Through The Broken
- Carving a New Aesthetic: Japanese Ukiyo-e Woodcut Prints
- ‘Kodomo no hi’ – Children’s Day in Japan
- Maidstone Museum Claims Award
- Women Soldiers of the Kagoshima Rebellion
- A Confused Japanese Print: Toyoharu’s Dutch Views
- January Collections News
- Study of Iron Age Pottery
- Visit from the King Family
- Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective
- Volunteers’ Week
- Iggy goes back on display
- Sgt Thomas Harris VC Remembered
- New Use For Natural History
- Quirky Collections
- Museum’s Collections Featured