Description
Minster Gatehouse Museum on the Isle of Sheppey has a number of displays of artefacts from local archaeological digs, art, and displays of everyday lives from Victorian times. It also houses a large selection of radios in its collection dating back to the early 20th Century, paintings by local artist Harold Batzer, and more. Its fossil collection endorses the fact that Sheppey is also famous as a ‘fossil island’ where Lower Eocene, 50 million-year-old fossil remains of marine animals can be found quite commonly. The fossils are unique to the London clay deposits and found nowhere else in the world. There is a hunt the nuns trail for little ones too.
Opening Hours
Saturday
2pm-4.30pm
Check website for additional dates.
Price
Adult: £2
Child - up to 18 years: £1
Concession: £1.50
Family - 2 adults + up to 3 children: £5
Accessibility
Due to the age of the building, the museum is not accessible for wheelchair users or buggies, but it has a state-of-the-art interactive touch screen system coming soon.
Picture Credit: © Minster Gatehouse Museum.
