Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery

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St Faith's Street

Maidstone

Kent

ME14 1LH

 

About

Welcome to…Maidstone museums – our main Museum also housing the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum is in St Faith’s Street and our Carriage Museum is in Mill Street.
Our main award- winning museum, housed in a beautiful Elizabethan manor house, is one of the best in the South- East.
Highlights include:
• A 2,500 year old Egyptian mummy;
• Maidstone’s local history – from toffees to cricket balls!
• A fascinating journey through time when dinosaurs stalked the earth;
• One of the finest collections of Japanese art in the country;
• Magnificent ‘Old Master’ oil paintings; and
• The splendour of the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum

Run by Maidstone Borough Council, the museum is FREE to the public and demonstrates the commitment of the council to providing first class cultural and educational facilities to everyone.

We run activities for children every day during school holidays please see www.museum.maidstone.gov.uk for more details.

Opening information

Monday to Saturday 10am - 5.15pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm

Closed: Christmas Day - 28th Dec and New Year's Day.

Admission

Free (free entry)

This attraction (Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery) was last updated by the attraction owner on 2010-03-12 09:12:00 UTC