Chiltern Open Air Museum

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Chiltern Open Air Museum is a museum of vernacular buildings and a tourist attraction located near Chalfont St Peter and Chalfont St. Giles in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England.

The museum was founded in 1976 and aims to rescue and restore common English buildings from the chilterns, which might otherwise have been destroyed or demolished. The buildings are relocated to the museum site 45 acre site, which includes woodland and parkland. The collection of more than 30 buildings on view includes barns, other traditional farm buildings and homes. Buildings of interest are a 1940s prefab from Amersham a reconstruction of an Iron Age House, a Victorian Toll House from High Wycombe, a "Tin Chapple" from Henton and a Forge from Garston. A fine pair of cottages from 57 Compton Avenue at Leagrave, near Luton started out as a weather-boarded thatched barn with central double doors in the early eighteenth century. In the late eighteenth century the barn was `converted` into two labourers' cottages.

The museums collection includes 16 buildings that are in storage and due for re-erection as and when the museums funds permit.

Chiltern Open Air Museum is registered charity (No. 272381). Chiltern Open Air Museum has a small number of full time staff and a volunteer workforce of approx. 200.


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