Letchworth Museum & Art Gallery

It had permanent displays dedicated to the natural history of North Hertfordshire, including the famous black squirrel, as well as its archaeology from remote prehistory to the turn of the twentieth century.

[1] The building was designed as a single storey structure by Richard Barry Parker, one of the principal architects of the early Garden City movement.

[2] Its first curator, W Percival Westell (1874–1943), was a well-known author of works on natural history and archaeology.

During the time spent at the museum he wrote 84 books and gave 145 radio talks for the BBC, mostly on natural history.

A feasibility study was commissioned to investigate the possibility of converting Hitchin Town Hall to museum use.