Museums · South East England
Crab Museum
Crab Museum — museum in Margate, Thanet, Kent, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
- Nearest railway station
- Margate · 0.9 km
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Crab Museum is a museum in the United Kingdom. Address: CT9 1EW. Wikidata describes it as: "museum in Margate, Thanet, Kent, England, UK". Coordinates: 51.3899°, 1.3820°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Thanet Coast SSSI
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Kent Downs
- Ramsar wetland: Thanet Coast & Sandwich Bay
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
The Crab Museum is a small idiosyncratic museum in Margate, Kent, England. Billed as "Europe’s first and only museum dedicated to the decapod", it was founded in 2021 by Chase Coley, Bertie Suesat-Williams, and Ned Suesat-Williams. It is located in the upstairs floor of the Pie Factory building on Broad Street in Margate Old Town. The lower floor operates as Pie Factory Gallery.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
Description
None of the Crab Museum's founders had any crab or museum backgrounds, and they opened without a collection of artefacts. They ultimately landed on crabs because of the "many directions that a crab can take you. You can use crabs to talk about everything from global politics to fidget spinners". Visitors increased from about 20,000 in 2022 to about 80,000 in 2023. It is set to undergo expansion in 2025 with a new roof garden. The Crab Museum were given a 150-million-year-old fossil of a shrimp as its first artefact. In 2023, the founders said they were taking courses on preservation, in part to enable streams of government funding.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.3899, 1.3820
- County
- Kent
- District
- Thanet
- Parish
- Thanet, unparished area
- Postcode
- CT9 1EW
- Parliamentary constituency
- East Thanet
- Established
- 2021
- Nearest railway station
- Margate — 0.9 km
- Official site
- www.crabmuseum.org
Sources
- wikidata: Q113446949 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Crab Museum (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Crab Museum?
- Crab Museum is in Kent, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode CT9 1EW), in the parish of Thanet, unparished area.
- When was Crab Museum built?
- Built or established in 2021.
- Is Crab Museum a protected site?
- Yes — Crab Museum is part of the Thanet Coast SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Kent Downs National Landscape (AONB).
- Is Crab Museum free to visit?
- Yes, Crab Museum is free to enter.
- How do I get to Crab Museum?
- The nearest railway station is Margate, about 0.9 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode CT9 1EW.