Worcestershire County Museum at Hartlebury Castle

Worcestershire County Museum

Worcestershire County Museum is a local museum at Hartlebury Castle in Hartlebury, Worcester, England, run by the Worcestershire County Museum Service, part of the Worcestershire County Council.In 1964, the north wing of Hartlebury Castle was taken over by Worcestershire County Council for the creation of a County Museum and the museum was opened to the public in 1966.The collections include archaeological items, costumes, domestic objects, and toys. There are also a Victorian schoolroom and a Transport Gallery. Other facilities include a nature reserve, cafe, and gift shop.

Hartlebury Museum

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Lost Landscapes

The Ice Age is, in one sense, a very engaging topic; mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers instantly spring to mind. It is however much harder to relate to the people of the Palaeolithic. Separated from us by more than 3000 generations and inhabiting landscapes utterly different to that which we recognise today. The Lost Landscapes Project was a collaboration between Museums Worcestershire and Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, funded predominantly through HLF and ACE. The project aimed to share the Ice Age story of Worcestershire across two venues; Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum and The Hive.


The project was inspired by a Historic England funded report called ‘Putting the Palaeolithic into Worcestershire’s HER’ and ended up bringing together specialists from archaeology, museology, natural history, geology and fine art to develop exhibitions, artworks, resources, talks and workshops. For almost two hundred years, people have examined the traces of Worcestershire's landscape for clues to the greatest puzzles of all: how did we get here? When did we become human? What came before us? From the 19th century, artefacts from Europe and beyond found their way into the collections, artefacts with the potential to bring this distant world to life.




Deborah Fox and Emma Hancox, Museums Worcestershire


Speaker biographies
Emma Hancox, Historic Environment Policy and Advisory Manager at Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service. Emma leads a team providing advice and information on the historic environment and archaeology of Worcestershire, with specialists in developing strategic projects, data standards, archaeological planning, green infrastructure, neighbourhood planning and more.

Deborah Fox, Senior Curator at Museums Worcestershire
Deborah leads the curatorial team working across the collections belonging to Worcester City and Worcestershire County Council and the exhibitions team delivering displays and interpretation at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, the Commandery and Worcestershire County Museum at Hartlebury Castle.

Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust: Handing Over and Planning for the Future

On the verge of her departure Sue Beeson talks to us about what the trust have achieved, and new chair Alison Brimelow lays out their ambitions going forward.

A summer day on Bredon Hill, Worcestershire.

Aerial video and photographs from the top of Bredon Hill, near Pershore, Worcestershire.