Established | 1896 |
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Location | Birchington, Kent, CT7 United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51°22′1″N 1°18′51″E / 51.36694°N 1.31417°E |
Type | Natural history and anthropology museum |
Director | Catriona West |
Website | powell-cottonmuseum |
The Powell-Cotton Museum is situated in Quex Park, Birchington, Kent[1] and houses the diverse personal collections of hunter and explorer Percy Powell-Cotton. The museum also contains the collections of Powell-Cotton's two daughters, Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton, who shared their father's passion for collecting.
The museum, which links to the ground floor of Quex House, now comprises nine galleries dedicated not only to the extensive collection of large mammals, but to many artefacts representing the cultures and traditions of the locations Powell-Cotton visited.[2][3]