You are here: > Vale & Downland Museum

Vale & Downland Museum

Type:Museum

19 Church Street
Wantage
Oxfordshire
OX12 8BL

Tel: 01235 771 447

Visit Website

Add Vale & Downland Museum to your Itinerary

A group of museum volunteers dressed up in period costumes

Book Tickets

Facilities

Accessibility

  • Accessible to Wheelchair Users - Most areas, including toilets, are accessible to visitors with mobility impairments. A stair lift assists with access to the main galleries and a wheelchair is available for visitors to borrow. Unfortunately, as the museum is housed within a historic old building, the Research Library and Mezzanine Gallery are not accessible to wheelchair users.
  • Assistance Dogs

Children & Infants

  • Baby Changing Facilities

Establishment Features

  • On-site Restaurant/Cafe
  • Shop

Opening Times

Opening times (1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2023)
DayTimes
Monday - Saturday09:30 - 15:45
SundayClosed
Bank HolidayClosed

* Last admission to the galleries at 3.30pm.

Directions

Map Link

Further Information

TripAdvisor

Map and What's Nearby

  1. Millets Wildside Falconry and Wildlife Centre

    Millets Farm Falconry Centre is Oxfordshire’s biggest centre for falconry and wildlife.…

    5.97 miles away

  2. Faringdon Folly Tower and Woodland

    Folly Tower, reaching for the sky up on Folly Hill, surrounded by charming woodland, with…

    7.94 miles away

  3. Chimney Meadows Nature Reserve

    Chimney Meadows is one of Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust’s flagship nature reserves…

    8.81 miles away

  1. Pendon Museum

    Pendon recaptures scenes from the English countryside as it was in the 1920s and 1930s…

    9.61 miles away

  2. Standlake - St Giles Church

    Like so many churches, St Giles Church is medieval in origin but much altered and…

    9.83 miles away

  3. Aston Pottery

    Take four disparate components and bring them together to produce something far greater…

    10.15 miles away

  4. Hardwick Parks Watersports Centre

    The watersports centre is located between our two lakes. We have a wide variety of…

    10.5 miles away

  5. Island Farm Donkey Sanctuary

    Island Farm Donkey Sanctuary is based at Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Nr. Wallingford in South…

    10.87 miles away

  6. Bampton Community Archive

    The Old Grammar School in Bampton was built by Robert Vesey (d.1635), a wealthy local…

    10.96 miles away

  7. Bampton - St Mary's Church

    It seems there was a church here long before the Norman Conquest, although the only…

    11.02 miles away

  8. Stanton Harcourt - St Michael's Church

    The chancel of St Michael's church contains two of Oxfordshire's greatest church…

    11.15 miles away

  9. Buscot Park (National Trust)

    Late 18th-century house, set in enchanting landscaped grounds, which houses an extensive…

    11.18 miles away

  10. Clanfield - St Stephen's Church

    A late 12th century Church. It was originally a chapel of nearby Bampton church, and was…

    11.4 miles away

  11. Kelmscott Manor

    The country home of William Morris - poet, craftsman and socialist - from 1871 until…

    11.44 miles away

  12. Kelmscott - St George's Church

    Originally a chapel of ease, St George's Church in Kelmscott is practically unaltered…

    11.56 miles away

  13. Harcourt Arboretum

    Explore over 130 acres of the world’s rare and endangered trees.

    11.84 miles away
Previous See More
More

Map Link

View Map and Whats Nearby

Skip To Main Content

St Oswald's Church at Widford (photo Helena Sylvester)
Home Inspire me Blog
Stay Do Eat & drink
Shop What's on Plan