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Museums & Galleries in Hertfordshire
From local history to serious collections, here\'s what\'s worth your time around Hertfordshire — think Hatfield Bunker, Shaw's Corner and Mill Green Museum & Working Mill — with distances and visitor reviews to choose by.
Museums & Galleries
2.4 mi from Hertfordshire
Hatfield Bunker
Hatfield Bunker sits beneath what is now Hatfield Police Station, on the former site of the de Havilland Aircraft Company. A single staircase near a marble entrance leads down to f...
2.6 mi from Hertfordshire
Shaw's Corner
George Bernard Shaw's Villa. Shaw's Corner was the country home of playwright Bernard Shaw for 44 years
2.7 mi from Hertfordshire
Mill Green Museum & Working Mill
Mill Green Museum & Working Mill is an 18th century restored watermill in Hertfordshire, still powered by the river Lea as part of a 1,000 year milling history on the site. You can...
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4.5 mi from Hertfordshire
St Albans Organ Theatre
St Albans Organ Theatre, run by the St Albans Musical Museum Society, is a mechanical organ and organ museum where you can see and hear restored instruments such as the Mortier, Bu...
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4.9 mi from Hertfordshire
St Albans South Signal Box Museum
St Albans South Signal Box Museum is a Grade II listed railway signal box restored by volunteers after years of decay. Inside, you can see the operating floor with its 44 levers, i...
5 mi from Hertfordshire
St Alban's Museum + Gallery
St Albans Museum + Gallery sits in St Albans and forms part of the wider St Albans Museums group, alongside Verulamium Museum and the Roman Hypocaust. Here you can explore cutting...
5.1 mi from Hertfordshire
Datchworth Museum
Datchworth Museum occupies the side door of an occupied Victorian cottage at Datchworth Green crossroads, next door but one to the Plough public house, in Hertfordshire. It opened...
5.5 mi from Hertfordshire
Verulamium Museum
Verulamium Museum sits on the site of one of Britain's largest Roman cities, and inside you'll find recreated Roman rooms and large-scale mosaics among its ancient treasures. It's...
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5.7 mi from Hertfordshire
The Hypocaust
The Hypocaust is an 1800-year-old Roman underfloor heating system, left in its original location within Verulamium Park rather than moved to a museum. You'll see the mosaic floor m...
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6.2 mi from Hertfordshire
De Havilland Aircraft Museum
This aviation museum at Salisbury Hall tells the story of the de Havilland company, home to three Mosquito aircraft and the fuselage of the Comet, the world's first jet airliner, w...
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6.4 mi from Hertfordshire
Redbourn Village Museum
Redbourn Village Museum is a small local history museum housed in Silk Mill House, a historic listed building on Redbourn Common, within the Museums & Galleries category. You can e...
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7.3 mi from Hertfordshire
Stevenage Museum
Stevenage Museum sits beneath St Andrew and St George's Church on St George's Way, close to the town centre and well signposted for pedestrians. Inside, you'll find exhibitions suc...
7.4 mi from Hertfordshire
Hertford Museum
Hertford Museum brings together over 100,000 objects covering archaeology, natural history, art, geology, world cultures, social history and the Hertfordshire Regiment, housed in a...
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7.6 mi from Hertfordshire
Potters Bar Museum
Potters Bar Museum traces the story of Potters Bar from a small village on the Great North Road to the town it is today. Housed at the Wyllyotts Centre, opposite the historic Wylly...
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8 mi from Hertfordshire
Celtic Harmony Camp
Celtic Harmony Camp is a reconstructed Iron Age settlement set in ancient woodland, where you can explore thatched roundhouses, including a large Chieftain Roundhouse with an open...
8.7 mi from Hertfordshire
Stockwood Discovery Centre
Stockwood Discovery Centre in Luton is a free-entry museum and garden attraction that brings together local history, one of Europe's largest carriage collections, and wide-ranging...
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9.3 mi from Hertfordshire
Ware Museum
Ware Museum tells the story of life in Ware from prehistoric times to the present day, with fascinating finds spread across four galleries. You can discover Roman remains and Medie...
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9.7 mi from Hertfordshire
Wardown Park Museum
Wardown House Museum and Gallery, formerly Wardown Park Museum and, before that, the Luton Museum & Art Gallery, in Luton, is housed in a large Victorian mansion in Wardown Park on... — Wikipedia
10 mi from Hertfordshire
Elstree and Borehamwood Museum
Elstree and Borehamwood Museum is an independent local history museum, run entirely by volunteers, which opened its doors in 2000 after growing out of a community history project....
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10.2 mi from Hertfordshire
British schools museum
The British Schools Museum occupies "the last surviving Monitorial Schoolroom in the world", a "grade II* listed building" that "opened in 1837" within a school "founded in 1810"....
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10.3 mi from Hertfordshire
The Paper Trail - The Paper Mill Museum
The Paper Trail - The Paper Mill Museum, also known as Frogmore Paper Mill, is the world's oldest mechanised paper mill, home to two historic Fourdrinier machines and still making...
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