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Lovely video recap of our Victory 80 project, commemorating the 80th anniversary of VE and VJ Day. This was supported by a generous grant from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport via the Arts Council. Brook Rural Museum commemorated the anniversaries from an agricultural perspective, exploring the Dig For Victory Campaign and the impact […]
We’re delighted to announce that Brook Rural Museum has received initial support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for a project to protect the future of the museum which is housed in one of the finest medieval barns in Kent with an adjoining early 19th century oast house. Development funding of £218,000 has been awarded […]
Brook Rural Museum is open again for the summer season! Come and visit our beautiful museum nestled in the North Downs and discover over 700 years of history. New for 2026: Conservation Mondays! Visit us on a Monday afternoon and see our conservation volunteers in action restoring and preserving our unique collectionsRevamped displays in the […]
Brook Rural Museum is reopening for its summer season on Easter Monday 6th April 2026. To celebrate we’ll be hosting free children’s activities including seed planting and nature spotting, plus the barn and oast house will be open with our new ‘Dig for Victory’ exhibition. WHEN: Monday 6th April, 2pm-4pmWHERE: Brook Rural Museum, The Street, […]
Brook Rural Museum is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a £20,284 grant from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport via the Arts Council as part of the government’s ‘Victory 80 – Victory in Europe and Victory in Japan Commemoration’ programme. Brook Rural Museum will commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE and VJ […]
We’re delighted to announce our programme of events for 2025! We’re kicking things off with our special Easter Bunny Trail on 19th April and our always popular Medieval Fayre returns on 19th July, amongst a host of fun family events. Save the dates! More details to follow, sign up to our newsletter to be the […]
We have partnered with Ashford Community Lottery to help us raise funds to support our programme of events for 2025. For every £1 ticket purchased for the weekly draw, 50p goes to us, and there’s a top prize of £25,000 plus loads of other prizes. To play click here and make sure Brook Rural Museum […]
The following is adapted from Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh’s blogpost https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/kent-hop-picking-and-dovers-maison-dieu/ The ‘Local Stories: Memories of Hopping around Brook and Wye, Kent’ exhibition at the Templeman Library, University of Kent, was officially opened Friday 18th October. It is worth pointing out that even though today very few hop fields survive in Kent, John Hills as part of CCCU’s Sustainability team regularly […]
Brook Rural Museum has partnered with the University of Kent Special Collections & Archives to bring you this new exhibition, showcasing memories and stories about the hop industry around Wye in the 20th century, collected from oral history interviews with local people. Supported by Association of Independent Museums grant funded by The National Lottery Heritage […]
The below is a summary of Dr John Bulaitis’ talk ‘The Tithe War in England and Wales 1881-1936’, given at the Michael Nightingale lecture on 24 September 2024, and is adapted from Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh’s post on the Centre for Kent History and Heritage blog: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/the-tithe-war-kent-and-england/ John Bulaitis began his talk by thanking the many […]
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