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Whitstable Community Museum and Gallery

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Small volunteer-run museum of Whitstable's diving, fishing, shipbuilding and oyster history, with a whelk boat, the Invicta locomotive and hands-on activities.

About Whitstable Community Museum and Gallery

A volunteer-run charity museum in Foresters’ Hall telling Whitstable’s story: diving, fishing, shipwrecks, shipbuilding and oysters. Displays include a preserved whelk boat and Stephenson’s locomotive Invicta, and there are hands-on activities for children. Concessions are £3 for over-60s. Entry is free for students with a card, under-19s and local residents (CT1 to CT6). It opens more days in school holidays; extra dates are announced on Facebook.

Accessibility

One floor level, but the main entrance is up two low steps; wheelchair access at pavement level to one side of the main entrance.

Where it is

Details checked against the venue on 29 October 2026. Opening times change, so confirm before you travel.

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