The Museum and Gardens will be open during our normal winter opening hours from 11am to 3pm, Tuesday-Sunday, with last entry to the museum and gardens at 2pm. You are welcome to visit us during the day, although this will require a separate ticket available for purchase on site at our ticket office at the time of arrival.
Please note daytime visitors to the Museum and Gardens can park in the museum’s own car park free of charge, while parking for evening visitors to The Enchanted Garden of Light will be at the University of Bath and must be booked with their tickets. Daytime visitors must make sure they have booked a parking space with their tickets for the lights trail in the evening. If you have visited during the daytime, please return to your car, and vacate the museum’s car park by 3pm. Please drive to the car park at the University of Bath for your evening parking space. Please note there may be some time before your parking at the University is available. Please see more information on parking below.
Our temporary exhibition Hatching the Past: American Dinosaur Explorers is open for daytime visitors only, until 31st December 2022. A captivating experience for all ages, Hatching the Past invites visitors to touch real dinosaur bones and reconstructed nests, dig for eggs in our interactive dig pits, and view animated video presentations. Further information about Hatching the Past can be found on our website at www.americanmuseum.org/exhibitions
The Museum itself, located in the Manor House, will be open for daytime visitors only, and will be dressed for Christmas throughout December with some festive decorations in the stairwells, and passageways, and our unmissable and magnificent Christmas tree in the atrium hallway.
Please note that the Museum and Gardens will be closed during the day on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day. Further information about daytime opening hours and ticket prices can be found on our website at www.americanmuseum.org/visit