Maidstone Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Maidstone, Kent
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 10am
🏠 Indoor
What’s there
- Paid parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Pay & display Fremlin Walk multi-storey car park opposite the museum; limited disabled parking (5 Blue Badge spaces, 3-hour limit) on Station Road along Brenchley Gardens.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Maidstone Museum holds over 600,000 items of international importance across collections dedicated to archaeology, costumes, ancient Egypt, ethnography, biology, fine art, geology, local history, and Japanese decorative arts and prints. The museum is housed in Chillington Manor, an Elizabethan mansion in Maidstone town centre. Within the main building is the Bentlif Art Gallery, featuring watercolour and oil paintings, and the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regimental Museum documenting the history of the local regiment. Separately, the Maidstone Carriage Museum holds more than 60 road carriages in the former stables of the Archbishop's Palace, including Queen Victoria's State Landau, antique sedan chairs, and Victorian 'growlers'. The museum runs temporary exhibitions, hands-on workshops for children, tours, talks, and Museum Late events.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Hand sanitiser
- Bum bag
- Colouring book and pencils
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Notebook
- Plasters
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