Tring

Plan your visit

Safety information

The safety of our visitors and staff is our priority. Here's what we're doing to help keep everyone safe, and what you can do to help.

Face coverings

Face coverings must be worn inside the Museum. Read our full list of exemptions.

Cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue. If no tissue is available, use your elbow. Face coverings are provided to staff.

Social distancing

Please respect social distancing throughout the Museum. Some smaller spaces within the galleries will require you to wait for other visitors.

Hand sanitiser stations

Hand sanitiser is available at the entrance and exit to the Museum.

Cleaning

Our facilities will be cleaned regularly by staff.

Contactless payments

Pay with contactless if possible, although cash will still be accepted.

Feeling unwell?

Please do not visit the Museum if you're feeling unwell or have a temperature, consistent cough or loss of taste.

All touch interactives have been removed from the galleries.
For information about cloakrooms, toilets and lifts, visit Facilities and access at Tring.
We may need to share your information with the NHS Test and Trace service if someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 lists the Museum as a place they recently visited. Read our privacy notice to find out how your information is shared and stored. If you do not want your contact details passed on to the NHS Test and Trace service, you can opt out by contacting us. Please note that your contact details will still be collected when you book your ticket so that we can provide important safety information about your visit.

Getting here

Entrance to the Museum is via the quad entrance on Park Street. The small path from the Dawes Park car park will lead you there. The other entrances are closed.

By road

Tring is on the A41, 30 miles north-west of London. From the M25, exit at Junction 20.

Parking

There is free car parking in Dawes Park. It has 50 spaces, with three for Blue Badge holders and two parent-and-toddler spaces.

The Akeman Street car park is currently closed due to major building works. Two Blue Badge holder spaces are still available.

Alternative car parks are available off the high street. The car parks managed by Dacorum Borough Council are free for the first hour with a small charge thereafter.

By train

There are regular train services to Tring station. The station is about two miles from the Museum and can be reached by bus or taxi.

You can check train times using the National Rail journey planner, and find local transport information on the Tring Town Council website. Follow Network Rail's Coronavirus safe travel advice.

By bus

Buses run from most of the towns in the area. Plan your bus journey on the Hertfordshire Travel Information website or call Traveline on +44 (0)870 608 2608.