Where buildings come alive through history
We are now closed for the winter. We will re-open on 30th March 2020.
Forthcoming Events
Home Ed Learning Day
5th March
Easter Lambing
10th April - 13th April
April Terrific Tuesday
14th April
George & the Dragon
25th - 26th April
For Uniformed Groups
6th May, 3rd June & 8th July
VE Day Celebration
8th - 9th May
Roman Gladiators
24th - 25th May
Terrific Tuesday May
26th May
Wellington’s Army
30 - 31 May
Mindful Mondays
1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th June
Enchanted Museum
20th June
Museum Garden Day
28th June
Outdoor Theatre
9th July
Classic Vehicles Show
11th - 12th July
Terrific Tuesdays
28th July, 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th August
English Civil War
1st - 2nd August
Rifle Manoeuvres
8th - 9th August
Houses Inhabited
15th - 16th August
Medieval Jousting
22nd - 23rd August
Elizabethan Adventure
30th - 31st August
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
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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Countryfile and Harvest
Chiltern Open Air Museum to Feature on the BBC’s Countryfile On the 19th September the BBC’s Countryfile visited the Museum to find out more about Harvest and its traditions. At the heart of the Museum is a working historic farm with arable fields and livestock that is run (as much as possible) using traditional methods
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