The International Garden Cities Exhibition

The International Garden Cities Exhibition The International Garden Cities Exhibition is currently closed during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Furthermore the museum team are now on furlough so we will not be able to respond to any queries or comments until we return, sorry. This December 2016 we will be open every Saturday 10-5
(We will close Xmas Eve and between Christmas and New Year)

Normal opening hours - every Friday and Saturday 10-5 - resume on 6th Jan 2017

And open by appointment during the week for private or group visits, meetings, seminars etc - just get in touch to find out more or book your visit.

Letchworth Walking ToursWant to get to know Letchworth Garden City better? Join our Heritage Manager, Josh Tidy, on one ...
28/07/2023

Letchworth Walking Tours

Want to get to know Letchworth Garden City better?
Join our Heritage Manager, Josh Tidy, on one of our 'Historic Highlights' Walking Tours...

Each walk lasts about two hours, starts and finishes at The Museum at One Garden City, and comprises a leisurely stroll around some of Letchworth's early houses, public buildings, open spaces and hidden places.

They're on different days and times so there should be something to suit your diary.

Tickets are £10 each and every penny goes directly towards much-needed funding for your museum service, so you can support Arts, Culture and Heritage provision in the town, whilst learning about the first Garden City and meeting a dozen or so like-minded people...

Click the link to see the dates and book tickets

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/letchworth-garden-city-walking-tours-2432709?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Please vote for the Garden City Collection! 🗳️ 🙏 🐾
13/01/2023

Please vote for the Garden City Collection! 🗳️ 🙏 🐾

Special offer in our online shop!….
26/11/2022

Special offer in our online shop!….

Free Exhibition here at The International Garden Cities Exhibition, by our group of Young Curators - part of a project g...
22/10/2022

Free Exhibition here at The International Garden Cities Exhibition, by our group of Young Curators - part of a project generously supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund

Open Monday 24th 10-2
Wednesday 26th 10-2
Thursday 27th evening 6-8
Friday 28th 10-2
Saturday 29th 10-5

Great for half term - bring the family

22/10/2022
Come and visit us!… 👋
19/10/2022

Come and visit us!… 👋

26/07/2022

Barry Parker pays tribute to his partner and brother-in-law, Raymond Unwin, in The Citizen on this day, July 26th 1940.

“No-one entered more completely, heartily and hopefully into the rather pioneer life we then lived than the Unwins”



http://www.gardencitycollection.com/object-lbm4069-4

07/11/2021

'Barry Parker 1867-1947 Architecture of Harmony, Sunlight & Equality', by Vicky Axell Many years in the making (researching, writing) this brand new volume shines a light on the work of Letchworth Garden City co-Master Planner and Chief Architect, Barry Parker, examining both his work at Letchworth....

26/08/2021

Join artist Feral Practice on Saturday September 4th to explore human-plant connection among some of Letchworth’s parks and wilder spaces. Be My Mother, I Said to the Trees is part of the Broadway Gallery’s autumn programme of exhibitions and events investigating the intersection between nature and culture. As part of this diverse exploration Feral Practice will lead two of their spoken word participatory performances - Phytocentric and Mycorrhizal Meditation.

We invite you to bring a personal story or favourite poem/text about your connection to trees and plants. And a picnic lunch, that you might choose to enhance with edible plants as part of our foraging walk led by London based forager Izzy Johnston.

Mother Trees are large, highly connected trees that play an important role in the flow of information and resources in a forest. Feral Practice will draw on scientific, artistic and more esoteric methods of interspecies communication to suggest how we might connect to trees as persons, teachers, guardians, kin. Vibrant material meetings and exchanges occur at every level of our bodies and worlds but often go un-regarded, or unknown. If we sensitize ourselves (as vegetal philosopher Michael Marder advises) to the fuzzy edges of our subjectivity in order to meet beings very different to ourselves, might it be in the ‘wilds’ of the imagination that we can better re-align with nonhuman nature?

Participants will be drawn into porous visual and sonic connectivity with the plant and fungal world through active listening exercises, participatory performances, solo work, and speculative improvisations. Together, we will seek to listen towards and speak from this lively world beyond the human.

