Exhibitions

Temporary Exhibition Gallery:

 Channel Crossings

This exhibition tells the story of the English Channel from prehistory to modern times, and its impact on the development of Dover.

Children age 5-11 can pick up a free Channel Crossings passport to help explore the exhibition and the rest of the museum.

This exhibition will be open from July 2023 until May 2024. 

Our current stairwell exhibition:

RNLI 200 - celebrating the bicentenary of the RNLI and focusing on the history and contribution of the four lifeboat stations in the Dover district: Dover, Kingsdown, North Deal and Walmer.

Our Online Exhibitions

• Channel Firing
  A response by  Peter Sheppard Skaerved  to Dover Museum's WWI collections
• Channel Swimmers 
  An online resource on the early history of swimming the English Channel
• Eleven Empty Spaces 
  The 1989 Bombing of the Royal Marines School of Music in Deal
• Coal Mining in Kent
  The history of coalmining in Kent