Where buildings come alive through history
The Museum is open daily from 10am - 5pm. Dogs are welcome on a short lead.
Forthcoming Events
Suffragettes
23rd - 24th June
Twelfth Night
4th July
Puppeteer Tales
7th - 8th July
Sharpe’s Rifles
14th - 15th July
Classic Vehicles Show
21st - 22nd July
Creative Thursdays
26th July - 30th August
Ragged Victorians
28th - 29th July
Terrific Tuesdays
31st July, 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th August
Rural Life
4th - 5th August
English Civil War
11th - 12th August
Iron Age Life
18th - 19th August
Outdoor Cinema
22nd - 25th August
Medieval Warbow
26th - 27th August
Wild about Wool
29th - 30th September
Harvest Festival
13th - 14th October
Museum Blog
No Lambs This Year – Just Kidding!
With the cold and wet weather, it’s been a challenging winter and early spring on the Museum farm. But our spirits have been kept up by the exciting news of this year’s planned new arrivals. Winter arrived early this year when it turned up unannounced last year by gate crashing autumn and refusing to go
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We’ve been Shortlisted for a Museums + Heritage Award
We’re really excited to have been shortlisted in the Museums + Heritage Awards 2018, under the Education Initiative for our literacy theme days for primary schools. In our industry this is the equivalent to being nominated for a BAFTA, so we’re very excited and very proud of our team. We’re shortlisted with some really big
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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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