Dover Museum site map

1. About Dover Museum

• News and Press Releases
• Education Service
• Friends of Dover Museum
• Events at Dover Museum

2. Education Service

3. The History of Dover

• Prehistoric Dover
• Roman Dover
• Saxon Dover
  • St. Mary in Castro
• Norman Dover
• Medieval Dover
  • Dover Priory
  • St. Mary's Church
  • The Maison Dieu
• Tudor and Stuart Dover
• Dover in the 19th Century
  • Transport
  • Industry
  • Dover Harbour
• Dover in the 20th Century

4. Dover Bronze Age Boat

The Dover Bronze Age Boat

• An Introduction to The Dover Bronze Age Boat
• The Discovery of the Dover Boat
• The Excavation of the Dover Boat
• Conservation of the Dover Boat
• The Reconstruction Experiment
• The re-assembly of the Dover Boat at Dover Museum

The Dover Bronze Age Boat Gallery

• An Introduction to the Boat Gallery and Events Programme
• Belief and Ritual in the Bronze Age
• Bronze Age Living
• Bronze Age Technology - metalwork, pottery, farming
• Bronze Age boat building skills
• Bronze Age Trade
• Science and Archaeology - studying the Bronze Age Boat

5. Dover Museum's Collections

Collection Focus

A detailed look at a highlighted object from the collection 

• Polar bear (June 1998)
• Napoleonic Bone Model Ship (July 1998)
• Amphora glass jar (August 1998)
• Photograph : Wolffe and Stearne, Channel Swimmers at Dover (September 1998)
• Model Cannon and Gun Carriage (October 1998)
• Southern Railway Poster (November 1998)
• New Years Greeting Card (December 1998)
• Bellarmine Jug (January 1999)
• Roman Pharos (February 1999)
• Fossils (March 1999)
• Granville Dock, watercolour (April 1999)
• Shelling of Radar Station, Dover (May 1999)
• Tram No. 4, Bench Street, Dover (June/July 1999)
• Landing of Louis Bleriot (August 1999)
• St. Mary's Church : engraving and postcard (September 1999)

Online Resources

• History of Dover Museum
• Sawyer's Velocipede
• Noel Coward and Ian Fleming at White Cliffs
• Researching Family History - sources
• The White Cliffs of Dover
• Courts Wine Merchants

Channel Swimming

• The Pioneers - Boyton and Webb
• Early Attempts - Holmes, Holbein, Burgess and Wolffe
• Between the wars - breaking records
• 1950s heyday
• Sam Rockett