Visit the substantial remains of a strong and important motte and bailey castle dating from the 11th to 13th centuries, with surrounding walls, ditches and earthworks. A palace complex was added in the 13th century.

Home to George Bernard Shaw for over 40 years, Shaw's Corner is a 1902 Arts & Crafts house set in a quintessentially English garden.

Gorhambury House is a fine neo-Palladian house, built in 1777 - 84 to the designs of Sir Robert Taylor. In the Middle Ages the Gorhambury estate, lying near the site of the vanished Roman city of Verulamium, belonged to St Albans Abbey.

Verulamium Museum is an award-winning museum of everyday life in Roman Britain. Events include living history by Legion XIIII every second weekend of the month

Critically acclaimed University of Hertfordshire Galleries (UH Galleries) are among the most innovative contemporary art spaces in the UK. With two dynamic galleries - the Margaret Harvey Gallery in St Albans, and the Art and Design Gallery in Hatfield – UH...

The Museum of St Albans tells the story of historic St Albans, with a changing programme of temporary exhibitions and a wildlife garden.

Founded as the Hertfordshire County Museum in 1898, the Museum of St Albans tells the story of St Albans from the departure of the Romans to the present day. In the medieval gallery you can find out about Alban, Britain's first Christian martyr, and the Abbey that...

The Stockwood Discovery Centre features extensive and diverse collections that tell the stories of real people, exploring the history of the region from prehistoric times to the evolution of Stockwood House and the Farley estate. The Period Gardens reflect the...

The blow fell again in 2003 when Interface required that building for their own use. St Albans Museum Service helped by taking most of the collection into store at Kyngston House in St Albans.

This romantic ruin is all that remains of the Tudor mansion built around 1560 by Sir Richard Lee, a soldier and royal engineer, granted the land by Henry VIII in 1540. Sir Richard Lee died in 1575. Whether his son continued with the work is not known because it was...