We will be working outdoors for part of the day, so please dress appropriately for the weather, and bring suncream/umbrella as required. We will be walking for a while, slowly, mostly on fairly level ground but also through the wilder areas of parks. If you have access questions please ask and we will do our best to accommodate you.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sonic-fields-02-feral-practice-be-my-mother-i-said-to-the-trees-tickets-167623615747

Join us in Howard Gardens, and in the lovely garden at The International Garden Cities Exhibition *this Thursday* for th...
24/08/2021

Join us in Howard Gardens, and in the lovely garden at The International Garden Cities Exhibition *this Thursday* for this gentle family fun morning…
Tickets are FREE but must be booked in advance (follow the link)

Fun family art & history activities all relating to the statue of Sappho in Howard Gardens

17/07/2021
30/11/2020

We are re-opening! Again!
Join us again this Saturday 10am-5pm for our second attempt at re-opening our magnificent micro-museum!

There are various measures in place to keep you safe and we’ll need to ask you to wear a mask, retain social distancing and not to mix different household groups, but we have lots of fascinating stuff, two different family trails and you can even click-and-collect items from our new online shop (details coming soon)!

No need to book a ticket, just come along... we hope to see you this Saturday 👍🏻

31/08/2020

It’s a strong field in this year’s Hertfordshire Museums’ ‘Object of the Year’ Award - we’re looking at you, adorable stuffed dog, Steiff monkey toy and entire working mill!! - but we think you should vote for us (the reigning champions!) with our toiletry tribute to our cultural comrades in the theatre industry 🎭



https://www.hertfordshiremuseums.org.uk/object-of-the-year-2020.aspx

A quick update about the Museum ServiceAs you may know it has been a hugely challenging time for Letchworth Garden City ...
28/08/2020

A quick update about the Museum Service

As you may know it has been a hugely challenging time for Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, with the Covid-19 crisis having a devastating impact on its resources, and consequently its ability to provide services such as ours.

A strategic review looked at a number of services run by the Foundation, including the Museum Service.

The Museum service comprises (1) the Garden City Collection, accredited by the Arts Council with over 250,000 objects relating to the history of Letchworth and Garden Cities; (2) the Museum at One Garden City, our ‘micro museum’ which opened in the building that also houses HF head office in June 2019 and showcases that collection and explores the social history of the town; and (3) The International Garden Cities Exhibition, a visitor centre and display located in the 1907 Arts & Crafts building designed by Barry Parker & Raymond Unwin as their drawing offices.

Sadly we have had to change the way we operate and are funded, with the team reduced to a single post along with a new urgent need for the service to cover its costs, via income generation and external fundraising.

We started this year in fantastic shape – securely funded, a clear strategy, exciting plans, a happy team, some freshly-won awards – and this change in circumstance has obviously been devastating.

Whilst this has been a heartbreaking process, we hope this can eventually be an opportunity for the service. We want to create a truly participatory service, with a really direct relationship with – and content co-curated by – you, our community, the fine people of this wonderful town (both past and present) (hello, Letchworth diaspora!).

In these trying times, we have been extremely grateful to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, to whom we applied for and successfully received some much-needed emergency funding to cover some activity for the remainder of 2020. We are also hugely grateful to both SHARE Museums East and Hertfordshire Association of Museums for some earlier funding which allowed us to begin to pick that path forward.

We’re sorry we haven’t been able to communicate this in more detail up until now, but we felt we shouldn’t do so while the strategic review and staff consultations were taking place.
We are looking forward to safely welcoming you back to The Museum at One Garden City later in September, and hope you will take the opportunity to come and see what we have on display, whether you’re returning or visiting for the first time…

Hopefully you'll have noticed we have been trying to maintain a strong presence on social media - we love to share the rich history of this unique town as widely as possible, and have been so very encouraged by the great response our recent output has been receiving.

We absolutely welcome any future ideas, both for sharing online and in the physical space in our micro museum, and hope to be able to share some initiatives for you to get more formally involved in the coming weeks and months.

We are your museum. We’re here to tell your stories and celebrate our town.
We don’t have a huge grand building with pillars and porticoes, but we do have a huge and fascinating collection of objects, plans, photographs and ephemera.
We do have a compact and family-friendly display space at our free micro museum.
And we continue to care for and look after the unique building on Norton Way South.

We want to tell everyone’s stories. If you want to help us tell your story of Letchworth Garden City, we want to hear from you.
We may need to ask for your help in the future.

And we definitely want to work with you on content and activities moving forward. Get in touch, or just watch this space, for details of how.

And keep clicking, liking, commenting & sharing, and visiting in person, and keep being interested in this wonderful town...

11/05/2020

While we're closed, we thought it might be fun to share a series of little videos we made welcoming you to The International Garden Cities Exhibition, with our Curator, Josh.

Here's the last one, welcoming you to our Reading Room...

