About Us

Bushey Museum

Bushey Museum Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation - more information below.

Address
Bushey Museum & Art Gallery
Rudolph Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire, WD23 3HW

Christmas and New Year opening hours:
Thursday 26/12/24 (Boxing Day)     Closed
Friday 27/12/24          Open 11.00 am to 4.00 pm
Saturday 28/12/24     Open 11.00 am to 4.00 pm
Sunday 29/12/24        Open 11.00 am to 4.00 pm

Thursday 02/01/25    Open 11.00 am to 4.00 pm

Normal opening times going forwards

Phone
Museum - 020 8950 3233
Opening times: Thu-Sun 11am - 4pm
Office - 020 8420 4057
Opening times: Wed-Fri 10am - 4pm

Who are we?

The Bushey Museum & Art Gallery in Bushey, Hertfordshire has a local history collection, plus a major art collection spanning 200 years, with paintings, prints and drawings, sculpture, Bushey Heath lustre pottery and historic church silver as well as costume and embroidery.

The Museum has a unique artistic history - which is of national significance - and it majors on Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA with works of art, artefacts and ephemera relating to him and his famous Art School in Bushey. There is also a major collection of paintings by Herkomer's student Lucy Kemp-Welch, as well as works by other artists drawn to Bushey by its artistic reputation.

Art UK say on their website: "...the art collection is the largest in Hertfordshire and is mainly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special interest in the Monro Circle of artists, Sir Hubert von Herkomer, Lucy Kemp-Welch and the pupils of their Art Schools and other Bushey art schools."

Located in an Edwardian former Council building close to Bushey High Street, it features galleries with displays of local history; Herkomer and Lucy Kemp-Welch paintings and memorabilia, as well as other Galleries with changing displays, see What's-On.

Click on Museum Shop to see the wide range of local history books, greetings cards featuring local artists' pictures - and much more - which can be bought in the Shop at the Museum, or via this website. And there is also a link to the Art UK website (see below as well) where you can buy prints of over 120 paintings from our Collection. Well worth a look!

There is a Meeting Room which is available for hire to local societies or individuals for meetings, talks, etc.

Parking and Accessibility

There is limited on-site free parking and additional parking in Kemp Place (chargeable!) which is off the High Street opposite Rudolph Road. For more information about Accessibility click here.

The Visit Us page tells you how to get to the Museum.
The About Us page gives you more about the history of the Museum and what we have to offer.
The What’s On page includes details of all of our current Exhibitions.

 

Arts Council England

Bushey Museum and Art Gallery has Full Accreditation status with the Arts Council England (RD 1048). Visit their site here.

Art UK

Bushey Museum and Art Gallery is an Art UK Founder Partner. Visit their website here to see over 1000 of the paintings in our collection! And also visit their Art UK Shop herewhere you can buy prints of over 120 of the pictures in our collection!

Charity Commission

Bushey Museum Trust is a registered charity with the Charity Commission in England and Wales No. 294261.

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

In April 2023 the Museum successfully transitioned from a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee to become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, saving many hours of work and simplifying the administration, particularly all that connected with preparing, examining and submitting the annual accounts.

© 2024, Bushey Museum Trust, a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. 

Current Exhibitions

Donated Artworks
Council Chamber
Until January 2025
Over the years many generous people have donated artworks to us: this exhibition is an opportunity to view the variety of subjects and media. More.

 

Lucy Marguerite Frobisher - her art and legacy

Ann Blessley Gallery
Until 13th April 2025

Marguerite Frobisher was an artist and a teacher who specialised in animal painting and was the director of the Frobisher School of Painting, which flourished well into the 1970s. More.

 

Performing Arts Festival Exhibition
Jubilee Room

 

Future Exhibitions
To be added

Local Bushey History
Ground floor galleries

The gallery gives a social history of Bushey with maps, extracts of medieval documents, and some ancient artefacts. It includes local industries, schools, police and fire brigade history, the World Wars, transport, celebrities, and more! More.

This gallery also includes a collection of Bushey Heath Pottery, for more information, click here.

Hubert von Herkomer - paintings & memorabilia

A self-portrait of Hubert von Herkomer dated around 1900.

Hubert von Herkomer Gallery

The life, work and castle of Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA, also his School of Art, and including some of his most notable paintings. More.

 

A Herkomer painting not seen in public for 100 years is now on display!

'The Lady in White' by HerkomerThe Museum is delighted that it has acquired this unique Herkomer painting! Almost all of Herkomer's portaits were of men, but in 1885 he produced this portrait of Miss Katherine Grant - the painting known as 'The Lady in White'. Come and see it in the Herkomer Gallery. For more about this impressive painting, click here!

Click here to download this leaflet (pdf, 9.8MB)

Bushey Restaurants

Click on the poster below to see a larger poster with details of 13 restaurants in Bushey! Enjoy!

Explore Bushey!

Here are some links to interesting places to visit and explore in Bushey!

Bushey Arts and Crafts Heritage Trail, download here.
Bushey Parish Churchyard Trail, click here.
Bushey Rose Garden Childrens Wildlife Habitat Quiz, click here.
And there are lots of other links here!
Bushey Museum Jigsaws!

Fancy doing an online jigsaw? Just click on the picture... enjoy! And click here  to see more jigsaws!

Ploughing by Algernon Talmage
Ploughing by Algernon Talmage
The Defibrillator is located at the front of the Museum

Defibrillator on Museum's from wallBushey Museum’s defibrillator is located by the main entrance, making it accessible to the Bushey community 24 hours a day. The move of the unit from inside was paid for by a Ward Improvement Initiative Scheme (WIIS) grant organised by Councillor Pervez Choudhury. The photo shows Cllr Perez Choudhury between the Museum's Audrey Adams and Operations Manager David Berry with the defibrillator.

The defibrillator was bought in memory of Gareth Wood, the Museum’s former Operations Manager, and paid for by Museum supporters, local residents and Gareth’s friends. Cllr Choudhury, a long-term supporter of the Museum, agreed to help and arranged for seven of his colleagues – Councillors Carter, Morris, Mortimer, Quilty, Rutledge, Silver and Swerling – to join him in contributing some of his WIIS allocation to the project.

The defibrillator is housed in an eye-catching yellow cabinet, purpose-built to provide protection and also maintain the defibrillator at the optimum temperature. Anyone needing to use the defibrillator should dial 999 and speak to the Ambulance Service, who will supply a key pad number to open the cabinet.

Accredited by the Arts council, England            Link to the Art UK website            Link to Visit England website                Link to Hertsmere Borough Council website    Link to the Bushey Museum page on Facebook              Link to Bushey Museum page on the Trip Advisor website.