Chiltern Open Air Museum's 45 acre countryside site provides a warm, friendly and welcoming environment for any group. Recall days gone by with a relaxing stroll around the Museum, stopping in at the various historic buildings nestled within the parkland and woodland. There are also many seats placed around the Museum where you can site and enjoy the views. Then take a break for a refreshing light lunch or tea at our wonderful Wood End Cafe.

By pre-booking your visit with friends or family you can enjoy a day at the Museum to its fullest! Activities, demonstrations or a guided tour can all be arranged for your group, or just avoid the queues at one of our living history re-enactment events (group booking rates are not available for Halloween). We can also provide some additional catering for your group.

*excludes those with free entry, including Friends of Chiltern Open Air Museum and all bookings must be made at least 3 working days before your visit.

Group visit charges are different from Museum Admission and are VAT free.

All visits include access to the Museum site and buildings, woodland walk, adventure playground, picnic areas (including pre-bookable undercover areas), shop and cafe.

Pre-book your group visit to the Museum for 10 or more people Monday to Friday between April and October 2010 for only £3.50 per person!

Chiltern Open Air Museum's 45 acre countryside site provides a warm, friendly and welcoming environment for any group. With exclusive access to the Museum on a warm summer's evening (from 5.00 pm until 9.00pm) your visit will be even more special.

Recall days gone by with a relaxing stroll around the Museum, stopping in at the various historic buildings nestled within the parkland and woodland. There are also many seats to sit around the Museum where you can quietly sit and enjoy the views.

This service is available from June until September and by pre-booking (7 days notice required) only. To enhance your visit we have a selection of activities, demonstrations or a guided tour, as well as additional catering, which can be arranged for your group.

Group visit charges are different from Museum Admission and are VAT free.

All visits include access to the Museum site and buildings, woodland walk, adventure playground, picnic areas (including pre-bookable undercover areas). The Museum shop and the cafe are available by pre-arrangement.

Chiltern Open Air Museum provides an enjoyable and inclusive day out for children and young people of all ages and abilities where everyone will learn something new. Our 45 acre countryside site contains over 30 historic buildings, furnished as homes and places of work, and allows children the freedom to explore the past through visual and hands-on experiences, as well as providing the space to run around, have fun and hold a picnic.

Our fun pre-bookable activities promote sharing, the use of tools, team work and creativity and once booked are only for your group! Alternatively, take part in our Hands-on Holidays programme or visit us during one of our living history re-enactment events (group booking rates are not available for the Country Fair, or Halloween).

*excludes those with free entry, including Friends of Chiltern Open Air Museum and all bookings must be made at least 3 working days before your visit.

Group visit charges are different from Museum Admission and are VAT free.

All visits include access to the Museum site and buildings, woodland walk, adventure playground, picnic areas (including pre-bookable undercover areas), shop and cafe.

Are you looking for an alternative venue for your child's birthday party? Chiltern Open Air Museum offers an inclusive birthday package:

• A party bag for each child
• A picnic lunch/tea for each child
• A 'traditional toys and games' activity workshop led by a Museum Teacher
• An additional activity workshop of your choice led by a Museum Teacher
• Access to the adventure playground and Museum

Birthday parties take a minimum of 3 hours and are available throughout the 2010 season

* Friends of Chiltern Open Air Museum membership (and other discounted admission offers) is not valid for this special type of group visit.

Group visit charges are different from Museum Admission and are VAT free

All visits include access to the Museum site and buildings, woodland walk, adventure playground, picnic areas (including pre-bookable undercover areas), shop and cafe

Experience a traditional washday and find out how people coped without a washing machine.

[Hands-on experience for all].

Try your hand at making butter the Victorian way in our Victorian farmyard.

[Hands-on experience for all].

Find out more about different structures and materials used in buildings and, as a group, raise your own cruck frame barn.

[Hands-on experience for all].

Where did food come from before supermarkets? Learn more about the staple diets of the working family and the highs and lows of cooking over an open fire.

[Hands-on experience for all].

Discover the different means and materials used for lighting homes in the past, using modern reconstructions and artefacts. Choose between making a beeswax candle or a Roman lamp that all your group members can take home with them.

[Hands-on experience for all].

Learn why cottagers made and used rag rugs in the past and find out about the craft of rag rug making, spanning 100 years.

[Hands-on experience for all].

Find out more about different structures and materials used in buildings and in small groups, create a shelter for you and your friends using only the materials found in the woods.

[Hands-on experience for all].

Find out more about different structures and materials used in buildings and make your own brick. Then discover the social importance of brick making throughout history from Medieval to modern times and understand the role of children in the brickyards.

[Hands-on experience for all].

Find out about toys from the past through play. Then try your hand at making your own toy to take home.

[Hands-on experience for all].

Find out more about different structures and materials used in buildings and try your hand at daubing, a material which was in use from the Iron Age to the nineteenth century, when factory produced materials became widely available.

[Hands-on experience for all].

Discover the many items that local craftsmen can make from wood and, as a group, assemble a traditional Windsor chair.

[Hands-on experience for all].