5 /5 Christopher Keeffe: A small museum on the first floor of what is/was the Tourist Information Centre.
The museum, modest cost c£5:00 (with concessions) tells an important aspect of the history of Rochester and nation.
The Huguenots fled persecution from Franch, during war of religion.
During the same period in history in England Elizabethan laws were applied by successive protestant monarch against English Catholics and other non-conformists.
For a small museum, it covers a lot of history and is very informative with artifacts from the period including a bible that was baked in a loaf of bread to hide it. A wonderful and detailed dolls house a small sculpture as well a other objects use in daily, religious and medical life including a bleeding pan.
The Hugonauts founded the French Protestant hospital further down the high street.
Currently below the museum is displayed one of the original HMV paintings of Nipper - His Masters Voice.


