Chiltern Open Air Museum

Chiltern Open Air Museum

 

Friday 12th September 2025

 

£39pp

 

Pick Ups A B C D E

 

 

Our visit includes a guided tour

 

 

Set within the beautiful Chilterns countryside the museum is home to over 30 rescued historic buildings including: a 1940s Prefab, Victorian toll house, blacksmith’s forge, Iron Age roundhouse, Nissen huts and working historic farm.

 

 

The buildings on display that were the workplaces or homes of ordinary people. Every building on site was once somewhere else and either lived in or used by our Chilterns ancestors. By bringing the buildings together at the Museum we have built a timeline that helps to tell the story of the Chilterns – a special landscape of rolling chalk hills, traditional crafts, and time honoured ways of life that continue to inspire today.

 

 

 

 

 

Requests for particular seats on the coach can be made when booking and we will do our best to accommodate these requests, but allocations are made on a first come first served basis, dependent upon customer mobility. We reserve the right to change your seat and allocate you a different one for operational reasons. On single bookings, we reserve the right to alter your seating to maximize the seating available. We accept no liability in the event of any such change.

 

Accessibility

• Mobility scooters are welcome on site. Due to the size of our exhibit buildings mobility scooters are unable to go inside them.

• The Museum has a couple of off-road wheelchairs and mobility scooters available to borrow. These are free of charge, however, a security deposit is required while the scooter is on loan. As numbers are limited, these are available on a first come first served basis. Please ring the Museum Office on 01494 871 117 to check availability and to pre-book (lines are open Monday – Friday 9.30am – 4pm).

• The Museum has a golf buggy and our team of staff and volunteers are happy to provide lifts to those who need it. Please let a member of our team know if you require assistance.

• The Museum has ramps into the prefab, Henton mission room, WWI Nissen hut and Borehamwood dairy.

• Please be aware that our compact gravel paths are not ideal for wheelchairs and some paths can become very muddy in bad weather.

• We regret that the Woodland Walk is not suitable for wheelchairs.

• Small portable loop systems are installed at the Ticket Office and Skippings Barn.

• There is an accessible toilet to the left of our Caversham Edwardian toilets which has a changing space bed.

• There are accessible toilet facilities at our ‘Bakerloo’ mid-site toilets on the Village Green

 

See Useful Links tab for full access guide

 

Day Trip Departures

 

Timetable

• Our timetables are unique, bookings are taken throughout the year, and we release the pickup times around a month before departure. This allows us to ensure our pickup routes are kept to a minimum and our days run to time.

• Arrival and departure times in our brochure and on our website are a guideline and will be confirmed on your final confirmation.

• On some trips we run Fast Track pickups, typically on coastal trips or those of some distance. This shortens the pickup times and gets you to the destination in good time.

• Terms and Conditions can be found on our website or copies supplied upon request.

 

Seating arrangements

• Requests for particular seats on the coach can be made when booking and we will do our best to accommodate these requests, but allocations are made on a first come first served basis, dependent upon customer mobility. We reserve the right to change your seat and allocate you a different one for operational reasons. On single bookings, we reserve the right to alter your seating to maximize the seating available. We accept no liability in the event of any such change.

 

 

Chiltern Open Air Museum Accessibility Access Guide Terms & Conditions