:''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 to 26 February 2007, the
Ringlemere Cup) are displayed.
External links
★
Dover Museum website
★
Information from the
24 Hour Museum
See also
★
Dubris for
Ancient Roman remains.