The museum is located in the centre of Stockwood park in South Luton. It displays rural life, trades and crafts. It also houses the Mossman collection of horse-drawn carriages and a gallery of vintage cars, bicycles and trams.
Don't miss the Dutch Garden, Hamilton Sculpture Garden, Winter Garden, Period gardens and National plant collections.
Luton Museums and Galleries
Visiting the Museum
Stockwood park museum is a bit like the rabbits tunnel in Alice and Wonderland. You don't realize how big and enchanting it is from the entrance.
The first thing to see is the bee display upstairs. Here they have an actual working bee hive with a glass window so you can see the day to day activities of bee society. The bees use a sealed wooded passage to enter the hive from outside. There are displays of antique bee hives and equipment used in the extraction of honey.
Out in the courtyard is the craft museum display. Here you will find tools and equipment used in wood working, straw making, as well as a blacksmiths shop and cobbler. In the Archway there is a restored Gypsy caravan which you can climb the stairs to and have a peek at its quaint victorian interior.
Leaving the craft area you enter the sculpture garden an enchanted place where you can loose yourself in imagination. You might just see the white rabbit or mad hatter!
Outside the garden there are splendid rolling lawns that would do any manor house proud.
In the lawns there is a separate enclosure for the Mosman carriage collection and a Tea Room.
Admission is free! But visit the shop where you will find some interesting books on Luton's history.
