The fabulous painting ‘A Scene from the Risorgimento’ by Italian artist Gerolamo Induno in 1865 has been returned to Bucks County Museum after over three…

The fabulous painting ‘A Scene from the Risorgimento’ by Italian artist Gerolamo Induno in 1865 has been returned to Bucks County Museum after over three…
Bucks County Museum is delighted to have been awarded £223,000 by The National Lottery Heritage Fund for our new Bucks Heroes Project working with different…
My parents arrived in the UK as a part of the Windrush generation in the late 50’s and 60’s from the West Indian British colonies…
The decision to emigrate to any country is not simply a focus on the immediate need to improve a person's circumstances, as it comes with…
Over the summer, we ran a reopening project comprised of 12 yoga sessions, 4 open garden afternoons, 18 garden explorer sessions for families and 2…
A Conversation With Gladys This year’s theme for Black History Month is Women’s Achievements and whilst we have shared some stories from members of our…
Patsy Marie Morris left Franklin Town, which is situated adjacent to Jamaica’s capital, Kingston and boarded a plane to Heathrow Airport with her grandmother at…
Women and mum's in property Claudia and I have been best friends since the tender age of 11, first meeting at secondary school in South London.…
Prince McNichols (known as Dave) departed from St Vincent in 1960. He was nineteen when he left Mesopotamia, the small town he grew up in.…
I left Jamaica in 1960 to join my husband, who came over in 1959, as he had obtained a job as a service engineer in…
Women's Achievements I began my life journey in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire a place where I would come back to time and time again. Aylesbury in the…
Chester Jones moved to Aylesbury with his wife Inez in 1966, having arrived in the UK eleven years previously. Initially he lived in Fulham before…
Like all cultural organisations across the country we have had to adapt our planned events during the pandemic, and although the museum may currently be…
Part of Bucks County Museum is a Tudor House. The Tudors weren’t always very hygienic and so Tudor life could be very whiffy! Tudors had…
Bucks Back in Time Buckinghamshire has a number of Iron Age Hillforts along the line of the Chiltern Hills. Iron Age people lived on farmsteads…
Create your own amazing fossils using our simple guide. Don't forget to upload photos of your creations using the hashtag #saltdoughfossils
Create your own Egg-box garden and watch your seeds grow on your windowsill. Once clear of any frosts, normally by the end of April -…
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This is a Bovril jar, it is one of 150,000 objects that make up Bucks County Museum’s collection. It is made of brown glass with…
BLACK HISTORY MONTH The Wedding Shoes by Ann Alphonse [envira-gallery id="5841"] When we were little my sister and I would love to get dad’s wedding…
On the 26th August 2019, Bucks County Museum opened its doors to host an Eid Fayre with scores of visitors enjoying arts and crafts, historical…
The 2 overall winners of our Robot competition have been chosen! We were thrilled to receive so many excellent entries for our Robot competition from…
Bucks County Museum Trust is delighted to announce an award of £200,000 from the DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvements Fund to develop new permanent galleries…
Zohar Marer: Aylesbury resident; working at Lindengate, a local mental health charity. (All views are my own.) Here, this paradise, reserved only for me. My…
We’ve got a fantastic toy exhibition at the museum over Christmas with lots of toys and games for the kids to play with. But, we…
My name is Emma Prill; a local artist; a transgender woman and owner of the company 'Dresses and Pints'. Dresses and Pints is a place…