Information Resources

The Collection information and pictures

Online exhibition - Channel Swimmers

Articles and Factsheets on Dover history subjects

• Cinque Port Pilots
• Courts Wine Merchants
• Freemen of Dover
• History of Dover Museum
• How to Research your house
• Noel Coward and Ian Fleming at White Cliffs
• Researching Family History - sources
• Sawyer's Velocipede
• The White Cliffs of Dover

Dover Museum's collection includes:

• a strong archaeology collection, including the magnificent Bronze Age Boat, as well as Roman, Saxon and medieval artefacts from Dover and the surrounding area.
• a good local picture collection
• social history artefacts reflecting how the people of Dover lived

Some of the objects in the collection have been featured in our Collection Focus section. And further selections of objects are to be added as part of a continuing Online Resource project.