About Chiltern Open Air Museum

Our collection of more than 30 buildings are deliberately grouped. They include a working nineteenth century farmyard and a village with its green, cottages, forge and chapel. In their appropriate settings the buildings, the artefacts they contain and the activities associated with them all illustrate the influences that have shaped the distinctive landscape of the Chilterns.

The buildings are interpreted in a whole variety of ways - some serve their original function, some are equipped and furnished to represent later periods in their history, some house exhibitions on life in the Chilterns and others have been adapted to provide facilities for visitors.