Chiltern Open Air Museum Stone Age
Chiltern open air museum chalfont st.
Chiltern open air museum stone age. Here at coam we have an environmentally friendly ethos and maintain the museums 43 acre site using traditional skills and machinery. She chatted with school children about how she created her stories telling them tales of her own experiences meeting wolves and. Stone age school workshops and theme days at the award winning chiltern open air museum. At the beginning of the month year 3 visited chiltern open air museum to experience life in the stone age and the iron age.
Making the most of all the activities on offer. The buildings have been relocated to the museum s 45 acre 180 000 m 2 site which includes woodland and parkland. Chiltern open air museum to feature on the bbc s countryfile on the 19th september the bbc s countryfile visited the museum to find out more about harvest and its traditions. The museum was founded in 1976 and opened to the public in 1981.
Mesolithic school workshop stone age stone age for schools stone age school workshop prehistory curriculum at chiltern open air museum. Events tea room horrible histories re enactment farm animals woodland walk different buildings living history all ages iron age house toasted sandwich toll house play area candle making school trip dressing up pre. An interesting lady called rebecca who was dressed in animal skins met us at the edge of the woods and took us back in time to the stone age. We enjoyed every minute.
At the heart of the museum is a working historic farm with arable fields and livestock that is run as much as possible using traditional methods. In keeping with this since 2011 the museum has been undertaking an environmental monitoring project to monitor conditions in high wycombe toll house haddenham croft cottage and gerrards cross artefact store. Author of wolf brother michelle paver came to chiltern open air museum in may to launch a new wolf brother literacy theme day. Wolf brother author michelle paver helps literacy come alive at chiltern open air museum.
St fagans open air museum cardiff a new iron age replica farmstead was recently opened at st fagan s open air museum. Chiltern open air museum is an award winning museum and is highly qualified to deliver a prehistory curriculum. We have many archaeologists and specialists on staff who have worked with us to develop our stone age programme. Generate a pigment build a fire and re enact a hunt.
The building which is based on an archaeological site from the time of the roman conquest is a recreation of a small iron age farmstead near llansadwrn in the eastern corner of anglesey. Stone age 90 mins iron age life 60 90 mins archaeological dig 60 mins romans in britain 60 mins shelter building 60 mins any two workshops can be combined to create a theme day at a cost of 350 per group of 32.