Museums and galleries

Heritage Services operate a variety of museums, art galleries, heritage centres and a mobile museum. A number of specialised services are also available. With the exception of the mobile museum, admission to museums, galleries and heritage centres is free of charge. Some charges apply for special events and some special services.

Hereford Museum and Art Gallery in Broad Street (opposite the Cathedral) offers a variety of displays with changing themes, and presents between six to eight art exhibitions a year.

In addition to routine exhibitions and displays at all sites, events, talks and courses also take place. More information on these is obtainable from Hereford Museum.

01432 260692
herefordmuseums@herefordshire.gov.uk

 

We offer the following sessions:

• Tudor Hearth & Home (KS2)
• Toys (KS1)
• Victorian Country Classroom (KS2)
• Digging up the Romans (KS2)
• The Material Museum (KS1)
• Characteristics of Materials (KS2)
• Forces in Action (KS2)
• Britain Since 1948 (KS2)
• Evacuees (KS2)
• Know Your Newtons (KS2)

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We provide services for secondary schools, colleges and lifelong learning groups.

This mobile museum brings history to the people of Herefordshire. The displays include many hands-on elements. The current display commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery. You may be surprised to find how the history of Herefordshire links in with this topic.

MOM can be booked by schools, villages, community groups and interested organisations.

For further information call Heritage Services on 01432 260692 or e-mail herefordmuseums@herefordshire.gov.uk

Heritage Services staff may be able to identify objects for you or provide expert advice on the care of historic and natural history specimens.

Heritage Services staff may be able to assist with local heritage projects events and museums.

You may be interested to visit the Web pages of Herefordshire Lore, an organisation that collects reminiscences. Recent work has been concerned with munitions workers.

Do you remember the games you used to play when you were a child? Perhaps you would like to take part in this interesting research project.

River Tales

Have you lived, worked or played alongside or in one of Herefordshire’s four main rivers, the Wye, the Lugg, the Arrow or the Frome? What do you remember of other rivers?

We’ve made notes of some lovely stories during an on-going series of 50 reminiscence workshops being held across the county in this Age Concern Herefordshire and Worcestershire project, and some of the stories will be recorded on video. Among the things people have been speaking about are fishing, farms, wildlife, boating, swimming, picnics and of course the floods!

When the project finishes in 2007 notes from the workshops will be kept at Hereford Record Office and a River Tales DVD made using interviews with some of the participants. This will tell the story of the four main rivers as they pass through the county from different perspectives over a lifetime. Three schools projects will be incorporated into the production of the DVD and it will be available in schools, information centres and local libraries in Herefordshire.

If your group would like a workshop or you have interesting photographs or stories to tell about the Wye, the Frome, the Arrow or the Lugg, please contact: Katya Coupland, Field of Vision, telephone: 01568 760 545, email: rivers@fieldofvision.co.uk