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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · Aug 6

Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube. The first episode will be available from 3rd September!

Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · Aug 6

We are delighted to announce an exciting new project that we've been working on!

Loaves to Legends is a podcast brought to you by Sandwich Guildhall Museum. It's a podcast exploring the history of Sandwich; a small town with a big history.

#museum #historypodcast

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Loaves to Legends Podcast Trailer

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · Aug 5

We've been thinking a lot about the questions we get asked and stories from Sandwich's history that we haven't delved too deeply into. Tomorrow, you get to find out why! Keep your eyes peeled and ears open 👀 for an exciting announcement!

#localhistory #localmuseum #visitsandwich #visitdover

A purple and orange gradient with four different coloured squares on top of it. The top left square is yellow and orange, it has a black silhouette of a rat on it, with a white shield that has text reading "why is there a rat in the museum?". The top right square is red and orange, with the silhouette of a gavel and the text in the shield reads "do you wish to call any witnesses?" The lower left square is blue and yellow, with a silhouette of handcuffs and the shield reads "where were you on 30th March 1934?" and the lower right square is purple and orange, with a silhouette of bread on it and the shield has text reading "are there any other places that share their name with a food?"

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · May 25

This year's art exhibition will be based on our stained-glass window! Submissions for art work open on Monday 2nd May and close on Sunday 3rd August. You can visit the 16th century courtroom to view the window in person to get inspired.

A poster for Sandwich Guildhall Museum's Annual Art Competition and Exhibition with the following text: "Call for submissions, Monday 2nd May to Sunday 3rd August." The poster has an orange and brown background. On the background in various colours are outlines in different window shapes. There are faded lighter sections vertically and horizontally across the poster upon which the text is positioned. The text is on the right side of the poster. On the left side is a photograph of the Sandwich's courtroom stained-glass window in an arch shape with a gold border.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 25

The head was found by two local boys near Richborough Fort who took it home with them where it remained in the family’s garden for several decades before it was brought to the museum.

#localhistory #richborough #roman #museum

Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 25

The head of Commodus on display within the museum was likely to have been removed from a statue for the head of another emperor to be attached.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 25

Commodus ruled the Roman Empire as co-emperor with his father Marcus Aurelius in 177BC to 180BC when after his father’s death he ruled alone until his own death in 193AD.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 25

We have a student from University of Kent doing a work placement with us currently. Isabelle has been exploring our collections, starting with the Roman Head.

Photograph on a background that has an orange gradient. The photograph is of a Roman statue's head. It is the head of Commodus. It is worn with chips out of it and the statue is mostly missing its nose.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 22

Here is some of the work from last year's art exhibition, inspired by our Roman Bowl!

The theme this year is our stained glass window. We want to make a brightly coloured space full of artwork, and you can help us! We're accepting submissions now until 3rd August.

#artexhibition #museum

Photograph of pictures hanging on a white wall. There are various sizes of picture and some are unframed. One shows a Roman villa, painted in bright colours, another shows a pile of leaves, with a cross and a blue/green background. Another shows a Roman head with a blue and gold background. Multiple images show the Roman bowl from Sandwich Guildhall Museum, which is a blue/green colour.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · Jun 20

If you get the chance - & it’s perfect weather for a trip to the southeast coast! - do take a look at the Leave to Land Kitchener camp exhibition currently showing at the marvellous @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social

It’s run by the loveliest people, and they also hold some original Kitchener camp items.

Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · Jun 20

Chatting to the BBC, as one does, about the Kitchener Camp rescue on the annual trip to Sandwich this week, where the camp was located.

It’s the first time I’ve had a chance to return since 2019, and it was lots of fun.

Thank you @theajruk.bsky.social for organising the trip and the BBC interview!

Clare Weissenberg being interviewed in front of the panels of the Leave to Land exhibition she designed and later donated to the Wiener Holocaust Library in 2019 - from where the exhibition can now be borrowed for use at your school, village hall, museum, shul, or college.

The BBC introduces their slot about the Leave to Land exhibition currently on show at the Sandwich Guildhall Museum

Dr Clare Weissenberg designed the exhibition and later donated it to the Wiener Holocaust Library in 2019 - from where the exhibition can now be borrowed for use at your school, village hall, museum, shul, or college.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · Jun 20

Chatting to the BBC, as one does, about the Kitchener Camp rescue on the annual trip to Sandwich this week, where the camp was located.

It’s the first time I’ve had a chance to return since 2019, and it was lots of fun.

Thank you @theajruk.bsky.social for organising the trip and the BBC interview!

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 14

We're recruiting volunteers for this project now!

Join the team to take part in digitising and researching our postcard collection. Check out our website for all the details:

sandwichguildhallmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/let...

Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 14

Let’s do the time walk again! is a project funded by The National Heritage Lottery Fund and created by CCCU in partnership Deal Museum, Ramsgate Clock House Museum and Dickens House Museum and of course, us!

@kentmapsonline.bsky.social

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · May 25

When you read the description “Sandwich Round Table. Group of men with fake tortoises, 1975” and you just have to know what the photo looks like.

