Christmas is coming!
We’re getting in the festive mood! As well as our own Christmas Shopping Weekend on 16 and 17 November, find us at the Amersham-on-the-Hill Christmas Festival…
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From Market Town
To Metro-Land
Discover Amersham’s History
The Museum is now closed on weekdays until 2025. Our final opening hours before Christmas are 12noon to 4.30pm on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 December. Our shop is open 10am to 2pm on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 December. We will re-open fully on Saturday 1 March 2025.
Our Museum
Based largely in a medieval hall house, Amersham Museum explores life in the town’s past through intriguing objects and local stories. Sit at the Tudor dinner table, relax in the 1930s living room, or listen to stories in Ron Haddock’s 1960s record shop. Investigate our timeline display from fossils to dolls houses, and medieval tiles to historical maps. Visit our changing exhibition programme, join a guided walk, take part in an activity session, or wander through our medicinal herb garden. Click on this link to download our 2024 leaflet.
Support Us
We are an independent museum and registered charity, run almost entirely by volunteers. We do not receive funding from local or central government. Donations help support the running costs of the museum and the creation of special projects with community groups, older people and schools. Find out more about how you can support the museum
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1580
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In Other News
Funding support for portrait acquisition
We are delighted to receive a grant from the Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Fund to buy a portrait by Little Missenden artist Mary Henrietta Dering…
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Volunteer Bookkeeper Vacancy
Do you enjoy maintaining organised financial records? Would you like to play a key volunteer role helping Amersham Museum to run smoothly? Our current volunteer…
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New Perspectives through Photographic Portraits
New Perspectives through Photographic Portraits: The Duparc Family Collection Our Collections Manager, Emma Treleaven, was awarded an Understanding British Portraits Network Research Fellowship for 2023-24. The…
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Opening hours:
Wednesday to Sunday, and Bank Holiday Mondays, 12noon to 4:30pm
49 High Street
Old Amersham
Buckinghamshire
HP7 0DP
01494 723700
[email protected]
“Enjoyed our visit to this wonderful interactive museum where you are positively encouraged to touch things!”
“Visited Amersham museum yesterday – lovely place, provides many details on the history of the place. Plenty of cute cafes, pubs and shops around also… not difficult to find free parking nearby. ”
“A well-run, informative and interesting small museum on the main street. It’s mostly volunteer-run and they do a great job in keeping it and making you feel welcome…Check out the herb garden too.”
“Enjoyable film and television location guided walk around Amersham hosted by Amersham Museum – here are the Sun Houses on Highover Park and further up the hill is High & Over.”
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