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1pm Thursday 24th April 2025, 1pm Thursday 8th May 2025

Treat yourself to an elegant Afternoon Tea in our cafe area. Enjoy delicate finger sandwiches, a scone with jam, clotted cream and a selection of sweet treats along with a varied selection of teas and coffees to choose from when you arrive and a refill after your keeper talk.

Please choose from our classic or vegetarian option.

Admission to the Museum for the day is included in the Afternoon Tea. 

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 Thursday 24 April 2025 In this Tea and Talk join Nina our Keeper of Social History, to dive into the fascinating world of mystery objects from our social history collections. Some will feel familiar, while others may spark curiosity as you discover items that were once part of everyday life but seem strange and unfamiliar to our modern eyes. Join us for this tea and talk, where we’ll explore these intriguing artifacts and ponder the mysteries behind these objects and their presence in our museum’s collection.

The talk will last approx. 30 minutes and there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions after as you relax with your cream tea!

 Thursday 8 May 2025 In this Tea and Talk join Libby Owen to discover 'Why is there an Egyptian collection at Discover Bucks Museum?'

Libby has recently finished an archaeology and heritage MA at University College London. She has been volunteering at Discover Bucks Museum since February 2024

Today Egyptian antiquities can be found scattered across museum collections worldwide resulting from colonial collecting practices in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Discover Bucks Museum is no exception and holds around 400 objects from ancient Egypt. This Tea & Talk explores how these objects came to be in Buckinghamshire, so far away from their original archaeological context in Egypt. Touching on themes frequently discussed in academic Egyptological research today, the talk will present ways to better understand the modern history of the ancient objects in Bucks Museum’s collection and why this matters.

The talk will last approx. 30 minutes and there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions after as you relax with your cream tea!

Join us for a vibrant celebration of Holi – Spring Festival of Colours 2025, hosted by the Aylesbury Hindu Temple Trust, a local charity dedicated to supporting our community.

Timings: 11am – 3.30pm

This event is FREE  – but you do need to book your space to guarantee entry.

Our Holi event promises a day of endless fun and entertainment for the whole family. From playing with dry powdered colours (Gulal) to indulging in delicious Indian street food, enjoying music and dance performances, engaging in children’s craft activities, participating in the raffle draw, and more – there’s something for everyone to enjoy. It is a time to let loose and celebrate life. Family and friends gather to playfully throw colourful paint and bright powders at each other and in the air, fully immersing themselves from head-to-toe in colour. Additionally, a traditional wooden drum called a “Dhol” is played by a troupe, while dancing amid the colours.

If you would like to visit the Museum and / or Roald Dahl Children's Gallery please add these into your basket before check out.

The Aylesbury Branch of the Royal British Legion is delighted to invite the public to a very special Victory Event taking place at the Discover Bucks Museum on Saturday 3 May 2025. 

This event is FREE  – but you do need to book your space to guarantee entry. 

The event will begin with a brief service of remembrance at 2:00pm, to be attended by local dignitaries, veterans and cadet groups, before the Ellesborough Silver Band performs a selection of well-known and nostalgic numbers from the 1940s. Weather permitting, this will be followed by a special presentation by the Aylesbury School of Dance. Later in the day, a local female vocalist will serenade attendees with more wartime favourites, with plenty of opportunities for singing along.

A fete will be held in the garden, with craft stalls, and an extensive display of military memorabilia from the Second World War, free crafting events for children, and half-price entry to the Museum during the event.

Refreshments will be available to purchase from the café.

Visitors are encouraged to attend in vintage clothing or uniforms from the period. Anniversaries like this one are a rare occurrence, and the Branch hopes that a great number from the town and further afield will be able to join us as we celebrate it in grand style!

Schedule

2pm – Father Doug opening event, 2 minute silence

2:30pm – 3:30pm – Ellesborough Silver Band along with Aylesbury School of Dance.

3:30pm – Singer

Stalls- Osbourne Books, WI cake stall, Crystal stall

If you would like to visit the Museum and / or the Roald Dahl Children’s Gallery while you’re here please book your tickets below:

• Museum ticket – 1/2 price for this special event
• Roald Dahl Children’s Gallery and Museum ticket

Rock and Fossil day is back, come and join us for a day exploring rocks, fossils and minerals from Buckinghamshire and beyond with the experts from The Bucks Geology Group.

Found a rock you cannot identify? Bring it along and let our experts work out what it is.

Rockwatch, the UK’s nationwide geology club for children, will have lots of hands-on activities for the whole family to have a go at. Plus we will have crafts for all to enjoy including fossil making, fossil rubbing and  learning activities too.

Cost: £2 per person

Date: Sunday 4 May

Time: 12pm – 3pm

Festival Of Archaeology 2025 12:00-3:00pm

Announcing The Festival of Archaeology 2025 will take place at Discover Bucks Museum on Sunday 20th July.Join us for this annual festival coordinated by The Council for British Archaeology. Back with a showground of living history, archaeology, fun and crafts!

Have you ever wondered how an archaeologist on TV can look at a tiny, grubby piece of pottery and say, confidently “ah, that’s Roman, its almost 2000 years old!”?

Come along and handle pottery from all periods of history, and find out for yourself!

Meet the Experts!

You will be able to view and handle some exciting objects and learn more about them from Arwen Wood, Finds Liaison Officer for Buckinghamshire.

Thousands of objects over 300 years old or of significant county interest are recorded every year by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, a National Scheme run through the British Museum. This includes objects found by gardeners, walkers and detectorists. The objects recorded are used by researchers so by recording you are personally helping to advance knowledge of the history and archaeology of the county.

Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society – is the county’s lead society for archaeology, history, architecture and heritage and will be in attendance for the day.

The Buckinghamshire Council Archaeology Service maintain the Buckinghamshire Historic Environment Record and provide expert advice and guidance on any scheme, development or proposal which may impact on the county’s rich archaeological resource.  Made up of a team of professional archaeologists, they can share some of the exciting recent discoveries from within the county.

Archaeology Gallery

Continue your exploration of early life in Bucks in the archaeology gallery and find out about the early people from prehistoric times through to Roman, Saxon, Viking and Medieval times. Meet an Anglo-Saxon woman mistakenly called “the Aston Clinton Princess”, and find out why she’s not really royalty…

Explore the amazing Lenborough Hoard display, and the story of the forgotten invasion of England in 1016 by the Viking King Cnut. How do 5000 Anglo-Saxon silver coins, hidden in a field near Buckingham, tell the story of 1000 year old conflict between Vikings and Saxons? Find out about archaeology today and what has been discovered recently. Every object on display was once important to someone. They may have made, used or treasured it – each is a personal window into the past.

Crafts and activities

Entry to the Museum for the day is FREE and there will be lots of crafts for children to take part in including coin rubbing and brooch making as well as taking part in water excavation and a sandpit dig. Children can even make their own cave painting!