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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s Experience | Living | website, 1940s period home during World War II, history of RAF Bushey Hall; part of the Lincolnsfields Children's Centre | ||
| Art | website, part of the University of Hertfordshire | |||
| Ashwell Village Museum | Local | website, local history | ||
| Baldock Museum | Local | website, local history | ||
| Education | Complex of schools showing education in Britain from 1810 until 1969, Victorian life, | |||
| Broadway Gallery | Art | website, Visual arts organisations, part of the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation. | ||
| Multiple | Local history, culture, art | |||
| Mill | ||||
| Dacorum Heritage Trust | Local | information, local history, based in a museum store in Berkhamsted, open by appointment | ||
| Datchworth Museum | Local | information, local history, located in a former blacksmith's shop | ||
| Aviation | Formerly the Mosquito Aircraft Museum, restored de Havilland military aircraft | |||
| Local | website, local history | |||
| Industry | Industrial 'exploration' centre built around a working paper mill | |||
| Historic house | Palladian mansion and adjacent ruins of older house | |||
| International Garden Cities Exhibition | History | website, story of the Garden city movement and Letchworth’s legacy and influence on town planning across the world | ||
| | Historic house Royal Palace | 17th century Jacobean house and gardens 15th medieval Tudor style | ||
| Art | Estate with sculptures by Henry Moore and his studios | |||
| Local | Local history, culture, art | |||
| Historic house | Victorian Tudor Gothic house, gardens and grounds | |||
| Local | website, local social history, geology | |||
| Mill | Working water-driven 18th-century flour mill and local history museum | |||
| Museum at One Garden City | History | website, Focusing on local history and showcasing items from the Garden City Collection | ||
| Local | Local history, archaeology, art | |||
| Historic house | website, working blacksmith forge, Victorian cottage and garden | |||
| Natural history | Formerly the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, features stuffed mammals, birds, reptiles and insects | |||
| Multiple | website, opening in 2019, local history, culture | |||
| Potters Bar Museum | Local | information, local history | ||
| Redbourn Museum | Local | website, local history, located in a former silk mill | ||
| Mill | Working water-driven flour mill | |||
| Royston & District Museum and Art Gallery | Multiple | website, local history, art, ceramics and glass, archaeology | ||
| Historic house | Operated by National Trust, home of playwright George Bernard Shaw | |||
| South Mill Arts (previously Rhodes Arts Complex) | 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 | Music | website, theater organs and mechanical musical instruments | ||
| Local | website, local history, culture | |||
| Three Rivers Museum | Local | website, local history, culture | ||
| Tring | Local | Local history | ||
| Archaeology | Artefacts and remains of the Roman city | |||
| Local | website, local history, culture | |||
| Local | ||||
| Archaeology | Ruins of Roman baths and other artefacts | |||