[1] The museum is normally open from March to December, on Tuesday mornings from 10 to 12am and Sunday afternoons from 2 to 4-30pm and is located behind the Methodist Chapel in the High Street, nearest postcode is HP17 8ES.

The enthusiasm shown by local people who loaned historic items for, or attended, the exhibition indicated that a museum would be a popular venture.

Following an inaugural public meeting in June 1998 and having secured a lease with the Methodist Church, the museum opened in the Chapel's Old Schoolroom on 1 November 1998.

[1] On 1 November 2008 the museum celebrated its 10th anniversary which included a display of vintage vehicles and costumed members of the Haddenham Players adding an historic falour to the event.

To further its aims the museum collects information, photographs and artefacts‘the buildings and lands, the inhabitants and their livelihoods, the tools of their trades, stories and events that make up the history of the village’.