Explore the collections

Like most museums, our collections include objects from many different disciplines as well as some unexpected and highly specialised areas.

Archaeology collection Collecting archaeological finds since 1914	Football collection Find out more about our football collection, begun in 1952	Pharmacy collection The Perks and Llewellyn pharmacy in Hitchin stood in High Street until 1961
Fine Art collection Our art collections principally include works by local artists	Archive collection Including photographs, postcards, letters and cartes-de-visite	Ceramic and Glass collections Our wide collection of ceramic and glass spans a period of well over 2000 years
Natural History and Geology collections The natural history collections span almost two hundred years	Costume collection Thought to be the largest collection of its kind in Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire Yeomanry collection The collection contains uniforms, badges, weapons and other militaria
Ethnographic collection Objects and curios that illustrate the history of the world	Photography collection An extensive photographic collection dating from the mid-1850s onward	Social History collection Objects illustrating the social history of the past four or more centuries
Numismatic collection We have a large collection of British and foreign coins