Milton Keynes Museum is an independent

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in the parish of

Wolverton and Greenleys Wolverton and Greenleys is a civil parish with a town council in Milton Keynes, England. It is north-west of Central Milton Keynes, and according to the 2011 census had a population of 12,492. It includes Wolverton, Old Wolverton, Wolverton ...

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. It is mostly run by volunteers with a small number of paid staff. MiltonKeynesHoard

The museum is housed in a former Victorian farmstead. It covers the history of the Milton Keynes area, including northern

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and southern

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, from the year 1800 onwards. It includes the Stacey Hill Collection of rural life, consisting of agricultural, domestic, industrial, and social objects connected to the area before the 1967 foundation of Milton Keynes. There is also a collection of many memorabilia of the nearby

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. The museum's ''Connected Earth'' collection includes a variety of historic

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s and switchboards, many still in working order. The museum also has some historic

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and

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vehicles. The largest of these is the ''Road Phone'', an enormous working telephone used for promotional purposes. The museum was previously called the Stacey Hill Museum.Milton Keynes Museum TrustQype
UK.

Location

The museum is on the southern outskirts of Wolverton, just off H2 Miller's Way at McConnell Drive.

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