List of museums in Hertfordshire
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This list of museums in Hertfordshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
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Name | Image | Town/City | Type | Summary |
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1940s Experience | Bushey | Living | website, 1940s period home during World War II, history of RAF Bushey Hall; part of the Lincolnsfields Children's Centre | |
Art and Design Gallery | Hatfield | Art | website, part of the University of Hertfordshire | |
Ashwell Village Museum | Ashwell | Local | website, local history | |
Baldock Museum | Baldock | Local | website, local history | |
British Schools Museum | Hitchin | Education | Complex of schools showing education in Britain from 1810 until 1969, Victorian life, | |
Bushey Museum | Bushey | Multiple | Local history, culture, art | |
Cromer Windmill | Cromer | Mill | ||
Dacorum Heritage Trust Ltd | Dacorum | Local | information, local history, based in a museum store in Berkhamsted, open by appointment | |
Datchworth Museum | Datchworth | Local | information, local history, located in a former blacksmith's shop | |
de Havilland Aircraft Museum | London Colney | Aviation | Formerly the Mosquito Aircraft Museum, restored de Havilland military aircraft | |
Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum | Borehamwood | Local | website, local history | |
Frogmore Paper Mill | Hemel Hempstead | Industry | Industrial 'exploration' centre built around a former paper mill | |
Gorham House | St Albans | Historic house | Palladian mansion and adjacent ruins of older house | |
International Garden Cities Exhibition | Letchworth | History | website, story of the Garden city movement and Letchworth’s legacy and influence on town planning across the world | |
Hatfield House | Hatfield | Historic house | 17th century Jacobean house and gardens | |
Henry Moore Perry Green | Much Hadham | Art | Estate with sculptures by Henry Moore and his studios | |
Hertford Museum | Hertford | Local | Local history, culture, art | |
Knebworth House | Knebworth | Historic house | Victorian Tudor Gothic house, gardens and grounds | |
ICAS - Vilas Fine Art | Letchworth | Art | website, International Contemporary art and sculpture exhibitions, John W. Mills National Heritage Arts | |
Letchworth Arts Centre | Letchworth | Art | website, art exhibitions, live shows, and arts-related courses | |
Lowewood Museum | Hoddesdon | Local | website, local social history, geology | |
Mill Green Museum | Hatfield | Mill | Working water-driven 18th-century flour mill and local history museum | |
Museum of St Albans | St Albans | Local | Local history, archaeology, art | |
Much Hadham Forge Museum | Much Hadham | Historic house | website, working blacksmith forge, Victorian cottage and garden | |
Natural History Museum at Tring | Tring | Natural history | Formerly the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, features stuffed mammals, birds, reptiles and insects | |
North Hertfordshire Museum | Hitchin | Multiple | website, planned opening in 2016, local history, culture | |
Potters Bar Museum | Potters Bar | Local | information, local history | |
Redbourn Museum | Redbourn | Local | website, local history, located in a former silk mill | |
Redbournbury Mill | Redbourn | Mill | Working water-driven flour mill | |
Rhodes Arts Complex | Bishop's Stortford | Multiple | Includes an art gallery and the Bishop's Stortford Museum with local history exhibits, and personal artifacts and collections of Cecil Rhodes | |
Royston & District Museum and Art Gallery | Royston | Multiple | website, local history, art, ceramics and glass, archaeology | |
Shaw's Corner | Ayot St Lawrence | Historic house | Operated by National Trust, home of playwright George Bernard Shaw | |
St Albans Organ Theatre | St Albans | Music | website, theater organs and mechanical musical instruments | |
Stevenage Museum | Stevenage | Local | website, local history, culture | |
Three Rivers Museum | Rickmansworth | Local | website, local history, culture | |
Tring Local History Museum | Tring | Local | Local history | |
Verulamium Museum | St Albans | Archaeology | Artifacts and remains of the ancient Roman city | |
Ware Museum | Ware | Local | website, local history, culture | |
Watford Museum | Watford | Local | Local history, culture, fine art, firefighting, Watford F.C. | |
Welwyn Roman Baths | Welwyn | Archaeology | Ruins of Roman baths and other artifacts | |
Defunct museums
- Buntingford Heritage Centre, Buntingford[1]
- Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery, Hitchin, closed in 2012, collections transferred to North Hertfordshire Museum
- Kingsbury Watermill, no longer a museum, now a restaurant
- Letchworth Museum & Art Gallery, Letchworth, closed in 2012, collections transferred to North Hertfordshire Museum[2]
See also
- Category:Visitor attractions in Hertfordshire
References
- ↑ "Buntingford Heritage Centre". Buntingford. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
After a lot of heartache we have decided to downsize the centre to a small display in the foyer of the Manor House.
- ↑ "Letchworth Museum". Letchworth Garden City Local & Tourist Information Centre. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
This museum has now closed while staff work towards the re-development of the new North Hertfordshire Museum, scheduled to open in Hitchin Town Hall in 2014.
- Hertfordshire Museums - partnership of county museums
- Hertfordshire Council: Local museums
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