The Collection

Dover Museum has a strong collection, built up over the 150 years of the museum's history.

For the past 10 years the museum has focussed its collection towards the history and archaeology of Dover. This section will concentrate on highlights

Focus on the Collection : selected objects

• Puritan Pocket Watch : Oval silver Puritan watch (1857)
• The Deal Man : A 7" (18cm) high carved chalk figurine found in 1987 by the Dover Archaeological Group (1991)
• The Dover Saxon Ring : A magnificent and important Anglo Saxon Gold ring, Mid-6th Century (c.550AD)
• 460 Postcards of Dover : A local man had been collecting postcards of Dover for over 25 years. (2007)
• Polar Bear : the Koettlitz Polar Bear (June 1998).
• Bone Ship : an intricately carved bone Prisoner-of-war crafted model ship (July 1998).
• Amphora shaped glass jar : Roman archaeological find from the Deal Archaeological Collection (August 1998)
• Channel Swimming Photograph : Jabez Wolffe and Thomas Stearne at South Foreland (September 1998)
• Model Cannon and Gun Carriage : Working Model of a seven inch rifled breech-loading Armstrong pattern field gun.(October 1998)
• Southern Railway Poster : Kenneth Shoesmith, 1936 (November 1998)
• Greetings Postcard : New Years Greetings Card (December 1998)
• Bellarmine Jug (January 1999)
• Roman Pharos two prints of the Roman lighthouse on Castle Hill above Dover (February 1999)
• A Selection of Fossils : a small selection of fossils, tying in with our annual fossil roadshow, held in March (March 1999)
• Granville Dock : a watercolour by S. J. Mackie (April 1999)
• Chain Home Low Radar Station : Shelling during World War Two (May 1999)
• Tram No. 4, Bench Street, Dover : glass slide (June 1999)
• Louis Bleriot's landing : photograph (August 1999)
• St. Mary's Church : engraving and postcard (September 1999)
• Ripple Hoard : a hoard of 5 Bronze Age palstaves   (October 1999)