Chiltern Open Air Museum

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An outdoor museum with a collection of over 30 rescued and reconstructed historic buildings. Working farm, gardens, playground, traditional crafts. Exciting re-enactments and events programme. Award winning school workshops. www.coam.org.uk

A man and woman needing dough in a cottage.
Pink roses in bloom outside a brick cottage with red window frames.
A thatched cottage with orange flowers in the garden.
A mobile phone screen showing Chiltern Open Air Museum on the Bloomberg Connects App.
A knitted knight helmet on a display head.
A tree with lots of daffodils at its base
A mother and daughter scarecrow in 1940s clothes
Close up of fresh hedging
Iron Age roundhouse with smoke coming through the roof
A small red book on a wooden table.
A line of eggs increasing in size on a bed of hay.
A cream smock with collar
A reconstructed furniture factory from High Wycombe. It is L shaped with two floors painted green.
Four men working on a ramp outside Thame vicarage.
Paw print in the snow
A piece of embroidery in a frame on a wall.
A George VI card in a frame on a wooden unit.
Tudor re-enactors making kissing boughs
A black metal bracket on a brick wall with a black sign in the shape of an anvil that says Garston Forge on it.
A dresser filled with glass bottles of apple juice, gin and local beer.
A close up of a bowl with figgy pudding mixture. Underneath is an image of a woman dressed in Victorian clothes making figgy pudding in a Victorian kitchen. To the side is a figgy pudding recipe.
An Oxford Down ram close up looking at the camera.
Young child sitting in the museum playground using contents of a sensory backpack including ear defenders and sensory toys.
A wooden horse displaying traditional horse collar and tack at Chiltern Open Air Museum.
Sheep in a field
Man driving a historic yellow forklift truck through a gate at Chiltern Open Air Museum in Buckinghamshire
20th century cottage interior display showing a small table set for tea.