Birchington

Powell-Cotton Museum

Quex House & Gardens,
Quex Park, Birchington, Kent CT7 0BH

Tel: 01843 842168

Admission:  Various admission charges apply. Please visit the website for further details.

Collections: The museum houses the PHG Powell-Cotton collection from his various expeditions to Africa and South-East Asia. There are extensive public and research collections dealing with Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Objects include: African ethnographic artefacts, local archaeology, cannon and firearms.

Services: Postcards, guides and other souvenirs on sale. In season only - demonstrations on various subjects as well as slide and film shows.

Website: www.quexmuseum.org
 

Brighton

Brighton Museum and Art Gallery

Royal Pavilion Gardens, Church Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1  1EE

Tel: 01273290900

Admission: Free

Collections: Ethnographic material from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and America, (including examples from the James Henry Green collection of textiles from Burma). There are also local and Egyptian archaeological collections, as well as displays on the local history of Brighton.

Services: There are slide packs and publications for sale. Keepers are available, by prior arrangement, for enquiries regarding the reserved collections.

Website: http://www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk/Museums/brightonmuseum/Pages/home.aspx

 

Hastings

Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

John's Place, Bohemia Road
Cambridge Road, Hastings TN34 1ET

Tel: 01424451052

Admission: Free.

Collections: The collection includes ethnographic material from the Pacific and North America, as well as local pre-historic and medieval archaeology.

Services: Teachers packs, publications on local history and worksheets available.

Website: www.hmag.org.uk
 

 

Maidstone

Maidstone Museums and Bentlif Art Gallery

St Faith's Street, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1LH

Tel:  01622 602838/9

Admission:
Free.

Collections:
Outstanding material from Oceania, and the Americas, archaeological artefacts from Kent, and art collections from Europe and Asia.

Website:
www.museum.maidstone.gov.uk/

 

Oxford

Pitt Rivers Museum

South Parks Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire
OX1 3PP, England

Tel: 01865 270927

Admission: Free

Collections: There is a wide range of archaeological and ethnographic objects from around the world, as well as an extensive photographic and sound archive collection.

Website: www.prm.ox.ac.uk