Museums in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire and Hertfordshire

Museums are a great, cheap place to visit with the kids. There are so many amazing museums across Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire and Hertfordshire. There are a vast array of specialities from the weird and wonderful, to animals to aeroplanes. We are lucky that most museums in the UK are free to visit. I’m sure you’d agree that, even the museums that charge are amazing value for money. Plus, museums are usually indoors so they’re a great rainy day option. If you’re looking for other things to do indoors with the kids in Buckinghamshire you can read my guide here.

I’ve also included reviews of museums that we’ve visited as day trips from Buckinghamshire. Yes, they’re a little bit outside of my patch, but they’re worth the extra miles!

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Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock

The Story Museum, Oxford

Discover Bucks Museum, Aylesbury

Shuttleworth Collection, Bedfordshire

Milton Keynes Museum, Buckinghamshire

River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames

Bletchley Park, nr Milton Keynes, Bucks

Celtic Harmony, Hertfordshire

Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Quainton, Bucks

Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont St Peter, Bucks

Amersham Museum, Buckinghamshire

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Weston Library, Oxford

History of Science Museum, Oxford

Divinity School, Oxford

Jordan’s Mill, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire

St Albans Museum & Gallery, Hertfordshire

St Albans Cathedral, Hertfordshire

The RAF Museum, London

Look Out Discovery Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire

Oxford Natural History Museum

Hellfire Caves, West Wycombe

Wycombe Museum, High Wycombe

Stockwood Discovery Centre,
Luton

The Mary Rose Museum,
Portsmouth

The National Space Centre,
Leicester

Aylesbury Library

Tring Natural History Museum, Hertfordshire

The British Museum, London

Chedworth Roman Villa, Cheltenham

The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre,
Buckinghamshire

The National Maritime Museum, London

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Museums are a great family day out

A visit to a museum was a regular part of my childhood growing up in Buckinghamshire. That’s something I’ve continued with my own children. Smallest Child even visited her first museum when she was just a couple of weeks old!! If you’re looking for other amazing free museums across the UK check out this website. As always, if you know somewhere I should be visiting then just get in touch!