EKMT News &
Announcments
On this page you can find announcements and items of interest from the EKMT, including a ‘heads-up’ on events happening in our museums.

For more detail on events visit the Special Events page, and for archived news and announcements go here.
No Bank Holiday Coverage
The EKMT regret to announce that, due to staff shortages, it will not be possible to open our museums on Bank Holiday Monday, May 5th. We apologise for this lack of coverage, which caused by circumstances beyond our control.

One Day Closure: 20th April
Due to unfortunate staff and volunteer shortages the Ramsgate Maritime Museum will not be open on Sunday April 20th. This alteration of normal opening hours applies only for the one day and the Museum will otherwise continue to follow it’s traditional summer opening times of 10am till 5pm, Tuesday to Sunday.

Stirling Castle Gun Returns to Maritime Museumpp92abcb76.jpg
On Wednesday 19th March the Demi-Cannon raised from the wreck of the Stirling Castle returned to Ramsgate Maritime Museum at the end of the conservation process. The barrel, which weighs almost two-and-a-half tonnes, has spent the last sixteen months in the laboratories of Mary Rose Archaeological Services and will now return to the Museum’s Gun Room. Further items, including wadding and even a sample of gunpowder recovered from the barrel during conservation, will shortly be joining it on display while the carriage recovered along with the cannon will return to the museum towards the end of the year.

Archived news and announcements can be found here.