News Articles

July 2023
Unheralded women whose courage played crucial roles in the Second World War were brought to life in a talk at the Museum Friends’ shop.
Pete Batty’s fascinating insight into the women he dubbed Band of Sisters attracted an appreciative audience of Maidstone Museums’ Foundation (MMF) members and guests on July 6.

June 2023
There was a good turn out to this year’s AGM, held again in the Friends’ Shop.
There were excellent and informative reports from the Chairman, recounting the year’s efforts and achievements, and from the Treasurer, showing the organisation is in very good shape finance-wise.

May 2023
On 3rd May year 5 and 6 year students from local primary schools participated in the ‘Primary Speaks’ competition, organised and run by the MMF Youth Ambassadors.

The aim of the day was to encourage a range of young people to become involved and interested in the amazing local resources and collections that the Museum provides

May 2023
That Medway is flying high as a renowned specialist hub of vintage aircraft restoration was underlined by a fascinating talk at the MMF Museum Friends’ Shop on May 4, 2023. An audience of more than 20 heard Robin Heaps, an electronics engineer and director of Medway Aircraft Preservation Society

April 2023

The Museum is to be used every Friday for extended student access.

The Museum received 70 responses to the survey it undertook last month, into the demand from young people for this facility. The majority of these were very supportive.
As a result, the Museum will trial a project for three terms offering the library for homework.

April 2023
“The hop’s on the bine down Faversham Way and the Apple’s in fruit around Marden.”
Just a few words from a song written by Kentish folk stalwart Bob Kenward who performed it with John and Di Cullen at the MMF’s second annual folk concert in the Museum Friends’ Shop on April 6.