Dover Museum, England

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For museums in any other town or city named Dover, see Dover (disambiguation).

Dover Museum is a museum in Dover, Kent, in south-east England. Its collections, displayed on three floors include:

• Ground floor — Archaeology gallery — Dover and the Dover District Council area (including Deal and Walmer, which do not yet have their own town museum, only the Deal Maritime Museum) from prehistoric times to 1066, including Roman and Saxon Dover (including the Saxon cemetery from Buckland). It reuses a diorama of Claudius's arrival on elephant at Richborough in 43 AD and full size reconstructed figures of a Celt and a Roman, all three of which are from the now defunct White Cliffs Experience next door.
• First floor — Temporary exhibition gallery.
• Second floor:
  • History of Dover town, Cinque Ports and Dover Castle from 1066 to the modern era.
  • The 2003 Dover Bronze Age Boat gallery, where the Langdon Bay hoard and (from 17 October 2006) the Ringlemere Cup are displayed.

[edit] External links

• Dover Museum website
• Information from the 24 Hour Museum

[edit] See also

• Dubris for Ancient Roman remains.