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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 6h

At the end of history, what objects would you save? Whose story would you tell?

Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 6h

Curated by Dover Museum's Curating Visibility fellow, Karl Mercer, At the End of History is an interactive experience exploring how we engage with history and objects: who owns them? How do we use them? And what stories do we value?

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 6h

In a world where disability objects are the last surviving objects; to connect the public to their past, does this increase their value? And does seeing the world through the lens of disability change our view as a whole?

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 6h

You find what has been left behind is something undervalued and underrepresented by society – objects and stories of disability.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine being transported to a near future where museum collections are ammunition in conflict, where history has been defaced, destroyed, censored, stolen or sold. You are tasked with transporting the remaining objects and deciding what to do with the stories behind them.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 6h

New exhibition coming soon: At the End of History

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An automatic glass door way in a darkened room. Above the door way is a lit up purple sign saying 'At the End of History'. Below the sign is a black and yellow sign saying 'this way' with an arrow pointing down to the door. Between the doorway and the signs is a green fire exit sign. A glimpse of the exhibition can be seen behind the glass doors

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 1d

'What's in the Grandfather Clock?'
Come along to a free family art workshop at #Dover Museum to make a haunted room for #Halloween!
📅Saturday 18th October
🕙Drop in 10.00-3.00

An illustrated card model of a room with blue and green walls. In the room there are illustrations of a fire place with an urn and two dog statues on top, a portrait of a man in a moustache, and a grandfather clock with a door that opens to show a ghost hiding behind it

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The Royal Logistic Corps Museum @rlcmuseum.bsky.social · 8d

Love a hovercraft. Meet Dougal, on display in our museum because he was the mascot of 200 Hovercraft Squadron, Royal Corps of Transport. They adopted him because he glides along the ground, much like a hovercraft 😍

A museum display case with a model of Dougal the dog from the Magic Roundabout in it. For anyone who hasn't seen the fever dream that was the Magic Roundabout, Dougal is turbo cute and is basically a tube, with long, flowing, strawberry blonde hair, a big black nose and a red nose.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 8d

Pictured is a model of a hovercraft currently on display in the Museum in Miniature exhibition alongside other historical models of vessels that have crossed the Channel.

Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 8d

Invented by Sir Christopher Cockerel, the hovercraft vessel skimmed the water on a three-foot cushion of air and its service was significantly faster than the ferry from Calais to Dover.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 8d

#OnThisDay, October 1st 2000, the last hovercraft arrived in Dover having made its final cross Channel journey. A hovercraft first landed in #Dover on 25th July 1959 after crossing the Channel in two hours.

A model of a hovercraft with blue and red branding showing Hover Speed written on the back. The hovercraft is displayed on fabric to look like the sea, and is placed among other historic models of ships in the background

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 14d

S. J. Mackie was a major collector of native fossils and geology, and, after much of his natural history collection was sold in 1857, it formed the foundation of the original museum in Folkstone and remains part of the museum’s collection today.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 14d

S.J. Mackie is also an important figure for #Folkestone’s heritage. In response to his concerns that Folkestone’s history was being slowly eroded by time and the sea he authored a ‘Descriptive and Historical account of Folkestone’ followed by ‘A Handbook for Folkestone Visitors’ (1865).

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 14d

This year World Maritime Day reflects on the ocean’s vital role in the world economy and the need to protect and manage its environment and resources, so it seems fitting to reflect on the Harbour and Mackie's life today.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 14d

Today is #WorldMaritimeDay. Pictured is a #watercolour of Granville Dock at #Dover Harbour in 1843 by S.J. Mackie (1823-1902) from Dover Museum's collection. Mackie’s work included a custom’s official, a civil engineer, an antiquarian, a fossil enthusiast and geological editor.

A 19th century watercolour painting of the Granville Dock at Dover Harbour with people and docked vessels. Painted from the York Hotel, it shows Custom House Quay, Strond Street and Snargate Street. The spires of Holy Trinity Church in Strond Street are also visible. In the foreground is the remains of a wooden boat hull, and there are cliffs in the background

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 27d

That Bronze Age boat does like to flex its timbers...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dover opens heritage sites for national festival

Dover District Council says locals can

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 27d

That Bronze Age boat does like to flex its timbers...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dover opens heritage sites for national festival

Dover District Council says locals can

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 29d

Exhibition: Museum in miniature
An exploration of miniature versions of things from life that people have produced and enjoyed.
📅Open June 10th 2025-April 2026
📍Special Exhibitions Gallery, #Dover #Museum #exhibition #miniature #seagull

An illustration of Dover Museum's façade with four seagulls on the roof. The façade is cream and white and features archways and columns. It also features black, orange and white Dover Museum Entry signs. There are illustrations of clouds on a dusky blue background. A larger illustration of seagull is perched on the title 'Museum in miniature'

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · Sep 6

The comb was discovered in Sholden near Deal during landscaping, but a rare type to find in England. Its Viking association is an interesting development. Dover Museum is now looking to update the comb’s label and see what else we can find out.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s #WorldBeardDay and what better place than a museum to showcase beards or tools that helped keep them, such as the Vikings and their reputations for great hair care and tresses. In #Dover Museum is a bone comb previously identified as Anglo-Saxon, now recognised as a 10th century #Viking comb.

A bone comb broken vertically in three pieces. Some of the comb's teeth are missing. The design of the comb is symmetrical. The connecting plates at the top of the comb are curved and connected with rivets. There is a slight inward curve at the side of the tooth plate. The combs teeth have been made by cutting into the the tooth plate. Some cutting marks can be seen on the connecting plate.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · Sep 5

Burgess went on to train other Channel swimmers including Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the Channel. Ederle’s 100th anniversary Channel swim will be celebrated next year.

Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · Sep 5

The photograph was taken by Arthur Henry Whorwell who was part of the Dover Swimming Club and a local photographer with a studio in Bench Street.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · Sep 5

Pictured is Burgess on his swim taking a drink with the caption “I want Bovril not this”. Burgess’ swim was sponsored by Bovril. Wauchope Watson was a nutritionist for Burgess’s sponsor, Bovril, and accompanied and witnessed Burgess' successful cross Channel swim.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · Sep 5

This was after more than 70 attempts from different swimmers and 36 years after Captain Matthew Webb’s original success.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hot Bovril, anyone? ☕

On this day, in 1911, Thomas William Burgess started his 18th attempt at #swimming the Channel. Burgess set off from South Foreland in #Dover at 11:15am. The following day he arrived in France at 9:50am to become the second person to successfully swim the English Channel.

A photograph of Thomas William Burgess in the sea with a cup taking a drink. The edge of a supporting boat can be seen on the left. The caption on the bottom states: "Burgess Channel Swim: I want Bovril, not this"

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