Introduction to our Museum Collections
The Historic Dockyard, Chatham is a fully accredited museum and partner in Renaissance South East, the South East Museum hub.
We collect, preserve, study and exhibit objects and material connected with the history of:
- The people who worked in, or were associated with, Chatham Dockyard
- The development of Royal Navy warship design and construction
- The Royal Navy’s use of the River Medway and its role in the development of the Medway area
The online Collections Gallery has a guide to our principal collections and further details of what we collect are contained in our Collecting Policy.