Where buildings come alive through history
We are now open daily from 10am - 5pm.
Forthcoming Events
May Day Merriment
6th - 7th May
Enchanted Museum
12th May
Roman Gladiators
27th - 28th May
Terrific Tuesday May
29th May
Bushcraft Weekend
16th - 17th June
Suffragettes
23rd - 24th June
Tales from the Puppeteer
7th - 8th July
Sharpe’s Rifles
14th - 15th July
Classic Vehicles Show
21st - 22nd July
Ragged Victorians
28th - 29th July
Terrific Tuesdays
31st July, 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th August
Rural Life
4th - 5th August
Iron Age Life
18th - 19th August
Outdoor Cinema
22nd - 25th August
Harvest Festival
13th - 14th October
Museum Blog
Great Missenden Food Festival
NEWS: Unfortunately, due to the weather, Great Missenden Food Festival has been cancelled. Please contact the organisers, Love Food Live, with any queries. Friday 30th March – Monday 2nd April at Chiltern Open Air Museum This Easter weekend Chiltern Open Air Museum will be hosting the Great Missenden Food Festival. This popular food festival is
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A Buildings Team update
When I started at the museum, I had hoped to write a blog every month or so to let you all know what I/we were up to. This was seemingly quite optimistic as it has been about three months since my last post! Here is a little bit of what I have been up to
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Tractors, Tractors and Tractors
As you may have guessed from the blogs title, there is something I have become very fond of whilst being here at COAM……. TRACTORS! Having very limited experience on tractors, but a keen interest since from when I can remember, I made a tractor driving course high on my priority. I attended a two day
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10 things that you might not know about COAM
10 things that you might not know about Chiltern Open Air Museum The Museum has seen an increase of over 90% in visitors over the last 4 years! Over 21,000 school children visited the Museum for school workshops in 2017. The Museum has over 200 active volunteers and we couldn’t run without them. The Museum
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