Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum

Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum Welcome to the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK Last admission 4.15pm. (Updated 31/03/2022)

Museum Opening Times:

Tuesday to Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturdays 11am - 5pm
Sundays 2pm - 5pm. Admission Prices:

Adult (Standard): £6.50
Concessions (Over 60s, Students, Armed Forces): £5.50
Child (5 - 16 yrs): £3.50
Annual Passes, Family and Group ticket offers also available. Visit the museum's permanent galleries which include:

Battles of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
The Oxfor

dshire Yeomanry and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
The Secret War 1939 - 1945
Prisoners of War: At Home and Abroad
Winston Churchil and the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars
Oxfordshire Airpower: The Airmen and Airfields
Blood and War: Life on the Front Line
The 21st Century Soldier - Modern Conflict

Walk through a re-created Great War trench dugout, sit inside a replica section of a D-Day Horsa Glider, have a go at code breaking and much more with interactive exhibits for all ages.

"in war, time is so precious to the young people" season continues with our regular Meet Me at the Museum drop-in - cat...
17/06/2026

"in war, time is so precious to the young people"

season continues with our regular Meet Me at the Museum drop-in - catch a FREE screening of '40s classic Mrs Miniver from 2pm, Thursday 25 June 2026

Save your seat at the matinee! https://buff.ly/p7fsyrR

15/06/2026

"The most important thing to remember is: there's a war on"

Some of Lee Miller's early work for British Vogue focused on US nurses working at Churchill Hospital, Oxford. Our exhibition of her work also features the voices of many other women, discussing their memories of wartime.

Iris Burden was a British nurse sent to Italy, here she talks about matron's advice on how to prepare for their ship being torpedoed!

Tickets are now available for An Evening with Ami Bouhassane - celebrating the Lee Miller: A Woman at War exhibition, th...
13/06/2026

Tickets are now available for An Evening with Ami Bouhassane - celebrating the Lee Miller: A Woman at War exhibition, the author and director of Farleys House joins us to discuss the life and legacy of her grandmother - Lee Miller.

Book now: https://buff.ly/UcUNkuu

Lee Miller Archives

11/06/2026

Lee Miller was following US troops when they liberated the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps, and one of the first journalists to enter Dachau, documenting what had gone on there.

The current exhibition also features the voices of many women serving in different roles during the war, and the ways in which women were impacted by conflict.

Susan Pollack is amongst those voices - a suvivor of both the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen camps. In this short clip, she talks about her disbelief at being liberated.

Hear more in Lee Miller: A Woman at War and our permanent Liberation of Bergen-Belsen exhibits

This weekend's talk is with Osprey Publishing author Ben Barry, exploring 'The Rise and Fall of the British Army' over t...
09/06/2026

This weekend's talk is with Osprey Publishing author Ben Barry, exploring 'The Rise and Fall of the British Army' over the last 50 years, from low ebb in the 1970s, through the Cold War, Iraq, Afghanistan, to the challenges it faces today.

Join us from 2pm, 13 June in the Briefing Room. Book your tickets now: https://buff.ly/4lyBGXq

1944 - D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy. Two battalions of the Oxf & Bucks Light Infantry landed on D-Day, by ai...
06/06/2026

1944 - D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy. Two battalions of the Oxf & Bucks Light Infantry landed on D-Day, by air and by sea:

1st Bucks (TA) Battalion landed at Sword Beach, part of No. 6 Beach Group, responsible for organising units landing there, the battalion provided infantry support within their beach Group.

2nd Battalion arrived by air, with D and elements of B Company landing in the early hours of the morning to capture the Caen Canal and Orne River bridges - vital for forces arriving at the beaches to advance into France. The majority of 2nd Bn landed in the evening, reinforcing their allies and fighting to hold the bridgehead.

Of course, D-Day was just the beginning, and 1st Battalion Oxf & Bucks would also serve in Normandy. Arriving by sea in late June, they would be involved in fighting all the way through France, into Belgium, Holland and on to Germany.

📷️ : Look closely at the aerial photo and you can ake out little white crosses scatted across the fields - these are Horsa gliders - with a tight group of three very close to the bridge in the top left!

📷️ : The second photo, from the Imperial War Museum, shows men of 6th Beach Group, including 1st Bucks Bn, looking out to sea from their beach sector.

Drop in at the museum tomorrow for a special D-Day anniversary object handling session - go hands on with history and so...
05/06/2026

Drop in at the museum tomorrow for a special D-Day anniversary object handling session - go hands on with history and some of the kit used by soldiers in Normandy 82 years ago!

11am - 2pm - included with gallery admission, open to all ages!

As part of our Creative Bridges Across Generations project, following the successful crowdfunding campaign last year, we...
04/06/2026

As part of our Creative Bridges Across Generations project, following the successful crowdfunding campaign last year, we'll be supporting the Creative Reset Collective with FREE Music & Arts Workshops in Oxfordshire - June-August 2026.

This will provide 13 - 18 year olds to access workshops, trips and opportunities to meet veterans at the museum.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ioYCLvB444Y

03/06/2026

'They dropped leaflets to tell us we hadn't got no chance to get away - which they was quite right... But of course, every man to the end, and all that'

Last week we marked the anniversary of Dunkirk and the Oxf & Bucks' defence of the retreat at Cassel, Hazebrouck and Comines.

George Andrews served with 4th Oxf & Bucks at Cassel. He survived the battle, but became one of the many taken as a POW afterwards - very few managed to evacuate from Dunkirk, such that although the battalion was reformed, it never served overseas as a unit again.

In this clip from our Oral History Archives, he describes becoming surrounded, the Germans' attempts to persuade them to surrender, and the lethal accuracy of enemy mortars.

Images in this reel were taken at Cassel shortly after the fighting ended, showing a German soldier riding through the remains of the town, and captured British soldiers tending to casualties while under watch of German troops.

Visitors to our permanent galleries will find more about these events, and more accounts of Oxfordshire people who became prisoners of war

Oxford University student Nicole took on a micro-internship at the museum recently - helping us prepare the new Lee Mill...
01/06/2026

Oxford University student Nicole took on a micro-internship at the museum recently - helping us prepare the new Lee Miller exhibition, here's what she had to say about the experience:

Do come to this exhibition! It features 33 photos mostly taken by Lee Miller. In this exhibition, we focus on her journey as a photojournalist—understanding how her paths have been shaped by her childhood, her travels, and her experiences.

She brought the reality of World War 2 to the public through her unapologetically real photos. This story is told through four sections: front line coverage, documenting life and horrors, surrealist eye, and the place of women.

As the writer of the introduction panel and section summaries, I have learnt a lot about Lee Miller, photojournalism, and the place of women in war photography. I hope you enjoy this exhibition! 📸

Photo: Colin Morris Photography

Address

Park Street
Woodstock
OX201SN

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 5pm
Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 2pm - 5pm

Telephone

+441993810210

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