Quex House and Powell-Cotton Museum
BirchingtonA Regency country house in seven acres of gardens, home to a world-renowned museum of animal dioramas.
Get directionsMuseumTime here: 2–4 h
On the map
Silver Avenue, Birchington, CT7 0BH
Quick facts
The Powell-Cotton Museum was founded in 1896 by Percy Powell-Cotton and displays hundreds of African and Asian animals in natural-habitat dioramas.
The current house follows an 1816 design by Thomas Hardwick, on a site where a manor has stood since 1449.
The gardens cover about seven acres, with sweeping lawns, a Victorian walled garden and a woodland trail.
Address
Silver Avenue, Birchington, CT7 0BH
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