Established | 1976 |
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Location | Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England, UK |
Coordinates | 51°38′10.87″N 0°32′29.05″W / 51.6363528°N 0.5414028°W |
Type | |
Collections | Reconstructed vernacular buildings from the Chiltern Hills region |
Public transit access | |
Website | coam |
Chiltern Open Air Museum (COAM) is an independent open-air museum of vernacular buildings and a tourist attraction located near Chalfont St Peter and Chalfont St. Giles in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England. Its collection consists mainly of historic buildings at risk of demolition that have been dismantled and reconstructed in the museum grounds in a process of structure relocation.
The museum is a registered charity under English law.[1] It has a small number of full-time staff and a volunteer workforce of approximately 200.