Welcome to Pendon Museum
A glimpse of English rural life around 1930 through extraordinary dioramas featuring railways, villages and landscapes.
A glimpse of English rural life around 1930 through extraordinary dioramas featuring railways, villages and landscapes.
We intend to reopen on 22 May but for a period visits will need to be pre-booked.
Details of our temporary booking arrangements and associated processes can be found here.
See our Temporary Calendar for dates we are open in May and June.
Pendon opens at 11:00 and closes at 16:00. The last admission time is 15:15.
Digital jigsaws based on photos of Pendon with a range of difficulties - for children through to expert
Our membership organisation - we need you especially through this difficult period.
Explore some highlights from the Vale Scene - buildings and trains.
An ambitious model of the countryside of the Vale of White Horse as it was in the 1930s. It captures in miniature an impression of the calm unhurried beauty of the past.
Part of an imaginary Great Western branch line meandering from South Devon into Cornwall.
A famous, pioneering layout on permanent display. It runs on specific days during the year.