Welcome to
DOVER MUSEUM
& the Bronze Age Boat Gallery

Dover Museum is a local history and archaeology museum situated in the town centre of Dover, Britain's historic port town.

It is home to the Dover Bronze Age Boat, the world's oldest known seagoing boat and a fascinating archaeological discovery.

It is a modern museum which tells Dover's rich and important history through:

• the museum's fine collection, including a splendid archaeology collection;
• clear and legible illustrated panels (with French precis);
• models and replicas, including a wonderful set of scale models showing the development of the town and port of Dover from the Roman times up to 1990;
• informative computer displays, which include games and interactives for all ages;
• and access to an illustrated database of the museum's reserve collection.

Dover Museum's displays cover the prehistory and history of Dover: 

• Prehistoric Dover, including one of the finest Bronze Age displays in the country
• Roman glass and pottery from some of Dover's many Roman sites
• Anglo-Saxon finds from the Buckland Cemetery excavation (on loan from the British Museum)
• the Norman conquest and the burning of Dover
• the history of Dover Castle,
• the medieval development of the town and port, including a magnificent portrait of Elizabeth I
• the Victorian rebuilding of the town
• and Dover's important place in both World Wars.

Dover History Articles :

• Freemen of Dover
• The Coalfield Heritage Initiative Kent
• Cinque Port Pilots
• Sawyer's Velocipede
• Noel Coward at St. Margaret's Bay
• Court's Wine Merchants

Education Service

• Details of our Special Days for Schools