Marlow Museum

Besucher-Email: marlowmuseum@tiscali.co.uk
http://www.marlowmuseum.org...

ATTENTION: OPEN ONLY
Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays 1 pm-5 pm

Nov-Feb:
Sundays 2 pm-4 pm

National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park

Info Telefon: 01908 374708
Besucher-Email: info@tnmoc.org
http://www.tnmoc.org...

ATTENTION: OPEN ONLY Thurs and Sat afternoon (1pm to 5pm in summer or 4pm in winter)
Summer bank holidays open!

Pitstone Museum

Info Telefon: 01582 605464
http://www.lineone.net/~pitstonemus/...

ATTENTION: OPEN ONLY 8 days a year: All Bank Holiday Mon, 2nd Sunday of June, July, Aug and Sept
11.00am-5.00pm

Roald Dahl Children's Gallery

Fax.: 01296 ​334 ​884

Info Telefon: 01296 ​331 ​441
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/museum/dahl/in...

Mon-Fri 15:00-17:00 h, Sat 10:00-17:00 h, Sun 14:00-17:00 h.

School Holidays:
Mon-Sat 10:00-17:00, Sun 14:00-17:00 h.

The National Museum of Computing

Info Telefon: 01908 374708
Besucher-Email: info@tnmoc.org
http://www.tnmoc.org...

Thurs and Sat 1pm-5pm in summer, -4pm in winter

Open summer Bank holidays.

The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre

Info Telefon: +44 (0)1494 892192
http://www.roalddahlmuseum.org/ ...

10am to 5pm, Tues-Fri and 11am-5pm Sat and Sun.
We are closed on Mon, except bank holiday Mon and Buckinghamshire half-term Mon. 

Waddesdon Manor

Info Telefon: 01296 ​653226
Besucher-Email: waddesdonmanor@​nationaltrust.​org.​uk
http://www.​waddesdon.​org.&...

National Trust

The Gardens, Aviary, Woodland Playground, Shops and Restaurants:

7 Jan-25 March:
Weekends only: 10am-5pm

28 March-31 Dec:
Wedn-Fri only: 10am-5pm

28 March-31 Dec:
Weekends and Bank Holidays: 10am-5pm

House and Gardens, Wine Cellars, Woodland Playground, Shop and Restaurants:
28 March- 8 Oct and 14 Nov-31 Dec:
Wedn-Fri only: 12pm-4pm

28 March-28 Oct and 14 Nov-31 Dec:
Weekends and Bank Holiday 11am-4pm (includes 10 April, 5 June and 17, 18 and 31 Dec).

Bachelors' Wing
28 March-28 Oct:
Wedn-Fri only: 12pm-4pm

Please note, we close the House from 19 Oct-13 Nov for Christmas decoration. We are closed on 24, 25, 26 Dec.

As a family, the Rothschilds were the greatest collectors of the 19th century, seeking the highest quality of workmanship and with a keen sense of historical importance. The houses that they built, the interiors they created and the magnificent collections within them became known internationally as the ‘goût Rothschild’. Waddesdon is one of the rare survivors of that splendour.
Waddesdon’s internationally famous collection has been formed principally by four members of the family: Baron Ferdinand (1839-1898) who built Waddesdon and created the interiors, his sister Alice (1847-1922), their cousin Edmond (1845-1934) and the present Lord Rothschild (b. 1936). As near contemporaries, Ferdinand, Alice and Edmond – who resided in Paris – shared similar collecting interests and often competed with one another in the auction rooms and dealers’ galleries of Europe. With their strong interest in eighteenth-century France, they each created collections that would be the envy of any of today’s museums.

Ferdinand and Edmond, in particular, built lavish residences fitted out with original eighteenth-century interiors in which to show their superb works of art. Masterpieces created by the royal French porcelain manufactory of Sèvres were placed on furniture produced by the most significant French craftsmen of the eighteenth century, much of it made for the royal family and important members of the court. The floors were covered with Savonnerie carpets exclusive to the Crown and walls hung with tapestries from the royal Gobelins and Beauvais workshops on top of sumptuous silk fabrics. Paintings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by famous Dutch, Flemish and French artists subtly glowed from the walls. Baron Ferdinand also prized eighteenth-century British portraits by Reynolds, Gainsborough and Romney.

Today, the collection continues to grow through the patronage of Rothschild family trusts. Additions include several superb paintings by Chardin, Labille-Guiard, Pannini and Callet, a magnificent silver dinner service made for George III and a large collection of Sèvres porcelain sculpture. Significant pieces of contemporary sculpture by Stephen Cox, Angus Fairhurst, Sarah Lucas and Richard Long, for example, can be seen in the garden and at the Windmill Hill complex that houses the Waddesdon Archive and Rothschild Foundation.

Small picture: Francoise Boucher, Madame de Pompadour (unsigned, undated). 1862 sold at Christie's as "Madame du Barri".
 

William Cowper Memorial Museum with Rev John Newton Costume gallery

Fax.: 01285 643286

Info Telefon: 01234 711516
http://www.olio.demon.co.uk/cnmhome.html...

The Poet Cowper`s home from 1768 to 1786. Memorabilia of Cowper and, lace collection and gardens.

 

Wycombe Museum

Info Telefon: 01494 421895
Besucher-Email: museum@wycombe.gov.uk
http://www.wycombe.gov.uk/museum...

Mon-Sat 10:00-17:00 h
Sun 14:00-17:00 h

Bank Holidays closed.