Barnet Museum
The Museum at Barnet. | |
Established | 1938; 86 years ago (1938) |
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Location | Barnet, London |
Public transit access | High Barnet |
Website | barnetmuseum.co.uk |
Barnet Museum is in the London Borough of Barnet.[1] It has displays on topics including the Battle of Barnet, Barnet Fair and Barnet Market. It is a centre for local and family research and its archives, library and reference collection are available for use by members of the public.[2]
Description
The museum was founded in 1938, and it remains in its original home an early Georgian house in the heart of High Barnet.[3] Its collection of objects, photographs, maps, books and documents - donated by local people and organisations - helps to preserve and celebrate Barnet's heritage.
It is a registered charity and is run entirely by volunteers from the Barnet and District Local History Society (originally the Barnet Record Society). The Museum hosts many guided visits for groups and local schools.
The Museum's public opening hours are: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 2.30pm to 4.30pm; Saturday 10.30am to 4.00pm and Sunday 2.00pm to 4.00pm. Guided visits are arranged for when the Museum is closed to the public. Admission is free.
Collections
The museum has permanent exhibitions on the following:
- The Battle of Barnet
- Archaeology – mainly medieval finds on display
- Domestic items – mainly from the 20th Century
- Costume – ladies dresses, bonnets and lace
- Public houses and the coaching trade in Barnet
- Local businesses – Watsons Microscopes, the Barnet Ventilator (credited with saving Elizabeth Taylor when she was young)[4]
- Services, Hospital and Fire Service
- The Home Front in Barnet during World War II
- Schooling in Barnet
- Victorian Room
See also
- Gillian Gear
References
External links
- Barnet Museum
- Barnet Society
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- Arkley
- Barnet Gate
- Brent Cross
- Brunswick Park
- Burnt Oak
- Childs Hill
- Chipping Barnet
- Church End, Finchley
- Colney Hatch
- East Barnet
- East Finchley
- Edgware
- Finchley
- Friern Barnet
- Golders Green
- Grahame Park
- The Hale
- Hampstead Garden Suburb
- Hendon
- The Hyde
- Mill Hill (including Mill Hill East)
- Monken Hadley
- New Barnet
- North Finchley
- Oakleigh Park
- Osidge
- Temple Fortune
- Totteridge
- West Hendon
- Whetstone
- Woodside Park
Partly in the London Borough | |
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Abolished in 1965 |
- Arrandene Open Space
- Barnet Gate Wood
- Basing Hill Park
- Bethune Park
- Bittacy Hill Park
- Brent Park
- Brent Reservoir
- Cherry Tree Wood
- Childs Hill Park
- Clitterhouse Recreation Ground
- Coppetts Wood
- Darland's Lake Nature Reserve
- Dollis Valley Greenwalk
- Edgwarebury Park
- Friary Park
- Golders Hill Park
- Greenhill Gardens
- Hendon Park
- King George's Fields
- Long Lane Pasture
- Lyttelton Playing Fields
- The Mill Field
- Mill Hill Park
- Moat Mount Open Space
- Princes Park
- Monken Hadley Common
- Oak Hill Park
- Oak Hill Wood
- Old Court House Recreation Ground
- Princes Park
- Rowley Green Common
- Scratchwood
- Stoneyfields Park
- Sunny Hill Park
- Swan Lane Open Space
- Totteridge Fields
- Tudor Sports Ground
- Victoria Park
- Victoria Recreation Ground
- Watling Park
- West Hendon Playing Fields
- Whalebones Park
- Whitings Hill Open Space
- Chipping Barnet
- Hendon
- Finchley and Golders Green
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- Commons
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