The museum has collections and displays on themes of the natural world , local oyster trade , early diving and the actor , Peter Cushing , who lived locally , as well as displays on the 1953 floods , shipwrecks and maritime archaeology . The collections are held under the following headings : social history , science and technology , maritime , land transport , fine art , decorative and applied art , archives and archaeology
1953 floods
North Sea flood of 1953
Whitstable Museum and Gallery