Sittingbourne Heritage Museum – Sittingbourne Heritage Museum

Please note:

The Museum in East Street itself is closed to the public until circumstances allow us to open safely. We are open online for enquiries, research, sales, volunteering etc.

You’ll notice that we have moved our website to a new platform as of April 2021. Please bear with us until all our pages have been restored. You should be able to make payments or place orders – if not please email “secretary@sittingbourne-museum.co.uk”

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 Spring 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

Online Event:

"A Postcard view of Life in Edwardian England"

an Illustrated talk by Helen Allinson – by Zoom
May 6th 2021 at 7pm

If you would like to join this talk, please make contact by emailing “jointalk@sittingbourne-museum.co.uk”

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 hope to restore normal access in the coming days. 14/4/2021

Genealogists might be interested in requesting a search on any of our small databases. NEW to the site is a search of The Holy Trinity Church marriage register from 1864 to 1900. 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 ?

The Museum itself is now closed to the public until circumstances allow us to open safely. We are open online for enquiries, research, volunteering, sales etc.

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.