A much-anticipated new gallery at a town’s museum is set to open in just two weeks. The Lives in our Landscape Gallery at Maidstone Museum, which has cost nearly £640,000, will look back at the lives ...

If you are still lingering under the impression that museums are dank, dark, dusty places smelling of old paper, and full of wooden cabinets jam-packed with incomprehensible objects, think again. A ...

A Kent museum is calling on the community to contribute a display to its new gallery. Maidstone Museum opened its Oldham Gallery in July to explore the town's history from the Tudors to the 21st ...

The original structure is an ornate red brick Elizabethan manor that was built in 1561. The building has been a museum since 1858, and it now houses a collection of over 600,000 artifacts and ...

Experts in the U.K. were stunned recently when a tiny Egyptian mummy, long thought to be the remains of a hawk, was revealed to be a human baby. The ancient mummy, which is part of the Maidstone ...

What on earth is that goldy-looking thing in the middle of Maidstone, that supersized Benson & Hedges fag packet pretending to be a building? Ah, it must be one of those World-Class Places that the ...

If its back catalogue is anything to go by, you’d guess it must be fun to work at Hugh Broughton Architects. In recent years it has completed projects including the Halley VI Research Station in the ...

For one week only, Maidstone Bicentennial Museum will showcase hundreds of old postcards and greeting cards in its latest exhibit, Greetings from the Past. Launched Sunday, the exhibit features cards ...