Milestones Living History Museum

Milestones Living History Museum
Milestones Museum
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Milestones Museum
Milestones Museum
Milestones Rooftops Café

Historic buildings, vintage vehicles, costumed characters and more!

There’s no need to ‘remember the good old days’ – at Milestones Living History Museum, you can live them! In this detailed recreation of life from the Victorian times through to the 1930s and 1940s, you can travel the cobbled streets of yesteryear. In their life-sized, immersive streets you’ll find buildings, shops and vehicles recreated and restored as they would have been in olden times.

Run by Hampshire Cultural Trust, Milestones is split across two levels with plenty to see and do. From vintage Thornycroft vehicles to the milliner, saddler, ironmonger and more, you’ll get a fascinating look at how people in Basingstoke and the surrounding areas used to live.

It’s not just the buildings that will bring back memories either; for those with a sweet tooth, Milestones Living History Museum also contains its own 1940s sweet shop, Abrahams, where you can pick up your ration’s worth of niceties, or if you’re looking for something a little stronger, grab a pint at The Baverstock Arms!

Food and drink at Milestones Living History Museum

Milestones also has two further options for refreshments – a vintage tea tent offering cakes and a selection of drinks, plus The Rooftops Café, a larger space serving meals such as classic fish and chips, children’s options and lighter bites.

Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Friday: 10:00 am-4:45 pm
Saturday – Sunday: 10:00 am-4:45 pm

Last admission 3:45pm

Milestones is closed on Mondays, excluding school holidays.

Pay once, visit all year: enjoy unlimited visits to Milestones Museum. With your ticket
you can return to Milestones Museum as many times as you like for a whole year.
(Excludes some special events which may have an extra charge.)

Adult ticket: pay once, visit all year £18.50

Child ticket (5-15 years): pay once, visit all year £9.75

Group Adult: £14.00

Art Fund Members: £9.25

Concession ticket: pay once, visit all year £15.00

Family ticket (up to 5, max. 2 adults): pay once, visit all year £56.00

Under 5s: FREE

Why should I visit?

    • See what life was like in Hampshire’s past 
    • Visit a 1940s sweet shop and use a ration book to enjoy sweet treats
    • Enjoy vintage games from the Milestones Museum Pier
    • View a collection of classic cars from three of Hampshire’s main manufacturers
    • Designed for accessibility, with disabled access, free wheelchair rental, disabled parking and lifts on site

Facilities

Assistance dogs allowed
Baby changing facilities
Cafe
Disabled access
Disabled parking available
Free parking on site
Gift shop
Hearing loop / hearing aids available on request
On site parking
Suitable for ages 12 and above
Suitable for ages 3 and above
Suitable for ages 5 and above
Suitable for ages 8 and above
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Meet Father Christmas

2nd Dec 2023 - 23rd Dec 2023

Milestones Living History Museum

Meet Father Christmas in his magical Milestones grotto! Come along to our festive grotto deep in the heart of Milestones to receive a very... 

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Discount tickets and vouchers

There are currently no discounts available on tickets, parking or entry. Please sign up to get the latest vouchers as they become available. Or View all of our vouchers.

Where to find us

Address

Milestones Museum
Leisure Park
Churchill Way West
Basingstoke
RG22 6PG

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By car

Milestones is only 3 miles from the M3 on the Basingstoke Leisure Park.

From Junction 6 of the M3 follow the brown tourist signs for ‘Leisure Park’, driving clockwise around the ring road. At the Thornycroft Roundabout (you will see Milestones ahead of you), take the first exit into Churchill Way West (B3400), for Milestones and the Leisure Park. Go up to, and all the way round the next roundabout. Enter the Leisure Park via Entrance B, signed Milestones, and turn right. The museum lies straight ahead.

From Junction 7 of the M3 take the A30. Follow signs to Basingstoke town centre and brown tourist signs for ‘Leisure Park’. At Winchester Roundabout, follow the brown tourist signs for ‘Leisure Park’, driving clockwise around the ring road, to the Thornycroft Roundabout.

Parking

There is free car parking outside the museum and seven accessible parking spaces for disabled visitors close to the entrance, with a drop curb for easy access to the museum. These do not need to be booked in advance.

By train

Basingstoke Station is two miles from Milestones. A Leisure Park Shuttle bus can be taken from outside the Railway Station.

By bus

Frequent shuttle bus run during the daytime between the station, town centre and Leisure Park stopping directly outside the museum. Find more here – www.basingstoke.gov.uk

Kids activities

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  • Dedicated play space for children under five
  • Dress up in costumes from the Victorian era 
  • Climb aboard vehicles and interactive stations
  • Other family events, trails and activities take place throughout the year

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