We hope you've enjoyed these clips, and look forward to offering you a proper warm welcome when you come and visit once we're open again...

08/05/2020

04/05/2020

Here's the latest in our series of little videos we made welcoming you to The International Garden Cities Exhibition, with our Curator, Josh.

Here, we look atthe wonderful stained glass windows in Barry Parker's private office...

We'll be posting these every week or so for the next few months while we're off on furough - we hope you enjoy them, and look forward to offering you a proper warm welcome when you come and visit once we're open again...

27/04/2020

Welcome to the latest in our series of little videos in which our Curator, Josh, introduces you to The International Garden Cities Exhibition.

Here, take a look inside Barry Parker's private office...

We'll be posting these every week or so for the next few months while we're off on furough - we hope you enjoy them, and look forward to offering you a proper warm welcome when you come and visit once we're open again...

20/04/2020

In the latest in our series of little videos welcoming you to The International Garden Cities Exhibition, our Curator, Josh shows you our corridor timeline...

We'll be posting these every week or so for the next few months while we're off on furough - we hope you enjoy them, and look forward to offering you a proper warm welcome when you come and visit once we're open again...

13/04/2020

While we're closed, we thought it might be fun to share a series of little videos we made welcoming you to The International Garden Cities Exhibition, with our Curator, Josh.

Here, we take a closer look at the main drawing office.

We'll be posting these every week or so for the next few months while we're off on furough - we hope you enjoy them, and look forward to offering you a proper warm welcome when you come and visit once we're open again...

06/04/2020

While we're closed, we thought it might be fun to share a series of little videos we made welcoming you to The International Garden Cities Exhibition, with our Curator, Josh.

Here, we start with looking at our beautiful Arts & Crafts building from the outside, before future clips head inside to explore our interiors...

We'll be posting these every week or so for the next few months while we're off on furough - we hope you enjoy them, and look forward to offering you a proper warm welcome when you come and visit once we're open again...

Please note we are currently CLOSED due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Furthermore, the Museum team is on furlough...
06/04/2020

Please note we are currently CLOSED due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
Furthermore, the Museum team is on furlough for the immediately foreseeable future, so whilst we have content scheduled to be published over the next few months, we will be unable to respond to questions or comments while we're off.
Stay safe, stay home, and see you on the other side :)

30/03/2020

Day 8 of our & H is for... Heals, the London furniture makers who from 1905 produced a ‘Letchworth’ range to furnish the Arts and Crafts cottages in Letchworth Garden City, as beautifully illustrated here in one of their early catalogues. Heals are of course still going strong too, still on Tottenham Court Road as they were in 1905!

28/03/2020

Day 6 of our and F is for... ‘Foursquare Our City’, Letchworth Garden City’s wonderful Arts and Crafts style banner, designed & made by the St Edmundsbury Weaving Works, and based on a poem ‘The Building’ by Henry Bryan Binns.

28/03/2020

Spring is definitely in the air in this March 1957 issue of 'Threads', the house journal of Letchworth-based corset manufacturer, Spirella.

26/03/2020

Created by architects Robert Bennett and Wilson Bidwell, this design for the new Letchworth Council Offices was presented to the general public in The Citizen newspaper in March 1934.

Can you help us document what’s happening for future generations?...
25/03/2020

Can you help us document what’s happening for future generations?...

We understand that this is becoming an increasingly difficult time for all, but we would like to invite the people of Letchworth to document their personal experiences of living through the COVID-19 outbreak as a reference for future generations.

As the Garden City Collection (part of the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation’s museum service) we want to invite you to submit your thoughts, feelings and experiences to our museum, where we will collate them as part of our permanent collection. This could be simply be notebook entries giving insight into changes to your daily routine, or drawings, photographs or any other creative method. We would like to capture how this developing situation is affecting our town and its people.

We would love to hear everyone’s point of view; young and old, whatever your life situation or profession; as we feel that everyone should have the opportunity to be heard at this time. The museum service team will also be submitting their experiences of this currently uncertain time.

If you are interested in participating and would like to know how to donate, or would just like to learn more, then please email us at [email protected] (please note that unfortunately due to our current closure we are unable to take telephone calls)

23/03/2020
Brilliant news for LGCHF tenants 👍🏻
21/03/2020

Brilliant news for LGCHF tenants 👍🏻

Read about the measures we have put in place to support our commercial tenants affected by the coronavirus pandemic, including a rent-free period for small businesses.

http://ow.ly/yGun50yRDnc

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Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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