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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.

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Two children working together to make a large sculpture out of strips of fabric dipped in plaster.

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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
Close up of a small, bronze Henry Moore Reclining Figure in a display case, with a larger plaster sculpture in soft focus in the background.

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
A drawing of four adults and a small child huddled together under blankets. The figures are primarily drawn in white and yellow chalk, with some orange and red highlights, and are surrounded by darkness.

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

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Messy Monoprinting
Ink-on-paper print of a sculpture by Henry Moore. The sculpture has thick black lines, with a wash of blue sky and green grass behind.

Drop-in workshop

Messy Monoprinting

12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30

Learning Studios, Sheep Field Barn
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Summer Makers
Two young girls laughing, one holding a bundle of paper almost as big as she is, with the other holding a roll of masking tape ready to wrap up the paper. Two other, younger children are looking on.

Drop-in workshop

Summer Makers

12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30

Learning Studios, Sheep Field Barn
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Sculpture Series: Green Sand Casting & Aluminium Pour
A man in a hard hat, visor and heat-resistant clothing standing next to machinery for casting bronze. Flames are pouring out of the machine in a controlled manner.
Part of Sculpture Series: Moore’s Sculptural Processes and Techniques
Part of Sculpture Series: Moore’s Sculptural Processes and Techniques

Live material demonstration

Sculpture Series: Green Sand Casting & Aluminium Pour

15:00–16:30

Learning Studios, Sheep Field Barn
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Creating from Classics: Shadows
A colour photo showing a carved marble head of Mary the Virgin, in a classic style.

Drop-in workshop

Creating from Classics: Shadows

12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30

Learning Studios, Sheep Field Barn
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Sculpture Series: Wax Modelling & Spruing
Henry Moore, now in his eighties, is working on a plaster maquette. There are various bowls and tools spread out in front of him, and other working models of sculptures behind him.
Part of Sculpture Series: Moore’s Sculptural Processes and Techniques
Part of Sculpture Series: Moore’s Sculptural Processes and Techniques

Live material demonstration

Sculpture Series: Wax Modelling & Spruing

15:00–16:30

Learning Studios, Sheep Field Barn
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Sketching Sculptures: Locking Piece
A large, abstract white sculpture, looking somewhat similar to vertebral bones, seen through a gap between two trees.
Part of Sketching Sculptures
Part of Sketching Sculptures

Drop-in drawing activity

Sketching Sculptures: Locking Piece

14:00–15:00

Sculpture Gardens
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Sculpture Series: Bronze Pour
Two people holding a long metal rod with a container at the centre, pouring molten metal into a cast.
Part of Sculpture Series: Moore’s Sculptural Processes and Techniques
Part of Sculpture Series: Moore’s Sculptural Processes and Techniques

Live material demonstration

Sculpture Series: Bronze Pour

13:00–16:30

Learning Studios, Sheep Field Barn
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Mini Moore: Collect, Make, Rearrange
A child holding up a sculpture in each hand, made from stones and plasticine.
Part of Early Years Programme: Collect, Make & Rearrange
Part of Early Years Programme: Collect, Make & Rearrange

Early years activity

Mini Moore: Collect, Make, Rearrange

11:00–13:00

Learning Studios, Sheep Field Barn
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Sculpture Gardens Tour
A huge bronze upright sculpture, standing in a green field surrounding by grazing sheep.
Part of Henry Moore Studios & Gardens research programme 2026
Part of Henry Moore Studios & Gardens research programme 2026

Guided tour

Sculpture Gardens Tour

15:00–16:00

Visitor Centre
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Make your own Figure in a Shelter
A group of visitors walk around and between three large pieces of bronze that form Moore's huge sculpture 'Large Figure in a Shelter'.

Drop-in workshop

Make your own Figure in a Shelter

12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30

Learning Studios, Sheep Field Barn
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Makers & Manifestos
A black and white photo showing an elderly Henry Moore working on a drawing in one of his studios in 1982. Moore is wearing a jacket, striped shirt and tie with a fat knot. Behind him a small bronze sculpture of a mother and child is visible.

Drop-in workshop

Makers & Manifestos

12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30

Learning Studios, Sheep Field Barn
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Sounds of Sculpture
A studio photo of a small metal sculpture. The work is an abstract form, two points curve around to almost meet above a third peak.

Drop-in workshop

Sounds of Sculpture

12:00–16:00, last entry 15:30

Learning Studios, Sheep Field Barn
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire

Art studios & sculpture gardens

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A large, abstract white sculpture, looking somewhat similar to vertebral bones, seen through a gap between two trees.

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

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A reconstructed interior of one of Henry Moore's studios, featuring several incomplete sculptures, racks of tools and a blue & white butcher's apron on a chair.

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

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A wide shot of one wall in the Aisled Barn at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, with visitors looking at four of Moore's tapestries hanging on the walls.

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

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White, open gates lead along a path to Hoglands, a white painted former farmhouse with a red tiled roof.

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 £7 (available at the ticket desk)

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The Henry Moore Archive, a chalet bungalow with modern Core-Ten steel extension. In the foreground is a small, black sculpture by Henry Moore.

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

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A large bronze sculpture made of three parts, sited in a woodland clearing. The two larger parts surround the small on on two sides, acting like a shell or shelter.