Whitstable Museum

Brilliant Museum Day! Bring the kids and try the safe museum challenges. Browse old maps, photos and railway posters in the heritage print shop. Checkout the 8th oldest steam locomotive Invicta. 10:30 to 4:30 today Saturday 24th July. All covid-19 precautions in place.

WHITSTABLE MUSEUM OPEN: Thursday to Saturday every week, 10:30 to 4:30. Play new Invicta 'Spot & Dot' game, or just marvel at the eighth oldest steam locomotive in the world! CT5 1DB.

OPEN Bank Holiday Monday, please visit Whitstable Museum CT5 1DB. Invicta is the 8th oldest preserved locomotive in the world! Come and see the original close up! Activities for children and stuff for adults. Open 10:30 to 4:30, and normally open Thursdays to Saturdays.

Whitstable Museum OPEN. Thursdays to Saturdays every week (we hope!). NEW exhibitions and a new 'Spot and Dot' for children to find interesting stuff in the exhibitions. AND new Invicta and Diving displays. 10:30am to 4:30pm.

Whitstable Museum OPEN! Thursdays to Saturdays every week from now. New exhibitions, new displays but still Covid safe. Please visit!

Museum Print Shop OPEN: Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 December 10:30 to 4:00. Mounted & framed prints, posters ready to frame. Solve a gift problem and help your museum - win-win! Will also open Wednesday 23rd Dec. Whitstable Museum, 5a Oxford Street, Whitstable, CT5 1DB.

Heritage Prints at Whitstable Museum. We scan original maps to a high resolution and print on our professional Epson printer. This "Kent with her Cities and Earles" by John Speed was published in 1611, although our print is later. Last day in the museum front shop (31st Oct).

Families love the SPOOKY HUNT - well spaced and safe. HINT 1: the rusty old chain is not inside the museum building. HINT 2: The Dragons' Blood is dangerous and is guarded by museum staff. Open Friday 30th and Saturday 31st 10:30 to 4:30. Quietest time is 12:30 to 1:30.

Children's Activities at YOUR museum! A new "Spot & Dot" for the garden - between showers! Plus the free "Spooky Hunt" (Hint: the chain is in the garden) with real dragon's blood (the lady who sold it to us said …). Open 29, 30, 31 October 10:30 to 4:30. CT5 1DB

Strange Goings On at Your Museum! A safe version of our Spooky Hunt for children Wednesday 28th to Saturday 31st October. Versions for younger and older children. Win a kit to make a horrible thing at home! Free entry to postcodes CT1 to CT6. 10:30am to 4:30pm.

Your Museum is open. Every Thursday to Saturday we will open as usual. The Museum Shop has new prints of the opening of the Canterbury to Whitstable Railway. Posters, old Whitstable photographs and maps are available framed and as mounted prints. 10:30 to 4:30pm.

WHITSTABLE MUSEUM - Last day of "Heritage Open Days" today Sunday 20th September. Entry is free and we are open on a Sunday! Games for children.

Volunteer Harriet has created a new museum game for children 3 to 8 years. Based in the garden, simply 'Spot' the object and 'Dot' the sheet. The laminated sheet is cleaned before use. Mystery prize for completion until end of August.

Pop Up Ceramics! Stephen Hall has the museum shop for just this weekend 1st - 2nd August. A huge range of folded, textured and glazed clay. 5a Oxford Street, Whitstable CT5 1DB.

Before photography we had to rely on the artist's sketch. This one by T M Baynes of 1830 struggles with super-tall trees and Invicta's wheels but is otherwise rather good. Can you answer the simple questions? (Expand the image first). @crabandwinkle

A view of Canterbury from St Stephen's Hill. A compact city but with windmills, huge barracks and a cubic water mill. Outside the town all is rural, except that the Industrial Revolution has intervened. Date please? Who was Adelaide? Second class travel is rather basic!

A couple of yesterday's close-ups were easy, Shivering Sands Fort 1943, Samian (Roman) lamp 100-150AD. The engine house chimney on Whitstable Harbour (painted 1924) and the flywheel of the Robert Stephenson winding engine 1829 were more difficult. More tomorrow.

Whitstable Virtual Museum: More close-ups to puzzle over. Please say what you can see and a rough date when the object was in use. No prizes - just delight in your skill. Answers tomorrow. Keep safe.

Congratulations - although nobody got all four right! Small cannon ball from Seasalter c1850. Nelson Road 1953 flood. Replica stone age arrow head 2018. Diving suit c1900. More later!

Whitstable's Virtual Museum! Lets have some fun with these close-ups. What are we looking at and approx. date please? Answers tomorrow!