Museums in Hampshire - Family Days Out in Hampshire.
Please refer to the
Hampshire County Councils
Museums Page
for a detailed list of all museum opening times, admission charges and
contact details, as these are subject to change.
Queens Avenue, Aldershot Hampshire. GU11 2LG
There are uniforms, badges,
medals, weapons, furniture and other equipment which illustrate typical
equipment used by regiments that have been stationed in Aldershot. It
includes vehicles tested and evaluated on the local training areas from
the Army's Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (FVRDE)
which was nearby.
Church Street, Alton Hampshire. GU34 2BW
It was originally known as the
Museum Annex when it first opened in 1963. The addition of a new
exhibition space and other internal works revitalised the building in the
following decade and when it reopened in 1979 it soon achieved prominence
as The Allen Gallery. It has an outstanding collection of decorative arts
with ceramics dating from 1250 to the present day, considered to be one of
the best collections in the South of England.
6 Church Close, Andover, Hampshire, UK
The museum is a former town
house of about 1750, visited by Jane Austen, who wrote about the 'highly
extolled staircase', and 'elegant drawing room'.
About 100 years later the building became part of the Andover Grammar
School. In 1888 a new set of classrooms were built, and these are now the
Museum of the Iron Age.
Bursledon
Windmill
Windmill Lane, Bursledon Hampshire. UK
Bursledon Windmill is a wind powered corn mill. It has been lovingly
restored to full working order. A traditional timber framed barn and a
granary have been reconstructed on the site together with a farm pond to
provide a superb example of Hampshire's rural heritage. An attractive
woodland habitat next to the mill supports a wide range of wildlife.
Bursledon Windmill is signposted from junction 8 on the M27
Leisure Park, Churchill Way
West Basingstoke Hampshire.
Imagine an open-air museum
inside a massive modern building… with a network of streets and buildings
based on those found in Hampshire from Victorian times and the 1930s… a
surprise around every corner!
As a
festive treat the museum will also open its doors after dark on 9 December and
16 December from 7pm to 10pm to invite people to attend two special Christmas
Gala Evenings.
Tickets
for the gala evenings cost £8.50 for adults, £7.75 for concessions, £5 for
children and £24 for families (2 adults and 2 children). Children under five
years and annual and life members are admitted free of charge. Pre-booking on
01256 403901 is required.
25 High Street, Eastleigh
Hampshire. UK
Discover what life was like in
Eastleigh during the 1930s. Eastleigh Museum is housed in the old Salvation Army Citadel and was
converted into a museum in 1986. Meet Mr Brown and Mrs Brown, a local
engine driver and his wife. See the recreation of their family home, a
Victorian terraced house for which Eastleigh is well known.
The displays include the family's living room at tea-time, the scullery,
the back yard and out-house.
High Street, Alton Hampshire. GU34 1BA
Alton... an historic market town in the heart of the Hampshire countryside
.... only 50 miles south-west of London and 25 miles north of Portsmouth. Displays include....Prehistoric Tools, Roman pottery reconstruction, Saxon burials, the Battle
of Alton 1643, the notorious tale of Sweet Fanny Adams and Hop picking and
brewing.
The Gallery of Childhood is packed with toys, children's books and dolls
dating back to the
18th century.
There are also two fully furnished dolls houses and a selection of jigsaw
puzzles. All are displayed in delightful miniature cases at an ideal
height for children.
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