Don't miss out on seeing the lovely Flower Power Stitch instillation from the Soul Stitch Society in our Courtyard! The exhibition showcases contributions from the three stitch groups in the Maidstone area. #MaidstoneMuseum #stitch #SoulStitchSociety #FlowerPower

One of the highlights of the new gallery will be the skeleton of a woman buried nearly 1500 years ago. Scientific analysis of her teeth and bones has shown how she might have lived. kentarchaeologicalsociety
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This #PhotoFriday : Harts Cottages at Boughton Quarries, Boughton Monchelsea, 1909. An idyllic image of rural England with picturesque cottages and their well-kept vegetable gardens. (Old Maidstone Collection, OM030) #Photographs #LocalHistory #Maidstone #Maidstone Museum

It's SEND Family Friday on 31 May! Designed to include your SEND child, their siblings, and parents/guardian. Create a planned craft or something from your imagination. Two sessions per day with a small number of spaces. For more information and booking bit.ly/47Z87UA

Time for ice cream! Di Marco’s started to make ice cream in 1940 in Week Street, Maidstone. The ice cream was often sold from bikes. #Spring #MarvellousMay #Maidstone #Maidstone Museum

Happy #PhotoFriday : Tovil Court, Maidstone, c. 1900. Photo by Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt Drake who was the founder of Maidstone’s Carriage Museum and twelve times mayor of Maidstone. (Old Maidstone Collection, OM023). #Photographs #LocalHistory #Maidstone #Maidstone Museum

Join us for Stories and Rhymes on the first Wednesday of the month, 10.30-11.30am. Listen to a story, join in with action rhymes and songs, and make a paper craft to take home. Max of 8 children per session.
For more information: museum.maidstone.gov.uk/whats-on/event… #MaidstoneMuseum

Famous Places in Edo. Yoshiwara. A large cherry-tree in blossom in bamboo-fenced bed, down centre of street lined with restaurants and Yoshiwara houses Woodblock print by Hiroshige, Utagawa II (歌川広重). Creator: Fujikei. #Spring #CherryBlossom #Art #MaidstoneMuseum

Top Secret Behind the Scenes tour of our new Lives In Our Landscape gallery! Make sure to come and visit when it opens Summer 2024. This video contains flashing images. #LivesInOurLandscape #LOIL #tour #MaidstoneMuseum #Secret

Calling all local crafts creatives! We are holding a Spring market at Maidstone Museum on Saturday 4 May. If you are interested in having a stall, then please complete the form on our website museum.maidstone.gov.uk/whats-on/event… Stalls are going fast… #MaidstoneMuseum #Spring #Market

For #PhotoFriday : The ‘Royal Albion’ Public House, Havock Lane, Maidstone, c. 1930. A view that is much changed. The pub is still there, but the house to the left was demolished & now under Fremlin Walk. (Marley Collection, MC009) #Photographs #LocalHistory #Maidstone

Roman glass bottle found at the Roman walled cemetery near Langley, Kent. Excavated by Smythe and entered the collection of Thomas Charles, founder of Maidstone Museum. #Archaeology #Roman . #LocalHistory #MaidstoneMuseum

Calling all local crafts creatives! We are holding a Spring market at Maidstone Museum on Saturday 4 May. If you are interested in having a stall, then please complete the form on our website museum.maidstone.gov.uk/whats-on/event… Stalls are going fast… #MaidstoneMuseum #Spring #Market

On #PhotoFriday : Digons House, Knightrider Street, Maidstone, c. 1920s. Once home to a forefather of George Washington, the first president of the United States of America, sadly it was demolished in 1964. (Marley Collection, MC045) #Photographs #LocalHistory #Maidstone

Mystery Answer time! The family that the carriage belonged to was the Royal family, specifically Queen Victoria! Have you visited the Carriage Museum since it has reopened on Saturday's? If you have make sure you come and give us a visit between 11am-3pm. #MaidstoneMuseum

Calling all local crafts creatives! We are holding a Spring market at Maidstone Museum on Saturday 4 May. If you are interested in having a stall, then please complete the form on our website museum.maidstone.gov.uk/whats-on/event… Stalls are going fast… #MaidstoneMuseum #Spring #Market

This week's mystery object is from the carriage museum! Can anyone guess which family this carriage belonged to? Hint: check the insignia! Let us know your answer in the comments below and if you've ever been to the Carriage Museum before? #MaidstoneMuseum #MysteryObject

A piece of Egyptian Dynastic pottery in the form of a handled jar made of Nile-silt with red slip. Marked with 'Alexandria, April 24th 1827' and part of the Charles Collection, so one of the earliest pieces in Maidstone Museum collection. #Egyptology #Antiquaries #MaidstoneMuseum