Where buildings come alive through history
Covid - 19 - We want to keep all our staff, volunteers and visitors safe and will therefore remain closed until further notice.
Forthcoming Events
Roman Gladiators
POSTPONED 24th - 25th May
Terrific Tuesday May
CANCELLED 26th May
Wellington’s Army
CANCELLED 30 - 31 May
Mindful Mondays
CANCELLED
Enchanted Museum
CANCELLED 20th June
Museum Garden Day
POSTPONED 28th June
BMT Summer Festival
CANCELLED 5th July
Outdoor Theatre
CANCELLED 9th July
Classic Vehicles Show
CANCELLED 11th - 12th July
Terrific Tuesdays
28th July, 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th August
English Civil War
CANCELLED 1st - 2nd August
Rifle Manoeuvres
8th - 9th August
Houses Inhabited
15th - 16th August
Medieval Jousting
22nd - 23rd August
Elizabethan Adventure
30th - 31st August
For Uniformed Groups
16th September
Harvest Festival
26th - 27th September
Wild about Wool
17th - 18th October
Terrific Tuesday
27th October
Halloween Spectacular
30th October
Traditional Christmas
5th - 6th December
Museum Blog
We need your support
We would usually open every year daily between the end of March and October. However the Covid-19 emergency means we haven’t yet had the chance to open our doors to the public in 2020. As an independent museum and charity, we receive no government or local authority funding and have now lost all our regular
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Echoed Locations- Recording the Sounds of the Chilterns
Help record the sounds of the Chilterns Noise. Something which is all around us and we mostly tune into either when it is an annoying sound (someone else’s music on the train, fighter jets overhead, rush hour traffic) or when we want to tune out of the environment around us (by plugging into a podcast
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The Colne Valley Regional Park
Chiltern Open Air Museum is part of the Colne Valley Regional Park. The area boasts beautiful walks and other beauty spots and places to visit. Alex Gaffney, PR and Communications Manager, at the Colne Valley Park Business Centre tells us about what the Regional Park has to offer. The Colne Valley Regional Park Forty-three square
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Chalk Cherries and Chairs Landscape Partnership
Be a part of the new Chilterns Summer Festival in 2020 Our friends, The Chilterns Conservation Board, are running a new Heritage Lottery Funded project called Chalk, Cherries and Chairs Landscape Partnership. As part of this project they are running an exciting Chilterns Summer Festival in 2020, to help promote the Chilterns and its unique
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