Museums & places of interest

Bletchley Park, once Britain's best kept secret, is now a heritage site and museum, with exhibitions, events and ever increasing visitor numbers. The Park's breathtaking Second World War Codebreaking successes helped shorten the war by around two years. The Bletchley Park Trust's mission is to preserve and develop Bletchley Park as a world-class museum, heritage site and education centre.

For a First Class family day out, look no further than a Steaming Day at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. Have a steam train ride with a real steam locomotive, enjoy a trip on our ride-on miniature railway, visit our magnificent Railway Museum, learn about the Travelling Post Office, watch the model trains and enjoy our stunning Visitor Centre with café, shop and vintage locomotive and carriages.

Explore Chesham's past with our walking trails, quizzes, competitions and 'Fun At Home' activities. We are passionate about encouraging people to think about who has walked around their streets in the past, what they looked like, thought and saw. It's even more fun if you do this together.

A great day out for families, with more than 30 rescued historic buildings to explore, including an Iron Age roundhouse, 1940s prefab, Blacksmith's forge, Victorian tollhouse and tin chapel, nestled in 45 acres of woods and parkland. There are plenty of opportunities to dress up, play with historic toys and games, build models of the barns and lots of space to run around and discover.

The birthplace of the de Havilland DH98 Mosquito and also the oldest aircraft museum in the UK. Opening times: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays 10:30am - 5pm (last entry to museum 4pm)-get up close and into most of our aircraft exhibits. Open now until 10th November when it closes for winter until February.

In the main Discover Bucks Museum, explore our new galleries and discover the bones of a ferocious sea monster, a 3000-year-old sword and a huge hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins.

With family-friendly displays, a café, gift shop and relaxing garden, it's the perfect place for families to have fun and discover things together.

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TEMPORARILY CLOSED. Reopening summer 2024!

The world's oldest mechanised paper mill - the birthplace of paper's industrial revolution in 1803. Today it is still a working paper mill producing around 100 tonnes of specialist grade paper every year on historic paper machines. Much historical innovation occurred in the Gade Valley, with many world changing inventions, largely overlooked... Read more

Park & gardens open 30th March 2024.
House open from 23rd May 2024.

Enjoy a house steeped in over 400 years of history, with gardens that offer 40 acres of tranquillity. Built by Robert Cecil, in the grounds where Queen Elizabeth I spent much of her childhood, Hatfield House is home to centuries of historical treasures collected by the Cecil family. Hatfield House is open Thursday... Read more

The Museum offers a fascinating and inexpensive day out for the family with many interesting displays and artefacts to see relating to farming, country life, trades and professions plus many other exhibits, including three model railways, a 37 HP Crossley gas engine, stationary engines, vintage wirelesses, computer room, photographic and electrical apparatus, plus a new 'History of Sound' exhibit showing the development of sound recording and reproduction. We are a dog friendly site. Tractor rides are available to the Pitstone Windmill. Nine open days each year between Easter and October. Please check the website for details.