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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

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