Supporting Our Heritage

Maidstone Museums' Friends

Run by Maidstone Museums' Foundation (MMF), Registered Charity No. 802547

President – VICTORIA WALLACE DL

Maidstone Museums’ Friends are part of a charitable, independent organisation set up to lead people’s appreciation of and support for these Museums – their buildings, collections, displays and interpretation, educational activity, research and much more. This is achieved through co-ordinated voluntary effort.

Latest News

Promoting Kent for more than a Century

November 2024

Ten illustrious founders of the Association of Men of Kent and Kentishmen (AMKKM) met in a London hotel in December 1897 to launch an organisation that would go on to promote and love the county for more than 125 years. It spawned branches across Kent and attracted many Establishment figures, including Lord-Lieutenants and other influencers

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MMF Talk – The Battle of Kohima

October 2024

Many will know the Kohima Epitaph heard at Remembrance events on and around November 11. “When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today.”

Fewer may know why it is called Kohima and that Kohima, along with Imphal, was a critical battle in India that proved a turning point in the war with Japan.

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