A local history museum in an early 17th century town house, enhanced by a charming recreated 'Jacobean' knot garden of intertwined hedges of box and lavender.
The displays depict Hertford's historic past as a royal borough, market for a
large rural population and county town. It contains the Hertfordshire Regiment Collection.
There is a changing programme of temporary exhibitions and museum offers visitors
the chance to find out about the history of the county town of Hertfordshire.
"Forgotten Blues"
Closed 23rd-26th December, Good Friday and Easter Monday
Open New Year's Day 10am-5pm
Curator: Helen Gurney BA (Hons), Dip MGS
Curatorial Assistant: Margaret Harris
Administrator: Connie Taylor
Email: hertfordmuseum@btconnect.com
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An exhibition about Christ's Hospital School in Hertford - until 9th August
This exhibition, which is on the ground floor of the museum, has already spurred a great interest by a lot of former Christ's Hospital pupils, many of whom have an emotional attachment to the school that once operated in the centre of the town.
Christ's Hospital is a co-educational independent school and an educational charity now based in Horsham, West Sussex. Since the late 1600s, a large part of Christ's Hospital School existed in the centre of Hertford, as a boarding school for younger boys and also girls of all ages. From 1900 until 1985, this school catered solely for girls. The school was located at the far end of Fore Street and covered a large area of land running down the Ware Road (where Tesco is now situated).
Thousands of girls walked through those gates with the Bluecoat boys statues looking over them (which remain today) and spent 5-7 years of their lives living and breathing Christ's Hospital.
This exhibition traces the early development of the school and focuses a great deal on those memories of the girls and their teachers and their experience of being at Christ's Hospital.
Former pupils and staff have been interviewed by the Curator and their memories are available for visitors to listen to on special listening posts.
There are a number of interesting objects on display, some belonging to the museum in Bull Plain, including a monitor's token from 1791. A great number of objects and memorabilia have been kindly lent by the former pupils and teachers and the Christ's Hospital School museum down in Horsham.
When the school closed and the girls moved down to Horsham in 1985, many of the school buildings were demolished to make way for new housing developments and the Tesco store, which stands over what was once the playing fields, a chapel and a pool and gym, to mention but a few.
Helen Gurney, the Curator who wrote the exhibition says,
'When I mentioned that we were planning to do an exhibition about Christ's Hospital a while ago, many locals were intrigued. 
They said that they never really saw the girls and never really knew what went on beyond the red brick walls which surrounded the site. Well, now is their chance to find out! There are really two aims for doing this exhibition – the first is really to let the local community find out more about a school that occupied a prime position in the town for 300 years, but also, to show the 'old girls' that they definitely haven't been forgotten, and that they are always welcome to come back to our town to reminisce and I hope this will help them to bring back happy memories'