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Barnet Museum is a free local history Museum in North London run by volunteers. The Museum focuses on Chipping Barnet, East Barnet, New Barnet, Hadley and the surrounding districts. |
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The Museum’s collection contains hundreds of artefacts reflecting the history of Barnet and those that have lived there, dating from the Bronze Age to the present day. There is also an extensive archive, and we are a centre for local and family history research.
Our next lecture
The Physic Well
We are delighted to reopen the Physic Well from February 19th.
The well will be open from 2pm-4pm on the third Saturday of the month.
For more information click here.
The well will be open from 2pm-4pm on the third Saturday of the month.
For more information click here.
What's on?
Lecture Programme
We are pleased to announce that at long last we are relaunching our programme of lectures. The lectures will take place on the second Monday of the month starting on Monday 14th March 2022. The venue is St John the Baptist Church (Barnet Church) at 3pm. Lectures are free to Barnet Museum and Local History Society members and £2 for non-members.
Lecturers will include, Dr. Ian Johnston, Martin Russell Esq. and John Lynch. Check the Lecture Programme section of our website for more information here.
Lecturers will include, Dr. Ian Johnston, Martin Russell Esq. and John Lynch. Check the Lecture Programme section of our website for more information here.
Barnet TV Tour
We were delighted when Barnet TV came to visit us to record this tour of the Museum and to have a chat with our curator Mike.
Spires Exhibition
Actually it is an "old" new exhibition. Photographs which formed a display in Hadley Highstone Memorial Hall in the 1990s are exhibited again by Barnet Museum.
The display was put together by Rob Brimson, Lyn Brimson and Jane Downey. The early photos are a record of times gone (but not necessarily forgotten) in Hadley and Barnet. Come and revel in a bit of nostalgia.
The exhibition is free, we are grateful to Lyn Brimson who donated the display to Barnet Museum and, of course, we are grateful ,as ever, to The Spires management for letting us use one of their units.
The display was put together by Rob Brimson, Lyn Brimson and Jane Downey. The early photos are a record of times gone (but not necessarily forgotten) in Hadley and Barnet. Come and revel in a bit of nostalgia.
The exhibition is free, we are grateful to Lyn Brimson who donated the display to Barnet Museum and, of course, we are grateful ,as ever, to The Spires management for letting us use one of their units.
The Battle of Barnet
English Heritage describes the Battle of Barnet as ‘one of the most important battles’ of the Wars of the Roses, a series of English civil wars over who should be king. The claimants were Edward IV, of the house of York, and Henry VI, of the house of Lancaster. By the time the two sides lined up at Barnet, both men had been crowned and re-crowned; Edward was just back from exile and Henry was his hostage. Henry’s army was commanded by the powerful Earl of Warwick (the ‘Kingmaker’) – who had previously been Edward’s right-hand-man. It was in this battle that Warwick fell.
We hope you enjoy this drone footage of our banners along Barnet High Street. For more information on the Battle, please navigate to the Battle of Barnet section of this website.
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This document outlines the strategic direction for Barnet Museum & Local History Society
The Museum opened in March 1938 to house and make available to the public the growing collection of the Barnet Record Society (now Barnet Museum & Local History Society) which had been founded in 1927 to record and preserve Barnet’s history. The Museum building is an attractive early Georgian house in the heart of Chipping Barnet, and is part of Wood Street conservation area. The Museum is a registered charity (no.1169214 ) and accredited Museum.
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