Join in the fun as you meet our Medieval knights, ladies and peasants in their multi-coloured camp as they demonstrate medieval life. Throughout the day they will display Medieval Dance, Dressing-A-Lady, Arming-A-Knight, Archery, A Mess of Manners (medieval banqueting display), and our Grand Tourney (times to be confirmed).

Friday - Visit the medieval stalls to find out more about cooking, tailouring & embroidery and many other everyday tasks as you talk to our re-enactors.

Saturday – Monday - Join in the fun as you meet our Medieval knights, ladies and peasants in their multi-coloured camp as they demonstrate medieval life. Throughout the day you will be able to talk to the re-enactors to find out more about how people lived in medieval times. You may also be invited to join the dancing & merriment during your visit.  Plus there will be the following demonstrations:

Midday: A Mess of Manners – discover how you should lay the table and behave when eating at the table

2.00 pm: Longbow vs Crossbow – watch as the archers show you the might of the English bow and try to settle the argument between which type of bow is better

4.00 pm: The Tourney commences

Join the scavenger hunt to win your Easter egg over the Easter weekend.

Visit the crafts people as they display their local wares at our small craft fair set in our beautiful historic buildings. Craft stalls expected over the weekend include local foods such as preserves, delicious traditional fudge and sweets, jewellery, turned wooded gifts, clothes, locally grown herbs and even a magician's stall! Have your portrait painted by a local characturist and bring the family to try out a couple of visiting Victorian traditional fairground rides.

Over the weekend local artists and artists in residence from the Misbourne Art Society will be exhibiting and selling their work, alongside a local photographer at the show in Northolt Barn - come along and view their masterpieces and try out some sketching techniques for yourselves!

Find out about Vikings and Saxon life from the Dark Ages Society re-enactors in Arborfield Barn and watch their combat training sessions at 12.00 pm and 3.00 pm (Saturday only).

Come along and join in with our popular 5K Run along picturesque farm track and through woodlands, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Light refreshments available to purchase throughout the day. Souvenir T-Shirts will be on sale.

The Run categories are:

5km Run: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Men/Ladies.

The Museum is grateful to the following generous sponsors of this event:
Clancy Docwra

Visit the living quarters of the Norman soldiers in the Museum fields and find out about Norman warfare techniques including archery demonstrations, opportunities to explore Norman armour and weapons and the amazing opportunity to see their medieval siege engine in action!

Saturday 5 May

11.30 am	Medieval Combat Demonstrations
12.30 pm	Medieval Combat Demonstrations
1.30 pm	Medieval Combat Demonstrations
2.30 pm	Norman Combat Demonstrations

Please note that we regret that there will NOT be a Siege Engine demonstration today.

Sunday 6 May & Monday 7 May
Living history camp open 10.00 am - 5.00 pm

12:00 pm	Archery demonstration
2.00 pm	Norman combat demonstration
3.00 pm	Norman Siege Engine in action

As part of the Museums at Night Campaign in May, the Museum offers a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the magic and mystery of seeing our historic buildings and Chilterns Landscape in the dark!

DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR TORCH!

Admission Prices : 2 for 1 (cheapest goes free)
Friends : Free of Charge to Village Green

Village Geen

Historic buildings on the Museum Village Green will be open for visitors to explore or to take part in activities. 6.30 pm – 10.00 pm Northolt Barn – family activities building model barns and houses. Thame Vicarage Room - Candle Making (small additional charges apply) Skippings Barn - Traditional lantern making Leagrave Cottage 1820s and 1920s bedrooms open RAF Briefing Room open Henton Mission Room open 1940s recorded music in the Prefab Traditional Lambing Fold and lambs

Village Green Kiosk

6.30 pm – 10.00 pm Take away hot drinks and snacks, warming cup of soup, tea, coffee and hot chocolate, premium beers and cold soft drinks, crisps, cake, warmed sausage rolls and ice creams

Torch Light Tours

8.30 – 9.30 pm 9.00 pm – 10.00 pm Additional charge : £3 per Adult & Friends and £2.00 per Child Only 30 tickets available!

Join one of our experienced tour guides for a walk in the dark to visit our historic buildings below the Village Green area (these buildings will not be accessible on the night without a tour guide). See our medieval barn from Arborfield by torch light, visit the Toll Keeper and walk in the footsteps of the Downton Abbey stars by visiting the real Downton Abbey farm! Tickets available from the Visitor Information Centre on the night, on a first come/first served basis.

Join us for a family jubilee fayre celebrating Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. Our Victorian Village will come alive with a rare visit from Queen Victoria, Victorian games on the village green for visitors to try, extraordinary Victorian Explorers (Sunday to Tuesday Only) and some Victorian Soldiers to defend her majesty.

If you like dressing up and posing for photographs, then come along and find out about Edwardian cameras and picture photography in the Edwardian era.

A host of working horses from the Hertfordshire Heavy Horse Association visit the Museum today to demonstrate the essential role of heavy horses in the traditional rural landscape.

Meet the Shires, Clydesdales, Suffolk Punches and other heavy horse breeds at this spectacular show. These beautiful horses will be shown at their best in the arena events and they will also demonstrate some of their traditional farm work from pulling wagons and ploughs to cutting our hay around the site.

Arena Events
12.00 pm and 3.00 pm

In association with the Hertfordshire Heavy Horse Association (www.hhha.co.uk)

Displays and demonstrations are subject to the weather and as such may be liable to change.

Normal Museum admission prices apply.

In addition, all the Museum's buildings will be open to visitors.

Tesco Club Card and O2 vouchers not valid at this event

Visit the medieval camp and find out what the ladies are making for their medieval midday meal. Working hard over the fire, they recreate menus from the Middle Ages such as 'Urchins', 'Frumenteye' and 'Perre'. Join the encampment and learn about other daily crafts and tasks in the Medieval period.

You might also be lucky enough to feel the weight of plate armour, try on a helmet and then be amazed and appalled at the savagery of medieval warfare! Men-at-Arms will talk about their armour and put it to the test as they clash in bouts of head-to-head combat. You will see for yourself the amazing power of the English Warbow at archery practice and hear gruesome tales of the war against the French.

Arming a Knight - 12.00 pm & 3.00 pm
'Archery Through the Ages with a focus on the 100 Year War' - 2.00 pm

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Normal Museum admission prices apply.

In addition, all the Museum's buildings will be open to visitors.

Visit the medieval camp and find out what the ladies are making for their medieval midday meal. Working hard over the fire, they recreate menus from the Middle Ages such as 'Urchins', 'Frumenteye' and 'Perre'. Join the encampment and learn about other daily crafts and tasks in the Medieval period.

Watch the 95th Rifles from the Napoleonic war re-enactment groups train their soldiers around their encampment in the Village Green area and practice their drill and firing techniques with historic fire arms.

Rifle Drill 11.30 am and 2.30 pm

Beautiful classic cars, lorries and motorcycles and farm vehicles will visit the Museum during this weekend event providing a wonderful spectacle for visitors and classic vehicle enthusiasts! Explore the lovingly restored Austins and MGs, as well as many other makes of cars and motorcycles around the Museum. You may even enjoy some time trying your skill at riding vintage bicycles on the Village Green. Discover a collection of tractors, farm wagons and even a 1920s crawler from Earl’s Court in our farmyard.