MILTON KEYNES MUSEUM

Often called the people’s museum, the Milton Keynes Museum was established in 1973 that records the lives of residents of Milton Keynes through different objects. It has different galleries that have depicted objects like telephones, agriculture, transportation, archaeology, printing, etc.

Milton Keynes Museum whose former name was Stacey Hill Museum is an independent local museum which is located in the congregation of Wolverton and Greenleys. One of its own kind, the museum which is popular as the most interesting places to see in Milton Keynes has an incredible collection of rural life consisting of agricultural, domestic, industrial and social objects.

It has different sections like the telephone, agriculture, transportation , archaeology, printing, rural crafts and domestic. Explore the technologies of the past as you explore the museum which lets you reach out and touch the artefacts as well.

The varied collection at the museum shares information about the evolution of telephones, role of machinery in agriculture, artefacts relating to the Wolverton Railway Work, and an archeological collection from the Bancroft Roman Villa. The museum houses the printing press which belongs to it, the Coloumbian hand press is much smaller in size than Albion Hand press which was built in 1845.

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Highlights

• Feed your curiosity as you reach out and touch the artefacts from the collection in this unique museum.
• Watch the collection of rural craft tools like straw-plait work and tools which were used in loughton during the 1920s.
• The other impressive collection that visitors at the museum shouldn’t miss is that of the utensils used during the Victorian times up until WW2.
• If you wish to shop some unusual artefacts then visit the shops at the museum which have shops included like a 1924 Hoosier Kitchen Unit, Cadbury’s dresser, a Jacob’s & Co Biscuit tin unit, etc.
• Witness the large collection of different objects like telephones, archeology, printing, etc., which essentially depicts the lives of the commoners of the town.