The museum's collection comprises artefacts relating to the Borough of Ashford and its people.

The collection is represented by a number of displays including:

• A pre-historic collection starting with a 200 million year old dinosaur leg bone found in 2001 at Washford farm.
• Artefacts from the Neolithic, Romano- Briton and Anglo-Saxon periods.
• The First World War having a central feature of ‘Life in the Trenches‘, and photos of some who never returned.
• World War Two including information on the Prisoner of War camps within the Borough.
• An excellent display on the lost businesses of Ashford showing items and photos of those firms.

• Medical instruments from the old Ashford and cottage hospitals.
• Railway memorabilia including artefacts from the railway and works, photographs and two model railways to recall the important role that railways played in the towns history.
• Ashford Market, one of the oldest in the country, started in the 13^th century by Royal charter.
• The military history of the town.
• Smuggling and the lives and demise of the ‘Aldington Gang’.