Black and white photograph outside Sandwich Guildhall. There is a van parked behind a group of people. In the foreground are two men crouched down, one of the is wearing the mayoral chains. There are two more men stood to the right and one is holding a sign. There is a boy on the right holding a sign reading “mile of pennies, start.” There are multiple fake tortoises on the floor surrounding the people. The mayor is gesturing towards a tortoise that reads “make a tortoise mile.”

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · May 25

The exhibition will be on display between the museum and courtroom from 3rd September to 28th September 2025.

The guidelines for submissions can be found on our website under What's On. The link is in our bio!

#artexhibition #localhistory #stainedglass #localmuseum

Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · May 25

We want to see bright, colourful work based on the shapes and colours in the window, or based on its history. However you choose to interpret it, it would also be great if your work was related to Sandwich.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · May 25

This year's art exhibition will be based on our stained-glass window! Submissions for art work open on Monday 2nd May and close on Sunday 3rd August. You can visit the 16th century courtroom to view the window in person to get inspired.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · May 25

We’re slowly building a collection of different photographs for the postcards in our shop! We now have Guildhall postcards and Ham Sandwich postcards to join the one of our stained-glass window.

#localhistory #museum #museumshop #postcard

Photograph of three brightly coloured postcards positioned at angles on a white background. One shows the Guildhall with a blue sky behind it, another shows an old road sign reading “Han Sandwich” and another shows a stained glass window of Queen Elizabeth I.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · May 21

We were delighted to welcome students from Sandwich Infant School to the museum this morning! They learnt all about the stained glass window and then helped us with a special project. 👀🎨

#sandwichtown #visitsandwich #sandwichkent #localhistory #localmuseum

Close up of geometric shapes including squares and diamonds, with the style of a stained glass window, which have been coloured in by a child. They are brightly coloured in mostly pinks and purples.

Close up of geometric shapes including squares and diamonds, with the style of a stained glass window, which are being coloured in by a child. Most of the shapes are not coloured in, apart from some pink and yellow triangles and diamonds.

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Gia Radley @gia-radley.bsky.social · May 10

I hosted this interview with @drcweissenberg.bsky.social, who shared some incredible and fascinating stories about her research into the Kitchener Camp. Please do give it a listen :)

Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · May 7

Tomorrow is VE Day. To share the story of the Kitchener Camp, we interviewed @drcweissenberg.bsky.social, creator of the Kitchener Camp Project. Join us as we learn more about Sandwich, a small town with a big history.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube now!

@wienerlibrary.bsky.social

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · May 8

On this day, 80 years ago, conflict in Europe ceased after war had raged on for six years. The fighting continued in other parts of the world, but the 8th May 1945 saw the surrender of German military operations and became known as Victory in Europe Day, or VE Day.

#VEDay80 #VEDay

Photograph of poppy bunting attached to a wall. The bunting is hung across a hallway parallel to the ceiling. The bunting is casting shadows onto the wall. Overlaid on the photograph is a faded white box with text inside it reading "VE Day 80."

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · May 7

Tomorrow is VE Day. To share the story of the Kitchener Camp, we interviewed @drcweissenberg.bsky.social, creator of the Kitchener Camp Project. Join us as we learn more about Sandwich, a small town with a big history.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube now!

@wienerlibrary.bsky.social

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · May 2

This talk complements the exhibition ‘Leave to Land’, curated by @drcweissenberg.bsky.social which uses memoirs, photos, official documents to illustrate the lives of the refugees who came to Sandwich. It is on display from now until Sunday 18th May.

A poster for an illustrated talk. The poster has a blue background with a white section at the top and an angled white section in the bottom right corner. There is red text reading "VE Day 80", followed by white text reading "FOUR THOUSAND GERMAN JEWISH REFUGEES IN SANDWICH 1939-40. Why they came, their role in WW2 1940/45, what happened next." There is an image of the book cover "Four Thousand Lives" by Clare Ungerson. On the right, next to the book, is text reading "Illustrated talk by Professor Clare Ungerson, 6th May 2025, 7pm, Guildhall Jury Room."

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · May 1

Just a series of tiny photos from the 1970s attached together to create a panorama of the river side in Sandwich.

Sepia toned photograph showing grass in the foreground with a river behind. There are boats on the river and behind it, a series of buildings. The main building is a large square, brick building with boarded up windows. Text on it reads “the Invicta Coal & Shipping Co.”

Colour photograph with a green tinge. There is grass in the foreground and a river, mostly hidden by the grass. On the other side of the river are trees and a series of buildings. The photograph is made from multiple photos attached together and one of the seams cuts off part of a building. A building on the right side reads “Globe Yacht” and “Slipway.”

Coloured photo with a green tinge. It shows grass, with a river behind. There are some boats on the river but only the tops of them are visible. There are buildings being the river, including rooftops of houses. On the right is a large building reading “Watneys, Ales & Stouts.”

Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · Apr 9

It's the Easter half term! If you're looking for something to do, don't forget the museum is open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm. You can visit the museum and 16th century courtroom. We also have clothes for children to get dressed up in and a space to colour in some Sandwich themed drawings!

Photograph of the end of a table, which has colouring worksheets on it. The top sheet shows a shield with a coat of arms, which has been coloured in. There is a pile of colouring pencils on top of the sheets. There is a plastic children's crown, which is red and gold towards the back of the table and a decorative, silver, plastic sword laying diagonally in front of it, on top of the sheets.

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