Birchington
Powell-Cotton Museum
Quex House & Gardens,
Quex Park, Birchington, Kent CT7 0BH
Tel: 01843 842168
Admission: Various admission charges apply. Please visit the website for further details.
Collections: The museum houses the PHG Powell-Cotton collection from his various expeditions to Africa and South-East Asia. There are extensive public and research collections dealing with Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Objects include: African ethnographic artefacts, local archaeology, cannon and firearms.
Services: Postcards, guides and other souvenirs on sale. In season only – demonstrations on various subjects as well as slide and film shows.
Website: https://powell-cottonmuseum.org/
Brighton
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
Royal Pavilion Gardens, Church Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1EE
Tel: 01273290900
Admission: Free
Collections: Ethnographic material from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and America, (including examples from the James Henry Green collection of textiles from Burma). There are also local and Egyptian archaeological collections, as well as displays on the local history of Brighton.
Services: There are slide packs and publications for sale. Keepers are available, by prior arrangement, for enquiries regarding the reserved collections.
Website: https://www.travelbrighton.co.uk/rpml/museums/brighton-museum-art-gallery/
Hastings
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
John’s Place, Bohemia Road
Cambridge Road, Hastings TN34 1E
TTel: 01424451052
Admission: Free.
Collections: The collection includes ethnographic material from the Pacific and North America, as well as local pre-historic and medieval archaeology.
Services: Teachers packs, publications on local history and worksheets available.
Website:www.hmag.org.uk
Maidstone
Maidstone Museums and Bentlif Art Gallery
St Faith’s Street, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1LH
Tel: 01622 602838/9
Admission: Free.
Collections: Outstanding material from Oceania, and the Americas, archaeological artefacts from Kent, and art collections from Europe and Asia.
Website:www.museum.maidstone.gov.uk/
Oxford
Pitt Rivers Museum
South Parks Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire
OX1 3PP, England
Tel: 01865 270927
Admission: Free
Collections: There is a wide range of archaeological and ethnographic objects from around the world, as well as an extensive photographic and sound archive collection.
Website:www.prm.ox.ac.uk
