Herne Bay Museum and Gallery
The Seaside Museum Herne Bay is a local museum in Herne Bay, Kent, England. It was established in 1932, and is notable for being a seaside tourist attraction featuring local archaeological and social history, for featuring the history of the town as a tourist resort, for its local art exhibitions and for its World War II bouncing bomb.Photo: Storye book, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: local history museum in Herne Bay, Kent, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Herne Bay Museum”, “Herne Bay Museum & Gallery”, “Herne Bay Museum Centre”, “Seaside Museum”, “Seaside Museum Herne Bay”, “The Seaside Museum”, and “The Seaside Museum Herne Bay”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Clock Tower and Christ Church.
Clock Tower
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Clock Tower, Herne Bay, is a Grade II listed landmark in Herne Bay, Kent, England. It is believed to be one of the earliest purpose-built, free-standing clock towers in the United Kingdom. Clock Tower is situated 490 feet northwest of Herne Bay Museum and Gallery.
Christ Church
Church
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Christ Church is situated 730 feet south of Herne Bay Museum and Gallery.
King’s Hall
Theater building
Photo: Storye book, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The King's Hall is a theatre, concert hall and dance hall at Herne Bay, Kent, England. It was built as The Pavilion in 1903–1904, developed as the King Edward VII Memorial Hall in 1913 in memory of the late king, and was being called The King's Hall by 1912 while still at planning stage. King’s Hall is situated 1,900 feet east of Herne Bay Museum and Gallery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Herne Bay and Eddington.
Herne Bay
Town
Photo: John Fielding, CC BY 2.0.
Herne Bay is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in South East England. It is 6 miles north of Canterbury and 4 miles east of Whitstable. It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne and Reculver and is part of the City of Canterbury local government district, although it remains a separate town with countryside between it and Canterbury.
Eddington
Suburb
Photo: Storye book, CC BY 3.0.
Eddington was a village in Kent, South East England to the south-east of Herne Bay, to the west of Beltinge and to the north of Herne. It is now a suburb of Herne Bay, in Greenhill and Eddington Ward, one of the five wards of Herne Bay.
Hampton
Suburb
Hampton-on-Sea is a drowned and abandoned village in what is now the Hampton area of Herne Bay, Kent. It grew from a tiny fishing hamlet in 1864 at the hands of an oyster fishery company, was developed from 1879 by land agents, abandoned in 1916 and finally drowned due to coastal erosion by 1921.
Herne Bay Museum and Gallery
- Categories: art museum, local museum, independent museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.37236° or 51° 22′ 21″ northLongitude
1.12829° or 1° 7′ 42″ eastOpen location code
9F3394CH+W8OpenStreetMap ID
way 646609680OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q5742330
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In Other Languages
“Herne Bay Museum and Gallery” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “متحف ومعرض هيرن باى”
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Highlights include Herne Bay Fire Station and Herne Bay Market.
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