Museums in Hertfordshire

An early Victorian school on Queen Street in Hitchin has been transformed into a fascinating museum of British education and childhood. The museum highlight is the unaltered 1837 Monitorial Classroom, built to hold 300 students and 30 monitors under a single Master.
41/42 Queen Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, SG4 9TS

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Heritage Highlight: The unaltered 1837 Monitorial Classroom

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An early 17th-century townhouse with 18th-century facade houses a fascinating museum of local history. Behind the museum is a beautifully recreated Jacobean knot garden.
18, Bull Plain, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, SG14 1DT

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Heritage Highlight: The historic museum building itself!

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Mill Green Mill is a restored 18th-century corn mill on the River Lea, on a site where milling has taken place for 1,000 years. The mill is in full working order and you can watch grain being milled several days per week using the original water wheel. The former miller's house is now a fascinating museum of local history.
Bush Hall Lane, Mill Green, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, AL9 5PD

Attraction Type: Museum - Mill
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Heritage Highlight: Restored 18th-century wooden mill mechanism

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A working museum of the four generations of Page blacksmiths who operated a forge here from 1811 until 1983. Behind the museum is a Victorian garden dedicated to the culture of such plants as would have been grown in the 19th century.
High Street, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, England, SG10 6BS

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The extensive zoological collection of the 2nd Baron Rothschild was opened to the public in 1892 and is now an outstation of the Natural History Museum in London. Over 4000 species from around the world are on show in a series of 6 galleries. "Bizarre, rare and beautiful"!
Walter Rothschild Building, Akeman Street, Tring, Hertfordshire, England, HP23 6AP

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Heritage Highlight: Astonishing Victorian taxidermy collections

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A small museum with a big history! The Signal Box was built in 1892 to operate signals on the Midlands Railway line extension from London between Harpenden and Napsbury. See the restored 44-lever frame, try your hand at signalling and enjoy a museum of railway ephemera on the ground floor.
St Albans Signal Box Preservation Trust, 5 Ridgmont Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, AL1 3AG

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Heritage Highlight: The only restored Midland Railway signal box in its original location

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