A charming, quirky, educational little museum clearly run by people with a wonderful sense of humour who feel passionately about our crustaceous friends and the environment. Alongside the witty exhibits and displays (including the laugh out loud one in the loo) we were treated to a fun, interactive microscope show of various hairy, crusty, bug eyed creatures and all for FREE! Yes, there are some messages about the impact of capitalism on our climate but frankly, anyone who is offended by those are the ones most in need of visiting this place… Go and visit (and join/buy some stuff on the way out!)

Equal parts hilarious, eccentric and informative! I learned more about crabs than I ever knew I wanted to, but it was presented in a really engaging and enjoyable way. The gentleman that talked us through the sciencey bits is clearly extremely knowledgeable and passionate, but also a joy to listen to! It was one of our favourite parts of our weekend in Margate!

We were delighted, surprised, enlightened, amused and heartened by this wonderful and passionate mini museum. At turns humorous, serious, playful and incisive, staffed by extremely knowledgeable and friendly people. What a wonderful experience, please do support it, more museums should be like this!

I love crabs*, and I love The Social Construction of Reality by Berger and Luckmann, so you can imagine how excited I was when I discovered this museum! Not only that, but whoever is responsible for the information panels is hilarious. And, as an added bonus, gammons seem to hate the place. A perfect way to spend an hour or two, and well worth the £4 donation. *Actually, it turns out my favourite crab — the horseshoe crab — is actually a spider!

I absolutely LOVED our visit to the Crab Museum. It was full of interesting facts, hilarious and charming illustrations, curious tales and even some fibs to make sure you're really paying attention. The team there are amazing, insanely educated and SO passionate about all things crab. Chase did not fail to make us laugh out loud and teach us so many things about the wonderful word of crabs. I would 100% recommend. Please go. It's free and it's SO worth it. It's important we support one-of-a-kind and quirky establishments like this so please, please visit if you are in Margate and fancy a funny, informative and silly afternoon. Stay clawesome my fellow crab enthusiasts 🦀😍

Great fun and best of all it's staffed by friendly, fun folk. A great little museum with all sorts of information about crabs. Not the dull and boring stuff but fun facts, humorous stories and great visuals. The two staff that were present when we went would have talked to our eight year old all day and I'm sure that he would have found them as interesting as I did. Only opens Friday to Sunday at the moment so make the effort, it's well worth it.

This was an informative, interesting and funny museum. Or you could want to know about crabs from the beginning of time, almost to the end of it. One thing it doesn't have are any actual live crabs. You might think that as a bit of a let down, but in practice, it was all part of the humor of the place. Free to enter and some lovely quirky things in the gift shop.

Crabs! Magnificent Crabs! Beautiful Crabs! If you like crabs & the odd bit of decapod misinformation and don't like the patriarchy, colonialism or capitalism this is the museum for you! Me and my wife decided on a holiday spot because we were drawn to the social media and hype over the Margate Crab Museum, and it lived up to and exceeded every hope and dream we had. We laughed We cried We laughed We learnt Bravo bravo you crabby wonders. We loved it!

highlight of our day trip to margate! went in with low expectations as we didn’t know what it would be like but were very pleasantly surprised! displays are informative and funny (especially if you like crab puns). gift shop items were so unique which i loved. the staff were so friendly and answered and encouraged questions about the exhibit and crabs in general. you can tell the staff are really passionate about it which is lovely