MuseumsWoburn Sands

With its emphasis clearly focused on the local community the Social History collections reflect both the home and working environments of the people of north Bedfordshire. The collections of some 20,000 items cover the wide range of domestic, corporate, military and agricultural life as well as local…
Distance: 12.3 miles away

Housed in a restored cornmill in the picturesque village of Stoke Bruerne on the Grand Union Canal, the museum collection vividly portrays the heritage of 200 years of inland waterways. This fascinating and colourful insight into a transport system, fundamental to the industrial revolution in Britain is…
Distance: 14.3 miles away

Wardown Park Museum is situated in a beautiful landscaped park around 1.5 miles north from the centre of Luton. The first floor galleries opened as the Luton Life displays in February 2003. The ground floor galleries include the Living Landscape gallery with displays on archaeology and…
Distance: 12.9 miles away

Stockwood Park Museum is housed in tranquil parkland on the site of the former Stockwood House around 2 miles to the south of Luton town centre, close to junction 10 of the M1. Stockwood Park Museum includes displays on rural Bedfordshire Crafts, the Mossman Collection of horse‐drawn…
Distance: 14 miles away

The Zoological Museum has been part of the Natural History Museum since 1937, but it was once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild, who moved with his family to Tring Park in 1872. Lionel Walter Rothschild was born in 1868, the eldest son of Nathan…
Distance: 14.8 miles away