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The Henry Moore Institute is closed for refurbishment until Summer 2024.

See & Do

Families

Find out more about our activities and facilities to help adults and children to enjoy Henry Moore’s home together.

A group of children Children play hide and seek around Henry Moore's huge sculpture Large Figure in a Shelter.

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Visiting with children

See more than twenty of Moore’s monumental artworks and six studios to inspire the imagination. Explore over 70 acres of woodland, gardens and meadows. Meet the lambs and sheep that inspired Moore.

Discover new ways of thinking and being around art, design, construction, the natural environment, history, home, community and much more. Pick up one of our Activity Sketchbooks to take with you outdoors or find light-touch activities in the visitor centre café.  Don’t forget to talk to our friendly and knowledgeable visitor services team.

 

Facilities for families

  • Baby changing facilities in the visitor centre and Aisled Barn
  • Buggy-friendly paths
  • Family-friendly food and drink available
  • Picnic areas
  • Gifts, books and souvenirs available to purchase in the gift shop and online
Three young children jumping into the air. They are dressed casually and are playing in a meadow underneath a huge bronze arch.
Children enjoy the sculpture gardens during BBC Art That Made Us Festival in 2022
A photo of a small, A6 sized activity book. The cover is orange and teal blue with the words
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens Activity Sketchbook. Courtesy Lizzie Lomax. Photo: Will Richards, Oddlines Studio.

See, Do & Discover

Try out our Activity Sketchbook created by Illustrator and Designer Lizzie Lomax, free to pick up on arrival at the Ticket Desk.

Use the view finder to explore more outdoors, find some flint along the way and send your pull-out postcard to a friend! This sketchbook will take you on an interactive trip around our site, sharing information about Henry Moore’s art and life and encouraging you to develop your own ideas with prompts to write, draw, make, move & imagine.

In the making of these we’ve taken care to include your feedback from last season and tested the activities out with children too. Our new friend Lizzie is also the creator of SEED Magazeen, for kids who care about the environment.

A younger woman talking to a girl, they are both standing at a table which is laid with paper and books illustrated with pictures of plants
A young boy in a red sweatshirt looks curiously at a small bronze sundial
A group of people of mixed ages and genders gathered around a table. On the table is a large tub of soil and several stacks of small plant pots which are being used to plant seeds.
A young boy applying ink to an etching plate that he has made.
A young girl and four women gathered around a two small printing presses. They are placing etching plates into the presses ready to make prints
A dark haired young girl and a blonde boy stand looking through a window into an artist's studio which is filled with small sculpture models
Three young adults sit sketching in a parched field. They are looking towards an abstract reclining figure sculpture in the distance
Two women, one older one young, are working at a table using a paint brush to apply colour and metallic coating to a piece of art.
A teenager with red hair lifts a young toddler up to look more closely at a tall bronze sculpture
A mother and her son photographed through the hole in a carved stone sculpture
A toddler rides on her father's shoulders, she is leaning over to touch a huge bronze arch with one finger
A photo showing the hands of a young woman with brown skin. She is working at a table covered with a yellow cover, making an artwork using drawing and collage.

Family-friendly events

Look out for our family friendly events held during the holidays. Take part in artist led workshops, try your hand at new skills and get your head around new ideas.

Join in on nationwide festival days. Collaborate, play and take something away.

Keep an eye on our What’s on listings for details of upcoming events, or sign up to our newsletter to get updates direct to your inbox.

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Several adults and children are playing with large pieces of padded material with holes in, putting limbs through holes and using them to join people together.
Listening/Mapping by felix taylor
Part of Inspiration, Sculpture and Our Natural World
Part of Inspiration, Sculpture and Our Natural World

Digital Soundscape

Listening/Mapping by felix taylor

Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
International Sculpture Day: Celebrate, Assemble, Recollect
A photo taken through a hole in a bronze sculpture. Through the hole you can see a middle aged man, wearing fashionable spectacles, talking into a microphone.
Part of Inspiration, Sculpture and Our Natural World
Part of Inspiration, Sculpture and Our Natural World

Drop-in activity

International Sculpture Day: Celebrate, Assemble, Recollect

11:30–16:00

Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Shapes & Shadows with Lizzie Lomax
Part of Inspiration, Sculpture and Our Natural World
Part of Inspiration, Sculpture and Our Natural World

Drop-in activity

Shapes & Shadows with Lizzie Lomax

11:30–13:00 & 13:30–15:00

Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire

Children react to Henry Moore

We asked some younger visitors to answer a few questions about Henry Moore and the sculptures in our gardens.

Watch the full series on YouTube to see what they thought.

See more on our YouTube channel

Getting here

Henry Moore Studios & Gardens

Experience Henry Moore’s iconic work in the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside with a visit to the artist’s former home, studios and sculpture gardens.

Perry Green
Hertfordshire
SG10 6EE
United Kingdom

T:  01279 843 333
E:  ReceptionDTH@henry-moore.org

Plan your visit – Studios & Gardens
Colour photo of Henry Moore's sculpture Sheep Piece, with several sheep sheltering under the work. In the distance, another sculpture Large Reclining Figure is visible