Maidstone Museum
Maidstone Museum is a local authority-run museum located in Maidstone, Kent, England, featuring internationally important collections including fine art, natural history, and human history.Photo: Storye book, CC BY 3.0.
- Opening hours: Wednesday—Saturday 10:00 AM—4:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: regional museum, regimental museum, art gallery, heritage center, historic house museum in Kent, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery”, “Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery”, and “Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery”
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum and Maidstone East railway station.
The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum
Museum
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum is the regimental museum of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. It is an independent museum located inside the Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery, located in St Faith's Street in Maidstone, England.
Maidstone East railway station
Railway station
Photo: Hassocks5489, Public domain.
Maidstone East is one of three railway stations in the town of Maidstone, in Kent, England, but currently the only one with a regular all-day direct service to London. Maidstone East railway station is situated 590 feet north of Maidstone Museum.
Hazlitt Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Chris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Hazlitt Theatre and Exchange Studio, also known as the Hazlitt Arts Centre, is a theatre complex in Earl Street in Maidstone, Kent, England. The oldest part of the complex, which is now used as a shopping complex on the ground floor, and as a theatre venue known as the "Exchange Studio" on the first floor, is a Grade II listed building. Hazlitt Theatre is situated 570 feet south of Maidstone Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ringlestone and Penenden Heath.
Ringlestone
Suburb
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ringlestone is a suburb and housing estate in the town of Maidstone, Kent, England. It is on the eastern side of the River Medway, near Allington, 1.2 miles north of Maidstone town centre.
Penenden Heath
Village
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penenden Heath is a suburb of the town of Maidstone in the English county of Kent. As the name suggests, it was developed on an area of heathland, an area of which remains as a recreation ground with some woodland.
Allington
Suburb
Photo: ClemRutter, CC BY 2.5.
Allington is an almost entirely modern village situated alongside the sides of the A20 road north-west of Maidstone in Kent, England. It is part of the built-up area of Maidstone.
Maidstone Museum
- Categories: natural history museum, local museum, art museum, local authority museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Maidstone, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.27606° or 51° 16′ 34″ northLongitude
0.52059° or 0° 31′ 14″ eastOpen location code
9F327GGC+C6OpenStreetMap ID
way 252113538OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedWikidata ID
Q6735528
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In Other Languages
From French to Slovenian—“Maidstone Museum” goes by many names.
- French: “Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery”
- German: “Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery”
- Slovenian: “Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery”
- Slovenian: “Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery”
- Slovenian: “Muzej Maidstone in umetniška galerija Bentlif”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Faith’s Maidstone and The Royal Albion Inn.
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