New exhibition open from today!
What people Wore
🧵This exhibition takes a look at clothing and accessories over the centuries with many examples on display along with artworks that show fashion from different eras.🪡
📍#Dover Museum's Special Exhibition Gallery on the middle floor. Free Entry.
This bank holiday weekend, 23rd-25th May come along to Maison Dieu #Dover's Stone Masonry festival:
➡See stone mason Carrie Horwood's progress on sculpting replicas of Deal Man
➡Suggest names for the Deal Man replicas
➡Make your very own clay Deal Man!
On Saturday 30th May, come to Dover Museum to make your own standing paper doll that you can dress up!
📅Saturday 30th May
🕙Drop in 10.00-3.00
📍#Dover Museum
Free craft activity
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery
(8/8) In an exciting addition to this, replicas are being carefully carved by stone mason Carrie Horwood using repurposed chalk from Dover so that these replicas can be loaned out to other places. Check out Carrie’s preparation work in her blog here www.catseyecarving.co.uk/2026/05/deal...
I have been commissioned by Dover Museum to carve a replica of a small Iron age sculpture, he was found during an Archaeological dig in Deal, Kent, during the 1980’s. Catherine, the Deal man&…
(5/8) The chamber in which Deal Man was found may possibly have been a shrine. There are parallels with other European discoveries to both to the pit and its chamber and the presence of figurines in pits which have been interpreted as used for rituals.
(7/8) Dover Museum is looking to get Deal Man conserved so that he remains well preserved for the future.
