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1pm on Thursday 9th May 2024 & 1pm on Thursday 13th June

Treat yourself to an elegant Afternoon Tea in our cafe or beautiful garden, weather dependant. Enjoy delicate finger sandwiches, a scone with jam, clotted cream or butter 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 vegertarian option:

Classic - Salmon & Cream Cheese and Ham & Mustard

Vegetarian - Cream Cheese & Cucumber and Cheese & Pickle

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

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Thursday 9th May join our Keeper of Archaeology, Brett Thorn for a whistle stop personal tour of the new Discover Bucks archaeology gallery - from stone age tools to Roman villas, Viking axes to a medieval hunting horn, and of course, the star of the show, the Lenborough hoard – the largest hoard of Saxon silver coins found in Britain for over 150 years. The walking tour will last approx. 30 minutes, and there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions after the tour, as you relax with your cream tea! Please note this tour was previously ran in February and is being redone due to its popularity.

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Thursday 13th June join our Keeper of Natural History and Geology, Mike Parlmer, who will be bringing along a selection of Buckinghamshire’s more unusual rock and mineral specimens from the Museum’s collection to talk about and hand around for a closer look. 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!

Saturday 1 June - Join artist Lian Chan on a guided walk to discover the sites painted by John and Paul Nash in Whiteleaf, Bucks a century ago.

Enjoy the benefits of being immersed amongst the wondrous woodlands, where the brothers found solace and respite after returning from the frontlines of WW1. Lian will share how their paintings and story has influenced her work for the exhibition This Fractured Land - This Fractured Land - Discover Bucks (discoverbucksmuseum.org), which also inlcudes paintings by the brothers. 

We will walk at a leisurely pace with stops along the way, but there are some steep parts. So sadly, is not suitable for persons with restriced mobility or young children. Sorry but dogs are not permitted on this walk. 

Location: Whiteleaf Cross Car Park, HP27 0RP

Timings: Saturday 1 June, 10am - 12pm. The walk will start promptly at 10am so please arrive on time (the car park can become busy, so please allow time to park and share lifts or walk if possible).

Tickets are £11 per person.

Your ticket also includes a day pass to Discover Bucks Museum at a later date of your choosing. Please keep your confirmation email and show the team at reception when you arrive. Your visit must take place by Sunday 7 July 2024. For opening times please see here: https://www.discoverbucksmuseum.org/admission

Join Cara Gordon, The 2024 Muir Trust artist in Residence for a talk about her career and this residency followed by a private view of her exhibition.

Saturday 23rd May 3pm

Entry to the talk is included with your Museum ticket - book a slot for the talk to secure your place as capacity is limited.

Further information about the Residency and Exhibition:

~Residency : 9 April – 9 May 2024~

Meet the artist at the Museum on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and at Aylesbury Library on Tuesdays

~‘Exploring Portraiture’ exhibition : opens 24 May 2024~

Cara’s evocative works range from portraiture to landscapes. She is a renowned and award-winning artist including winning the RUA Gold Medal at the 2021 exhibition at the Ulster Museum.
For her Residency, Cara will create a group of drawn portraits and sketches of local people within the museum and the surrounding town. These may be quick spontaneous sketches or longer studies made onto collages of discarded papers that add another dimension and texture to each portrait. She will be looking for a diverse range of sitters to illustrate the town and its communities today and hopes to engage new audiences with her work.

Write On Comedy is an independent association of writers on comedy and comedians and people connected with comedy who write… in all sorts of genres.

So, at our Book Festival you can expect to meet writers of Celebrity Memoirs; fascinating Biographies; Crime Fiction, books for Young Adults; Poetry; we even have a fun and friendly Workshop for Children’s Illustration.

Entry to the event is FREE with your standard Museum entry charge. Adult tickets are £6.50 and children go free.

Follow the link to see our confirmed guests: https://www.discoverbucksmuseum.org/whats-on/book-festival-with-celebrity-authors/