Geology
The remains of some of the incredible creatures that lived and died in Kent over the last 145 million years are on show in our Earth Heritage Gallery.
This explains how local sedimentary rocks such as Weald Clay and Kentish Ragstone were formed and how the local scene was transformed over and over again.
Our collections of rocks and minerals are comprehensive and our superb fossil collection reflects the importance of Maidstone to the history of palaeontology (the study of fossils). It was in a local quarry that the world’s first articulated bird-hip dinosaur was found in 1834. That dinosaur, the Maidstone Iguanodon, is incorporated in the town’s coat-of-arms.
