{"id":2199,"date":"2022-12-01T16:11:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visithitchin.com\/?page_id=2199"},"modified":"2023-05-28T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T09:34:39","slug":"british-schools-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visithitchin.com\/attractions\/british-schools-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"British Schools Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Located on Queen Street, in Hitchin town centre, the Museum contains the world\u2019s last remaining purpose built Monitorial schoolroom, built in 1837. Step back in time and explore a series of old classrooms and workshops from schooldays past. The British Schools Museum features temporary exhibitions, as well as a collection featuring everything from the abacus, to textbooks, to the&nbsp;cane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look into the life of Joseph Lancaster, who inspired an &#8220;educational revolution&#8221; in Great Britain and around the world in the late 1700s and early&nbsp;1800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a number of classrooms free to roam that illustrate the changes of education through time, the Headmasters House, caf\u00e9 and gift shop. Entrance fee includes a guided tour, or you can explore at your own pace with a self-guiding&nbsp;leaflet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located on Queen Street, in Hitchin town centre, the Museum contains the world\u2019s last remaining purpose built Monitorial schoolroom, built in 1837. Step back in time and explore a series of old classrooms and workshops from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312,"parent":9,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visithitchin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visithitchin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visithitchin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithitchin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithitchin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/visithitchin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/visithitchin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2199\/revisions\/3673"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithitchin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithitchin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visithitchin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}