Opening Days for 2025

We are open Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays and daily in Bucks school holidays from Saturday 8 March to Thursday 30 October 2025. Our opening times are 10am until 5pm.

Tickets are available to book on the door (while avilable). Pre-book your tickets online in advance you can save up to £1 per ticket.

We will also be opening for our Halloween Spectacular on Friday 31 October and for a special Festive Weekend on 6 and 7 December. 

Ticket Types

If the ticket date isn't showing as available under standard admission and is an open day, it will be a Premium Day and you will need to select the event on the general admission page to book.

School Holiday Opening Dates
We are open daily throughout these dates.

Easter 29th March to 15th April
May half-term 25th May to 2nd June
Summer holidays 20th July to 8th September
October half-term 26th October to 31st October (From Sunday 27th October we will be closing at the earlier time of 4pm).

Promotional Offers

If you have a valid 2 for 1 promotional voucher/card, including Gardener's World, this can only be used against tickets purchased on the door and not online tickets. One promotional card/voucher can be used for two people only and cannot be used for group entry. Gardener's World 2 for 1 and Historic Houses Membership can only be used on our standard admission days.

Catering

Hot and cold drinks, sandwiches, sausage rolls, ice creams, cakes, and snacks can be purchased from our Skippings Barn. We have lots of picnic tables and lots of space for picnic blankets around our site.

You may wish to bring some spare change with you to roll into our well where you can hear our well spirits talk!

Mobility Scooters

We have mobility scooters that can be borrowed. Please email us on enquiries@coam.org.uk to check availability and book.

Dogs

Dogs on short leads are very welcome on site. Dogs are not allowed to go inside any of our furnished exhibit buildings.

Gift Aid

The Museum is a charity and all admission prices include a voluntary donation of 10%. If you are a UK tax payer please tick the box and fill out your details so that we can claim Gift Aid on your admission. Gift Aid donations to the Museum allow us to claim an extra 25% from the government on the total amount that you pay to us, at no extra cost to you.

Tickets are non-refundable but if you contact us at least 24 hours prior to the start of your booked slot we can reschedule your booking for you.

Join us for a Bat Walk with our expert, Mike Jennings. Enjoy an evening walk around the museum and use bat detectors to find and discover bats on our site.

Please arrive at the ticket office at 6.45pm for a 7pm start. The walk will end at approximately 8.30pm.

Tickets must be pre-booked and are very limited.

We advise that you wear sturdy footwear and bring a torch.

Discover the fascinating traditions of our farming history.

• Find out more about a traditional Harvest and rural skills
• See Tudor re-enactors from The Companye of Merrie Folke showing what life was like in Tudor times
• Watch Morris dancing
• See sheep dogs in action working our flock of Oxford Down sheep
• Experience the threshing machine in action & find out about the swing riots
• Visit our Bodger's Area and learn about what bodgers made
• Learn about our charcoal kiln and saw pit
• See our Harvest display in Henton chapel made from our allotment and garden produce
• Watch as our traditional bakers make a harvest loaf
• See some apple pressing
• See what our blacksmith is making in the forge

This is a Premium admission day. Free entry for COAM Annual Members

A knitting and wool craft event

Join us for our special Wild About Wool knitting event and discover different types of textile crafts. Chat to our experts about your knitting conundrums, learn about peg looms, see a sock knitting machine in action and learn about the importance of knitting for the troops on the home front during WWI.

Visit our Home Front reenactors and out about the role of knitting in the Great War, the manufacture of Soldier’s woollen comforts and their distribution to the men, and women, at the front by the British Red Cross and First Aid Nursing Yeomanry.

All activities are weather dependent and subject to change.

This is a standard admission day. Free entry for COAM Annual Members

Our Halloween Spectacular is back on Friday 31 October from 5pm to 9pm.

Early bird tickets are available now until 30th September.

Come and join us for an evening of spooky fun.

See our buildings dressed up spooctacularly, listen to spine tingling storytelling, watch out for the spooky horses, warm yourself up by the bonfire & toast some marshmallows, and brave the scary walk but watch out for monsters!

Enjoy the amazing fire-performance and take part in family activities.

There will be two time slots for admissions one at 5pm and one at 6pm.

Please pre-book your tickets.