Quex Museum, House & Gardens

Quex Park
Park Lane
Birchington
Kent
CT7 0BH
England

Website

www.quexmuseum.org

Telephone

01843 842 168

Fax

01843 846 661

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Quex Museum, House and Gardens
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Museum created by PHG Powell-Cotton (1866-1940) housing his collections from 25 expeditions to Africa and 5 trips to SE Asia between 1889 and 1939 (26 years actually on African soil). Three galleries of amazing animal diorama displays - the finest in this country - depicting more than 250 African and Asian mammals against their natural habitats. A further five large galleries displaying a vast collection of African ethnographic artefacts, European firearms, European and Asian cutting weopons, European porcelain and Chinese export and imperial porcelain, and important archaeological finds from Thanet and East Kent. Six public rooms in the Regency House showing Oriental and English period furniture, English and Dutch glass and a small collection of clocks.

Venue type

Museum

 Opening hours

Mid March - end of October. Sun - Thurs 11.00-17.00 (House opens 14.00-16.30)
November - mid March. Museum & Gardens only. Sun (except Christmas period) 13.00-15.30

Closed: Fridays and Saturdays for receptions and events.

 Admission charges

SUMMER: Adult £5.00
Under 16/Concession £4.00
Under 5 free
Family £14.00
Gardens only £1.50; under 16/Concession £1
WINTER: Adult £4.00
Under 16/Concession £3.00
Under 5 free
Friends of Quex free entry to the museum house and gardens and Friends events

Discounts

  • Museums Association
 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
  • Guided tours
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Cafeteria
  • Gardens open to public
  • Parking for coaches
  • Picnic area
  • Refreshments
  • Restaurant
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
  • Wheelchairs available for loan
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
  • Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Loan service
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Library
  • Library with public access
  • Research facilities for academics
  • Study facilities
 Commercial and hire services
  • Licensed for weddings
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

Additional info

Free car and coach parking

Quex Park
Park Lane
Birchington
Kent
CT7 0BH
England

Website

www.quexmuseum.org

Telephone

01843 842 168

Fax

01843 846 661

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Internationally important collections of African and Asian mammals including many Type Specimens, especially higher primate skeletal, and ethnography; weapons - firearms, cutting weapons and cannon; decorative arts from Britain, Europe, S.E. Asia and the Far East; archaeology from East Kent; photographic and film collection of African zoology and culture; fine collection of African and Asian travel and hunting books; archival material relating to Rowland Ward's taxidermy and extensive supporting evidence for the collections.

Collection details

Archaeology, Archives, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Film and Media, Fine Art, Maritime, Music, Natural Sciences, Photography, Religion, Social History, Weapons and War, World Cultures

Key artists and exhibits

  • Diorama
  • African explorer
  • Kashmir
  • Ladak
  • African mammals
  • Congo
  • Ovambo
  • Kyanyama
  • Zande
  • Angola
  • Namibia
  • Sudan
  • Uganda
  • Congo
  • Nile
  • Abyssinia
  • Chinese Imperial Porcelain
  • Cannon
  • Royal George
  • John Deane
  • Diving History
  • Congreve clock
  • Powell-Cotton
  • East India Company
  • African Ethnography
  • Netsuke; 1930 film
  • glassplate photography
  • Taxidermy
  • zoology
  • weapons
  • sword
  • rifle
  • natural history
  • Rowland Ward
  • Giant Sable
  • Edward Gerrard

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available
  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Public access available to collections information
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Quex Park
Park Lane
Birchington
Kent
CT7 0BH
England

Website

www.quexmuseum.org

Telephone

01843 842 168

Fax

01843 846 661

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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