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Please note:

We will be opening the Museum in East Street to the public on each Saturday in August 2021 from 10 to 2pm.

We are also open online for enquiries, research, sales, volunteering etc.

Our AGM was held by Zoom on 29th June 2021 – please see “member information” for details.

During last year we worked on ways to bring access to our collection to members and the world at large. We have created our own Youtube channel and produced a number of videos to achieve this. For example: (click on the images and then use the back arrow on browser to return here)

New Book for 2021

Now available “The History of Sittingbourne Mill”

Originally published by M-Real to mark the closure of the paper mill in Sittingbourne, we thought this work by Steve Ralph and Richard Marsh now deserved to reach a new audience. We have republished the entire book in paperback form with the original text and colour illustrations. It contains 113 pages and over 100 illustrations by Steve Ralph and Richard Marsh (orig. 2007)

Price is £10.95 + p&p – please see our Shop page for details of how to order. We also have many other titles on local history.

Contact us

E: email – secretary@sittingbourne-museum.co.uk
T: 07472 268 388
find us on Facebook, Youtube and Instagram

For Volunteering opportunities – please visit our Volunteering page

Membership

Our “members” are our supporters, and our friends who support the idea of there being a museum in Sittingbourne to display, represent and educate in all matters related to the history of our town and area.

For our existing members, subscriptions, which help us to keep the museum running, are due now. Please help us to prepare for a post-virus Museum by paying your subscription online or by bank transfer. Go to our subscription renewal page for how to do this. Many thanks.

Please see our members information page to subscribe to or unsubscribe from our email list. See our Facebook page also for news, photographs and debate. We also now have a Youtube channel and will publish short video films here from time to time.

What's new on the website?

We have now restored all the pages from our old website – if you cannot find something – please do let us know. 9/6/2021

There is now a brief 360 degree virtual tour of the Museum – courtesy of the Swale Migration Project. See our “COLLECTION” pages.

For the casual browser there is some information related to the ship building industry of Milton Creek. There is also information related to the long gone cattle market that used to be held in the town.

Sittingbourne's Very Own Museum

Sittingbourne has had a museum since 1999 but still there are many people who either don’t know about it or where to find it. Located at 67 East Street, Sittingbourne Heritage Museum is split over two levels and several rooms. The museum houses many objects from Sittingbourne and the surrounding villages which have been donated or loaned by local residents and other museums. We are able to have regularly changing displays, as well as our more permanent features such as ‘The Plough‘ finds cabinet of late medieval items rescued from the demolished public house, which once stood opposite the museum.

But there is more to the museum than just displays. Behind the scenes, researchers are peering into the town’s past, and then producing highly respected books on various topics.. These books and many more are available on-line and in our small shop which forms an integral part of the museum.

Entry to the museum is free but why not support our museum by becoming a member and receive regular news and information about local history ?

Sittingbourne Heritage Museum is a founding and participating member of Historic Swale – a charity organisation whose aim it is to promote Swale as a heritage destination.