Crab Museum

The Crab Museum is a small idiosyncratic museum in Margate, Kent, England. Billed as "Europe’s first and only museum dedicated to the decapod", it was founded in 2021 by Chase Coley, Bertie Suesat-Williams, and Ned Suesat-Williams.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Margate, Thanet, Kent, England, UK
  • Address: 9 Broad Street, Margate, CT9 1EW

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tudor House and Droit House.

Museum
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is a museum, which is situated 510 feet east of Crab Museum.

Tourism office
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The is a Grade II listed building and former customs house in that was redesigned by William Edmunds. It was originally built in 1812 and rebuilt in 1828–30. It was destroyed during the Second World War but was rebuilt in 1947. is situated 520 feet north of Crab Museum.

Church
Photo: John H Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated 590 feet south of Crab Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Margate and Cliftonville.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a seaside resort on the north coast, with a population in 2021 of more than 64,000. It's suffered the usual decline of English seaside towns but its beach is still thronged on warm summer weekends, and there are several places of interest for cold wet days.

Suburb
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is a coastal area of in the Thanet district of , . It includes the Palm Bay estate, built in the 1930s with wide avenues and detached and semi-detached houses with driveways, garages and gardens.

Suburb
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is a Victorian seaside resort on the Thanet peninsula in the southeast corner of England. It is the westernmost part of and is part of the ribbon development of the north coast. lies to the west.

Crab Museum

Latitude
51.38986° or 51° 23′ 24″ north
Longitude
1.38203° or 1° 22′ 55″ east
Open location code
9F3399QJ+WR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10815463402
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q113446949
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In Other Languages

“Crab Museum” goes by many names.
  • Hausa: “Gidan Tarihin Crab”

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Highlights include Pie Factory Margate and Gallery 7.

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