Dover Transport Museum

A fascinating museum of transport with nationally important collections including Norman motorcycles, vintage buses, a fully restored Romany caravan and a wealth of transport and social history memorabilia.

Attraction Dover

Where

Willingdon Road
Whitfield
Dover
CT16 2JX

What3words location

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Useful info

  • Family-friendly
  • Coach parties welcome
  • Coach parking available
  • Food and drink on site
  • On-site parking (charges may apply)
  • Visitor toilet/s
  • Season ticket/membership available
  • Blue badge/ accessible parking bay/s
  • Wheelchair user friendly
  • Dog-friendly

Admission

Admission fees

Contact

Located just outside Dover, the Transport Museum is home to many forms of vintage transport and vintage shop fronts with a fascinating collection of items from the past century. It is run by volunteers who are passionate about the memorabilia and historic items in their care.

Opening times

Wednesdays and Sundays and Bank Holidays throughout the year excluding Christmas.

Autumn/winter - 10.30am to 3.30pm (latest entry time 2.30pm)

Spring/summer - 10.30am to 4.30pm (latest entry 3.30pm)

  • The museum will be closed from 15 December 2025 to 15 February 2026 for winter maintenance.
  • Please note that due to a programme of building works the full collection of Norman Motorbikes will NOT be available for viewing until the museum reopens in 2026.

A full cafe service is usually available on each of the open days.

All full price entry tickets are valid for a whole year, so you can return as many times as you like at no extra cost.

The museum's main attractions

  • Norman motorcycle collection - Pursey’s Motorcycle Shop in the museum’s main hall holds a nationally significant collection.
  • Maritime Collection - see Dover’s remarkable history in the development of train and car ferries.
  • Historic vehicles *
  • A large visitor-operated model railway
  • Model railways
  • 5″ gauge railway
  • Bygone street scenes
  • Model cars
  • Romany life display
  • Channel tunnel memorabilia
  • Not all vehicles in the collection may be on display at the time of your visit.

Throughout the museum old-fashioned shop fronts display fascinating items of social history from the past 100 years – from cameras to wireless sets, from boots to kitchenware.

Outside, there is a newly-restored St Thomas 0-6-0 Saddle Tank Engine from Snowdown Colliery, perfect for young Thomas the Tank Engine fans.  A new mini railway is operated during good weather and the restored vintage machinery in Arter’s Workshop is operated during opening hours.  The WWII Anderson Shelter is always open.

  • Two rows of vintage motorbikes
    The museum houses a nationally important collection of Norman motorcycles.
  • An old blue and white police car in a large warehouse gallery.
    How police cars once looked!
  • A corner street scene with motorbike, lamppost and shop fronts
    There are several vintage street scenes in the museum.
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