Living History Re-enactments, Demonstrations and
Hands on Activities for all the Family
May 2011
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Bank Holiday
Heavy Horse Working Weekend
1 - 2 May |
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Meet our resident heavy horses, Harvey, Joshua and Samuel, as well as other visiting working horses, who will be demonstrating how heavy horses were used to work the land with horse drawn farm equipment and to pull traditional carts and waggons. Heavy horses on view over the weekend will include shire, clydesdale and percheron breeds.
Visitors will be able to see demonstrations of arable cultivation including ploughing and harrowing in the museums arable fields, meet our shire foals and view horse logging demonstrations in the woods from around 11.00 am to 4.00 pm each day of the event.
Tescos Club Card and O2 vouchers not valid for the Sunday and Monday of the event. |
May Day Morris Dancing Windsor Morris Side
Sunday 1 May Only
2.30 pm and 4.00 pm |
The Museum welcomes Windsor Morris to our site again to help visitors celebrate May Day in style with some traditional Morris dancing on the Village Green on Sunday 1 May.
Normal Museum admission prices apply.
In addition, all the Museum's buildings will be open to visitors. |
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Lace Making Weekend
7& 8 May |
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Come along and meet the Museum lace makers in Skippings Barn and learn new skills in traditional textiles. Try your hand at lace making and find out more about this local craft.
Play with 1940s toys in Jane and Tommy’s bedroom in the Prefab, try out a 1940s typewriter in the RAF Briefing Room or test your building skills with our wooden models! Normal Museum admission prices apply.
In addition, all the Museum's buildings will be open to visitors. |
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Victorian Soldiers "The Diehards" Training Weekend
14 & 15 May |
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See the Victorian soldiers as they practice their drill and take part in their training before they are deployed.
This is a living history training weekend for the eminent re-enacting group The Diehards.
Normal Museum admission prices apply.
In addition, all the Museum's buildings will be open to visitors.
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Friends of Chiltern Open Air Museum
FAMILY FUN DAY
Sunday 15 May
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Village Green
Chiltern Open Air Museum
2.00 pm – 5.30 pm
| 2.00 pm |
Grand Opening and presentation of certificates to long standing Friends |
| 2.15 pm |
Family Activities – play dough, making paper chains, splat the rat, sketching
Enid Blyton Story Time at the Prefab
Record your Friends memories at the Friends Centre |
| 3.30 pm |
1940s tea in Skippings Barn |
| 4.15 pm |
Pass the Parcel |
| 4.30 pm |
Presentation of certificates to children taking part
Scottish Dancing |
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1940s Hands-on Fun
21 -22 May |
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We regret that the previously scheduled Prelude to D Day event has been cancelled as the re-enactors are no longer available for this weekend. The Museum will be providing a weekend of 1940s activities in place of the D-Day event.
| 10.00 am - 5.00 pm |
Visit the toll house to find out what life was like on the Home Front |
| 12.00 pm, 1.30 pm and 3.30 pm |
Join in a 1940s school at Thame Vicarage Room |
| 12.00 pm until 4.00 pm |
Take part in Make Do and Mend activities at Amersham Prefab |
| 12.00 pm until 4.00 pm |
Take part in Defend the Home Front activities at Skippings Barn |
Normal Museum admission prices apply.
In addition, all the Museum's buildings will be open to visitors. |
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Bank Holiday
Saxon and Viking Warriors
28 - 30 May |
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Meet the Saxons and Vikings in their camp as they cook, work and practice their fighting skills. Throughout the day you will be able to experience what life was like 1000 years ago; try on a warrior’s helmet, learn how to fight the Viking way in Kidde Vike, see the woodworker and fletcher working together to make their arrows as well as the weaver and other members of the community.
| 11.30 am |
Weapons Demonstration and Skirmish |
| 12.00 pm |
Kidde Vike
(Viking Training School for Children - Places are limited and allocated by the
re-enactors at the start of the session) |
| 2.00 pm |
Archery Demonstration |
| 3.30 pm |
Viking and Saxon Battle |
Tescos Club Card and O2 vouchers not valid for the Sunday and Monday of the event.
Normal Museum admission prices apply.
In addition, all the Museum's buildings will be open to visitors. |
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