
Easter Monday 6th April 2026
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
Explore our collection of historic agricultural tools and machinery
UPCOMING EVENT! Harvest Festival on Sunday 27th September, for details click here
UPCOMING EVENT! Lecture on farming during the Black Death on Tuesday 22nd September, for details click here

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

Brook Rural Museum is delighted to announce that we are launching a new exhibition this year, examining the impact of the Second World War on food production. For February half

To commemorate 80 years since the end of the Second World War, this year Brook Rural Museum is working with our neighbour St Mary’s church, Brook, to host a special
Brook Rural Museum sits at the foot of the North Downs’ iconic Devil’s Kneading Trough and preserves over 700 years of history. Housed in a magnificent 14th-century grange barn and 19th-century oast house, the museum collects and exhibits the agricultural and rural history of East Kent. Our collections date from the 18th century and tell the story of farming and rural life in the Garden of England from the age of the horse through to the Industrial Revolution and beyond.
Warning! We have an active honey bee hive on site.
The museum and its historic buildings are owned and managed by the Wye Rural Museum Trust.
It's an Aladdin's cave of yesteryear from hopping and grain-growing to waggons and a beautifully preserved linen farmer's smock. Heritage Lottery funding is giving this museum a new lease of life with interesting events happening in 2023.
What a very interesting place to visit. My son and I had a very warm welcome from the volunteers. We particularly loved the Oast House, its lovely to see it still in it's original state. If you're in the area definitely pop in there.
Brilliant piece of history and evolution in agriculture... for enthusiasts who know what's happening vis-a-vis what it was.
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