Museum at One Garden City

Museum at One Garden City Marvellous micro museum, exploring the history of Letchworth Garden City - fun free & family-friendly

Coming in Summer 2022 - Tom Karen Creations - celebrating the life and work of one of Britain's most influential living designers (and one of its most inventive and playful minds!)
At Ogle Design in Letchworth he created the Bond Bug, Reliant Scimitar, Raleigh Chopper, vehicles for Star Wars, Marble Run and lots more besides...
In the years after he created beautiful and joyous toys & sculptures.

Vote now 🗳️ Delighted to share that voting is open in the Hertfordshire Museums Object of the Year Awards 2025… We have ...
10/01/2025

Vote now 🗳️
Delighted to share that voting is open in the Hertfordshire Museums Object of the Year Awards 2025…

We have a wonderful cooking pan which we acquired as part of our The National Lottery Heritage Fund project ‘Uncovering Letchworth’

The cooking pan called a tawa (or tava) was used to make chapattis, a type of flatbread.

It was hand made by Gurdev Singh Shergill, who moved from Punjab, India, to Hertfordshire in 1962, part of a new community of people who came to the UK after World War II to work in factories.

Gurdev worked at Kryn and Lahy (K&L) in Letchworth, helping to make cranes. His earnings supported his family back home in India, including his father, wife, seven sisters, and two sons.
Gurdev lived in crowded, cold houses with other Indian workers, rotating shifts so that some worked while others slept. They cooked meals like daal and chapattis, that brought the comforts of home to their unfamiliar new surroundings.

In Letchworth in the 1960s, tawas weren’t available to buy in any shops, so Gurdev used steel from the K&L factory to make this pan himself.

So it isn’t just a (rather functional) cooking pan - it represents the journey of hardworking immigrants who helped shape their new community, just as Gurdev shaped this pan from K&L steel.

Today tawas are easy to find and purchase, but this one is a rare, handmade piece of history.

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We are delighted to launch Herts Museums Object of the Year 2025. This year 22 museums are competing for the trophy. Check out all the entries and vote for your favourite object here: https://hertfordshiremuseums.org.uk/object-of-the-year-2025.aspx
Hertfordshire County Council Hertfordshire Archives And Local Studies

We were thrilled to have been involved in this wonderful National The National Lottery Heritage Fund project with BEEE C...
10/10/2024

We were thrilled to have been involved in this wonderful National The National Lottery Heritage Fund project with BEEE Creative

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Lots of free and low-cost family activities happening in Letchworth Garden City over the Summer hols... half-price farm ...
30/07/2024

Lots of free and low-cost family activities happening in Letchworth Garden City over the Summer hols... half-price farm tickets, kids club screenings at the cinema, the Museum at One Garden City (free), and look out for the Play Discover Share exhibition at Broadway Gallery too... all captured on a downloadable calendar :)

Lots of good stuff coming up as part of Letchworth Festival - we are doing walking tours and illustrated talks... and a ...
25/05/2024

Lots of good stuff coming up as part of Letchworth Festival - we are doing walking tours and illustrated talks... and a brand new exhibition at Broadway Gallery celebrating Letchworth's amazing Khalsa Football Academy (opens 14th June)

10/05/2024

Visit Museum at One Garden City to discover Letchworth through the eyes of Perform Transform participants at 👇👇👇

Thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund

23/02/2024
23/02/2024
17/01/2024

One of the gems of Garden City Collection's fine art collection, this painting perfectly captures Letchworth’s rural idyll, depicting the town’s iconic grand tree-lined boulevard, Broadway, against a vivid pink dusk sky. It is the museum’s entry for Hertfordshire Museums Object of the Year 2024. You can see all the entries and vote for your favourite object at www.hertfordshiremuseums.org.uk

17/01/2024
29/12/2023

Apologies for not updating pre-Christmas - in line with the whole One Garden City building closing over the festive period, The Museum at One Garden City is also currently closed, reopening on 2nd January 👍

It’s Museum Shop Sunday - and we’re offering 10% off everything on our website with coupon code SUNDAY10 https://museums...
26/11/2023

It’s Museum Shop Sunday - and we’re offering 10% off everything on our website with coupon code SUNDAY10

https://museumshops.uk/shop/garden-city-collection/

There’s heaps of souvenirs, books, gifts - something for everyone - perfect for Christmas 👍

Exciting News...We have a brand new exhibition opening at the Museum at One Garden CityForging A Family has been a proje...
16/11/2023

Exciting News...
We have a brand new exhibition opening at the Museum at One Garden City

Forging A Family has been a project that's been all year in the making - working with Letchworth Caribbean Harmony Group to explore their stories and helping them uncover their hidden creative talents.

We've been working with a different artist every month and the result is an array of self-portraits, clay models, fashion collages, textile pieces, steel pan drums, and incredible over-size 3D 'life story art' vines.

It opens next Monday 20th November and its taking over our micro museum - its a co-curated community project - and its been so great to work on.

Funded with a generous grant from AIM (Association of Independent Museums) and the National Lottery Heritage Fund and we think its just great - come and check it out for yourself...

As with everything we do at the Museum at One Garden City - it is fun, free and family-friendly.

It will run until early 2024 and the museum is open Monday to Saturday 10am-5pm.

Thanks again to AIM and NLHF (and to National Lottery players) for funding this project.

11/11/2023

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One Garden City, Broadway
Letchworth
SG63BF

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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