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.
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, | |
Broadway Gallery | Letchworth | Art | website, Visual arts organisations, part of the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation. | |
Bushey Museum | Bushey | Multiple | Local history, culture, art | |
Cromer Windmill | Cromer | Mill | ||
Dacorum Heritage Trust | 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 working 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 Palace | | Hatfield | Historic house Royal Palace | 17th century Jacobean house and gardens 15th medieval Tudor style |
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 | |
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 at One Garden City | Letchworth | History | website, Focusing on local history and showcasing items from the Garden City Collection | |
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, opening in 2019, 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 | |
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 | |
South Mill Arts (previously Rhodes Arts Complex) | Bishop's Stortford | Multiple | Includes an art gallery and the Bishop's Stortford Museum with local history exhibits, and personal artefacts and collections of Cecil Rhodes | |
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 | Artefacts and remains of the 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 artefacts | |
Hertfordshire is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For government statistical purposes, it forms part of the East of England region.
Hitchin is a market town and unparished area in the North Hertfordshire district in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 35,842.
Baldock is a historic market town and unparished area in the local government district of North Hertfordshire in the county of Hertfordshire, England, where the River Ivel rises. It lies 33 miles (53 km) north of London, 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Bedford, and 14 miles (23 km) north northwest of the county town of Hertford. Nearby towns include Royston to the northeast, Letchworth and Hitchin to the southwest and Stevenage to the south.
Buntingford is a market town and civil parish in the district of East Hertfordshire and county of Hertfordshire in England. It lies next to the River Rib and is located on the historic Roman road, Ermine Street. As a result of its location, it grew mainly as a staging post with many coaching inns and has an 18th-century one-cell prison known as The Cage, by the ford at the end of Church Street. It has a population of 6,844, as of the 2020 UK Census.
North Hertfordshire is one of ten local government districts in the county of Hertfordshire, England. Its council is based in Letchworth. The district borders East Hertfordshire, Stevenage, Welwyn Hatfield, St Albans, Central Bedfordshire, Luton, and South Cambridgeshire.
North East Hertfordshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Oliver Heald, a Conservative.
Hitchin was a parliamentary constituency in Hertfordshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
Hitchin Rural District was a rural district in Hertfordshire, England from 1894 to 1974, covering an area in the north of the county.
Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It is noted for being the first garden city. The population at the time of the 2011 census was 33,249.
Letchworth Museum and Art Gallery was a museum in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England. It had permanent displays dedicated to the natural history of North Hertfordshire, including the famous black squirrel, as well as its archaeology from remote prehistory to the turn of the twentieth century.
The Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery was a local history museum in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, with an extensive collection that told the story of the town’s social history and of the rural industries that contributed to its prosperity.
North Hertfordshire Museum, displays collections relating to local history and heritage. It is located adjacent to the refurbished Hitchin Town Hall on Brand Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
Krysia Nowak, also known as Krysia Danuta Michna-Nowak, is a British painter and designer of Polish descent, working in mixed media.
Hitchin Town Hall is a municipal structure in Brand Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Hitchin Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.
After a lot of heartache we have decided to downsize the centre to a small display in the foyer of the Manor House.
This museum has now closed while staff work towards the re-development of the new North Hertfordshire Museum