SHOPS AND SHOPPING

Ever since people began to trade and exchange goods there has been a need for shops and shopping.

Museum Street uses original shop fronts from around Milton Keynes to create a street scene that would be typical of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Visitors enter the street from the farmhouse and pass by recreations of the earliest types of "shop", when people sold their wares from their own homes or from carts and barrows on the street. 

WHAT'S ON DISPLAY

The main part of the street uses original shop fronts collected by the museum from local towns and villages.

The street scene currently includes:

Lacemaker's Cottage Wheelwright's Workshop Cooper's (Barrel Maker) Workshop Market Stall Costermonger's Hand Cart The Angel Public House Cobbler's Shop Dentist's Village Post Office Ironmonger's General Store Chemist's Shop Butcher's Shop Clothes Shop Local Cinema Parish Church

FIND OUT MORE

Each shop is furnished with items from the museum's collection, including artefacts, display cabinets, packaging and advertising materials.