What's on at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Our 2026 visitor season runs from 1 April to 25 October.
We are open Wednesdays to Sundays and Bank Holidays, 11:00–17:00.
Entry to all our exhibitions and events is included in your entrance tickets, unless otherwise stated.
Exhibitions
Join us at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens and explore The Art and Life of Henry Moore, a new permanent exhibition that celebrates the reopening of the Sheep Field Barn, as well as a special display for 2026 The Shelter Drawings 1940-1941.
The Art and Life of Henry Moore
This exhibition in the newly-opened Sheep Field Barn Gallery presents over eighty sculptures made between 1922 and 1986, alongside photographs and archival materials from the Henry Moore Foundation Collections.
The Shelter Drawings 1940 – 1941
Our special display for 2026 focuses on Moore’s Shelter Drawings. Created during the Second World War, they are among the most powerful and widely recognised works of Moore’s career.
Free drop-in events
Open archive session
Open Archive: Behind the Scenes Tour
14:00–14:30 & 15:00–15:30
Drop-in workshop
Maquette Making
12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30
Drop-in activity
Soft Sculpt
12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30
Drop-in drawing activity
Sketching Sculptures: The Arch
14:00–15:00
Drop-in workshop
Make & Curate: Reimagining the Gardens
12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30
Drop-in workshop
Eco Lithography
12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30
Early years activity
Mini Moore: Collect
11:00–13:00
Drop-in workshop
Texture, Touch, Draw
12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30
Guided tour
Sculpture Gardens Tour
15:00–16:00
Drop-in workshop
Standing Shells
12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30
Drop-in workshop
Growing Moore: Sculpting from Seed
12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30
Guided tour
The Festival of Britain, 1951
15:00–16:00
Art studios & sculpture gardens
Sculpture gardens
With over 70 acres of gardens and rolling fields, see Moore’s world-famous, monumental sculptures as he intended, against the landscape he shaped.
Included in your visit
Studios
Preserved as Moore would have used them in his lifetime, six studios reveal the artist’s processes of drawing, etching, carving and model making.
Included in your visit. Studios close at 16:00
Tapestries in the Aisled Barn
A reconstructed sixteenth-century farm building, the Aisled Barn is the only place in the world to see Moore’s unique tapestries. Available to hire, and occasionally closed for private events.
Included in your visit
Hoglands, the Moore’s family home
Hoglands was home to Henry Moore and his wife, Irina for almost fifty years. It now houses Moore’s personal art collection and the curiosities that often inspired his sculpture.
Tour tickets £6 (available at the ticket desk)
Henry Moore Archive
The world’s leading resource on the life and work of Henry Moore, containing publications, photographs, correspondence and exhibition material.
The Archive is open by appointment year-round, Monday to Friday, 10:00–16:30
Getting here
We’re located just 27 miles north of London in the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside.
Our 2026 visitor season runs from 1 April to 25 October, Wednesday to Sunday, 11:00–17:00.
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Perry Green
Hertfordshire
SG10 6EE
United Kingdom
T: 01279 843 333
E: visitorservices@henry-moore.org
