Milton Keynes Museum History Festival
Sat 09 May
|Milton Keynes Museum
This May, get even closer to the past, with the return of our popular History Festival spanning over 5000 years of history in one weekend!
Time & Location
09 May 2026, 10:30 – 10 May 2026, 16:30
Milton Keynes Museum, McConnell Dr, Wolverton, Milton Keynes MK12 5EL, UK
About
Wander around the tent village set up in the Museum grounds and travel back in time to meet Romans, Tudors, Civil War Soldiers, Suffragettes and many more!
This year Dr. James Dilley will be joining the festival to push back the festival timeline beyond 5000 years ago! Watch flintknapping, fire lighting and bronze casting and discover how humans changed over an epic journey through thousands of years to become us.
Nearly 100 re-enactors will be roaming around the Museum throughout the weekend ready to answer your burning questions about life in the past.
All the re-enactors will be entertaining across the site all weekend, and taking turns to give demonstrations in the ever popular arena.
Aside from watching the action and interacting with those figures from our history, youngsters can get hands-on with activities including mosaic making and sandbox digging.
All the Museum’s usual attractions will be open too; you will…