Steam at Work

Our ever popular steam rally, ‘Steam at Work’ returns once again for 2024. When we started this event, 3 years ago, we called it ‘Steam at Work’ because our rally is different. It is not in a field, engines are spread around the Museum grounds,...

Weyfest Music Festival

Weyfest is one of, if not the greatest boutique music festival in the country, made more special than any other by the setting. This is not a music festival in a muddy field, this is a music festival at the Rural Life Museum! What other festival can boast historic...

Fun with Fire Engines

Our annual fire engine rally returns! Join us for a fun packed day for all the family where red paint, lights and sirens abound! See the Museum filled with fire engines from the turn of the last century through to the present day. Demonstrations will take place...

Lord Hopton’s Encampment

Lord Hopton’s Encampment, English Civil War, 15th & 16th June Living History Its 1643, Farnham Castle is held by Sir William Waller for Parliament, Sir Ralph Hopton’s Royalist Army are advancing across Hampshire and the two will soon meet in Farnham...

Village at War

May, 1944. Allied troops amass in the towns and villages of the South of England in preparation for the largest amphibious landing of troops the world has ever seen… Villager brace themselves as in the distance can be heard the rumbling of heavy trucks,...

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