Chesham Museum resources

Discover colourful stained-glass windows! Learn how they’re made, explore churches, and spot real and fake windows around Chesham.

Brushes are one of Chesham’s 5 Bs. Can you find where Hawes Brush Factory stands today?

What is a Pudding Stone and where can you find them in Chesham?

Discover how food travels from farms to your plate! Explore markets, farming, and history, then spot what’s changed in Chesham.

Build and explore like a real brick maker! Use Lego or the Museum’s foam brown bricks to copy patterns and discover how bricks helped grow your town.

The Chilterns area is well known for its beech tree woodlands. Today lots of people come from far and wide to walk in the woods in Chesham – as we are close to London and have a station. Download our resource and learn more about Chesham’s Woods.

Welcome to the Amazing Young Museum Writers Challenge. If you’re aged 12 or younger, you can submit creative writing in any form, including stories, poetry, anecdotes, comic strips, Show us what you can do with words!

There are lots of influential women from Chesham and the surrounding area. Who are you in history?

Explore Lowndes Park using your senses and choose how you want to do it.

Contains a variety of more than 35 items to read  from the past to trigger memories and nostalgia. Have fun with  discussions on how did you learn to read?. Who used to read to you, and who did you read to?

Developed with our partners at Bucks Mind, this 1950s household box is a great trip down memory lane for groups or families to discuss

Take a trip down memory lane and hire out our ‘Toys through Time’ box. Discuss the toys you played with as children.

This 1950s objects box helps meets National Curriculum orders on ‘Changes in living memory’.

Explore and discover some of Chesham’s historic buildings and characters as a family