New Summer Adventure Pass

A whole summer to explore

The summer holidays can bring the same question again and again: what shall we do today? And tomorrow? And the day after that?

Our new Summer Adventure Pass is designed to help. From 21 July to 31 August, it gives families unlimited daytime visits to the Museum, with family activities, summer trails and living history events included, plus 10% off in our café and shop.

With something different to see, try or discover each day, you can return as often as you like. Less time wondering what to do, less pressure to fit everything into one visit, and more time enjoying the Museum together.

Available for a limited time only. Book ahead, pay once, play all summer.

Where will your Summer Adventure Pass take you?

To a medieval puppet show? A Tudor tabletop joust? A Victorian schoolroom? One of our 50 historic buildings? Or out into 40 acres of fresh air, woodland paths, working animals and open space?
Across the summer, the answer changes.

With your pass, you can return for favourite activities, follow different trails, enjoy living history events and move through three eras of childhood across the season.

Childhood Through Time

What did children do before screens?

This summer, childhood takes centre stage at the Museum.
Across the centuries, children have always found ways to play, compete, help, make, imagine and test themselves. Childhood Through Time brings those stories to life through trails, games, demonstrations and hands-on history.

Every day during the summer holidays Families can enjoy:

• The Toys Through Time Trail
• Historic houses to step inside
• Traditional games and family play
• Working animals and demonstrations
• Space to run, climb, picnic and explore

Three eras to discover

Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, families can enjoy extra hands-on childhood in time activities across the Museum, with a new historic era to explore every fortnight.

Medieval Times
Step into the Middle Ages with medieval puppet shows, traditional toys and games, storytelling and themed activities.

Tudor Times
Discover Tudor childhood through tabletop jousting, Tudor toys and games, and hands-on family activities.

Victorian Times
Explore Victorian childhood with train-inspired activities, cardboard house making and Victorian-themed family fun.

Game on, through the centuries.

See history come alive

Your Summer Adventure Pass also includes entry to our living history events, where the Museum’s buildings and landscape are filled with the sights, sounds and stories of the past.

Lammas Fayre – 31 July to 3 August

A four-day, site-wide celebration of the medieval harvest, with traditional crafts, open-fire cooking, farming demonstrations and bustling village life brought to life across the Museum by the Black Knight Historical Group.

The War of the Three Kingdoms – 22 & 23 August
Step into a 17th-century Royalist encampment with the Wardour Garrison. Meet soldiers and craftspeople, watch pike and musket displays, and discover traditional rural skills including rope making, candle dipping and lace making.

More to do with your Summer Adventure Pass

Adventure Bags

Pick up a free-to-borrow Adventure Bag and set young explorers off on a journey of play and discovery around the Museum’s buildings, landscape, wildlife and hidden corners.

Brand-new Great Wooden Ball Run, Kugel Way

Race a wooden ball along our new outdoor timber track. Buy a ball from the shop, watch it wind through the course, then take it home to bring back on future visits.
Room to roam

With 40 acres, more than 50 historic buildings, woodland paths, working animals, period gardens and open space, there is room for the whole family to enjoy the Museum at their own pace.

Have-a-go moments

Look out for chances to get closer to rural skills and working life, from milling and dairying to blacksmithing, sawyer-ing and hands-on demonstrations.

Good to know

Café and shop discount

Summer Adventure Pass holders receive 10% off in the Museum Café and Shop. Useful for lunch, treats, gifts and the all-important ice cream stop.

Picnics and family dogs welcome

Bring your own picnic and make a day of it. Dogs are welcome too, on short leads.

Choose your Summer Adventure Pass

Every pass includes unlimited daytime entry from 21 July to 31 August, family trails and included summer activities, living history events, and 10% off in the Museum Café and Shop. Some optional activities may carry an additional charge.

One Adult Summer Adventure Pass
1 adult + up to 3 children £49

Two Adult Summer Adventure Pass
2 adults + up to 3 children £67

Available for a limited time only.

Book ahead, pay once, play all summer.

Already a member?
You do not need to buy a Summer Adventure Pass. Your annual membership already includes daytime admission to the Museum, along with member benefits and exclusive opportunities across the year.

Terms and conditions apply. Passes are non-transferable and valid for daytime admission only between 27 July and 4 September 2026. Selected separately ticketed events, optional paid activities and evening open-air theatre performances are not included. Please check the What’s On page before your visit, as activities and demonstrations may change.