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Museums & Galleries in Broadstairs
Rainy day or culture fix, the museums and galleries around Broadstairs have you covered — think Dickens House Museum, Broadstairs Museum, Arts and Media Centre and Crampton Tower Museum — many are free, and the distances below help you pick the closest.
Museums & Galleries
0.1 mi from Broadstairs
Dickens House Museum
Dickens House Museum sits in the Broadstairs cottage that inspired Betsey Trotwood's home in David Copperfield, and it's a rewarding stop if you enjoy literary history. Inside you'...
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0.2 mi from Broadstairs
Broadstairs Museum, Arts and Media Centre
0.3 mi from Broadstairs
Crampton Tower Museum
Crampton Tower Museum is a small museum partly housed in a flint Victorian water tower next to Broadstairs Railway Station, just steps from the train and a short walk from Viking B...
1.9 mi from Broadstairs
This Museum is (Not) Obsolete
This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete is an interactive museum in Ramsgate dedicated to experimental and obsolete scientific and musical technology. It was launched in 2020 by musician and...
3.3 mi from Broadstairs
Crab Museum
Crab Museum is Europe's first and only museum dedicated to the world of the decapod, located on the first floor above the Pie Factory Gallery on Broad Street in Margate. Inside, yo...
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3.9 mi from Broadstairs
Spitfire and Hurricane Memorial Museum
This museum at the historic RAF Manston airfield in Minster, Thanet, tells the story of the Battle of Britain through its centrepiece aircraft: a Spitfire Mk XVI and a Hawker Hurri...
5.4 mi from Broadstairs
Powell-Cotton Museum
The Powell-Cotton Museum is situated in Quex Park in Birchington and houses the diverse personal collections of hunter and explorer Percy Powell-Cotton. The museum also contains th... — Wikipedia
6.5 mi from Broadstairs
Richborough Castle Museum
Richborough Castle is a Roman Saxon Shore fort better known as Richborough Roman Fort. It is situated in Richborough near Sandwich, Kent. Substantial remains of the massive fort wa... — Wikipedia
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7.3 mi from Broadstairs
Sandwich Guildhall Museum
Sandwich Guildhall Museum sits in the heart of the town inside the historic 16th Century Guildhall, telling the story of Sandwich from its early beginnings to the present day. Insi...
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9.4 mi from Broadstairs
Deal Maritime and Local History Museum
Deal Maritime and Local History Museum sits in the heart of Deal, Dover, Kent, just 0.2 miles from Deal station and Deal Castle beach, making it an easy stop if you're exploring th...
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9.5 mi from Broadstairs
Kent MOMI
Kent MOMI is a not-for-profit museum in Deal, Dover, Kent, dedicated to the deep history of the moving image, from candle-lit magic lantern shows to the early days of cinema. Insid...
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9.6 mi from Broadstairs
Time Ball Tower
The Deal Timeball is a Victorian maritime Greenwich Mean Time signal located on the roof of a waterfront four-storey tower in the coastal town of Deal, in Kent, England. It was est... — Wikipedia
13.4 mi from Broadstairs
The Seaside Museum
The Seaside Museum Herne Bay is a local museum in Herne Bay, Kent, England. It was established in 1932, and is notable for being a seaside tourist attraction featuring local archae... — Wikipedia
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