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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.

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, try out our summer holiday drawing kit 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 and 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.

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
Textile Transformations with Alice Burnhope
Part of Inspiration, Sculpture and Our Natural World
Part of Inspiration, Sculpture and Our Natural World

Drop-in activity

Textile Transformations with Alice Burnhope

Drop in any time between 11:00–12:30 & 13:30–15:00

Buy an annual ticket

Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Bluebell Planting
Two women wearing winter coats and bobble hats plant bluebell bulbs in a woodland
Part of Inspiration, Sculpture and Our Natural World
Part of Inspiration, Sculpture and Our Natural World

Drop-in activity

Bluebell Planting

Drop in at anytime between 11:30–15:00

Buy an annual ticket

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