American Museum & Gardens - Travel Trade

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Exploring together

We warmly welcome group visits to the American Museum & Gardens and are looking forward to helping you plan a special day out at our unique estate on the edge of Bath. Group admission tickets give entry to the entire site, including the museum, exhibition, gardens, deli café and gallery shop.

Benefits for groups

- Discounted day tickets for groups of 10 or more

- The group organiser and/or coach driver are entitled to free entry

- Coach driver has a free drink and 20% discount in the deli

- Free all-day coach parking

- Dedicated groups booking manager

- Tours and activities just for you (booked in advance)

- Suggested itineraries

Garden tour

Our tours explore the main components of the best gardens in Bath:

- Our recently planted New American Garden.

- The Mount Vernon Garden, a reconstruction of part of George Washington’s garden in Virginia, created when the museum opened in the 1960s.

- The Arboretum, originally planted at Claverton in the 19th century.

- The original Italianate Garden designed by a Victorian owner of Claverton Manor, hidden below the Mount Vernon garden.

Garden tours tell the story of these stages in the evolution of our spectacular gardens. Tours last up to one hour with a maximum group size of 10 people. Tours are subject to availability and cost £5.50 per person, plus group admission, and must be booked in advance.

Museum tour

We are able to offer guided tours of the museum collections outside of normal opening hours, subject to availability, and at a cost of £5.50 per person plus group admission. Tours last a little over 1 hour and are limited to a maximum of 10 people per tour, so larger groups will be divided into smaller tour groups with staggered start times. All tours must start before 10.45am or after 3pm and must be booked in advance.

Textile tour

The American Museum & Gardens houses a world-famous collection of textiles, embroideries, weavings and prints, including a collection of over 200 historic quilts and rugs. If your group has a particular interest in cloth, then this specialised tour is ideal for you to learn about a wide variety of pieces in our period rooms, including fabrics, construction and social history. 

The tour lasts approximately 1 hour. Maximum group size is 10 people, but larger groups can be accommodated in back-to-back tours. All tours are subject to availability, at a cost of £5.50 per person plus group admission, and should be booked in advance.

Textile tour for quilters

The American Museum & Gardens houses a world-famous collection of textiles, embroideries, weavings and prints, including a collection of over 200 historic quilts and rugs. If your group has a particular interest in cloth, then this specialised tour is ideal for you to learn about a wide variety of pieces in our period rooms, including fabrics, construction and social history. This tour ends with 15 minutes in the Textile Room, where our quilt collection is on display.

The tour lasts approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes. Maximum group size is 10 people, but larger groups can be accommodated in back-to-back tours. All tours are subject to availability, at a cost of £5.50 per person plus group admission, and should be booked in advance.

Audio-descriptive tours

We welcome groups to the American Museum & Gardens who are blind or partially sighted. Specialised tours are arranged which last approximately 1½ hours. These include a dedicated guide and a selection of handling objects which enhance the descriptive tour. Wheelchairs can be accommodated. Maximum group size is 6 people, usually 3 blind or partially-sighted people and their helpers.

Curious About Quilts session – limited availability

Curious about Quilts sessions are an amazing opportunity to view up close some of our quilts not on display in the museum and learn more about the history of quilt making in America. 

These sessions can be booked during normal opening hours, are subject to availability, and at a cost of £5.50 per person plus group admission. Sessions last approximately 1 hour and are limited to a maximum of 15 people per session, although larger groups can be accommodated with multiple sessions (allowing for approximately 1 between sessions for reset). All Curious about Quilts sessions should be booked in advance.

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Booking Information:

Name of trade contact: Naomi Grit

Trade email address: groups@americanmuseum.org

Trade Tel: 01225 460 503

Opening Dates: The American Museum & Gardens is open Tuesday to Sunday each week from mid-February to the start of the January term for Bath & North East Somerset schools (4 January in 2026). We are also open on Bank Holidays and Mondays during Bath & North East Somerset school holidays. 

The specific opening times for different parts of our site are:

- Car park, Exhibition Gallery, Gardens, Gallery Shop: 10am–5pm (last entry 4.30pm)

- American Garden Deli: 10am–4pm

- Museum: 11am–4pm (last entry 3pm)

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Trade Rates including Group/FIT/ commission rates (% discounts): 

30% off general admission for the full-site ticket

Access to Garden only tickets. Dynamic pricing upon request.

10% off guided tours

Free gingerbread with Christmas tickets

10% off venue hire (day delegate packages not included in discount)

Free coach parking, full-site ticket, coffee or tea and 20% discount in deli café for the coach driver

FIT

12% off general admission for the full-site ticket

Guided tour can be requested at minimum spend of £25.00.

Min group size: 10

Languages: English

Duration of visit: For lunch stop or gardens only visit: 1-2 hours. Full site visit: 3-6 hours

Coach Parking: Free and in front of manor house

Suitable for Education / Corporate / Incentive visits:  Yes, all

Additional Information eg.:

- Sustainable info: The American Museum & Gardens is committed to regenerative tourism and stewardship of the land that we own: https://www.americanmuseum.org/about/environmental-sustainability

- Accessible for all info: Our site is fully accessible, for all accessibility info, visit: https://www.americanmuseum.org/visit/accessibility/