• Natural Cheshire gallery
    coming soon!     The Natural History Gallery is currently closed
    as it is metamorphisising into a new gallery
    all about nature in Cheshire.
    The new gallery will open on 26 July.

  • This Summer
    Chester Castle Revealed

  • Chester
    HISTORY & HERITAGE

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  • GROSVENOR MUSEUM

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  • WEAVER HALL

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  • STRETTON WATERMILL

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  • LION SALT WORKS

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Find our museums

Our sites are spread out across West Cheshire. View them on the map below, or find out more about our museums.

 

  • Family Events

Summer 2017

Join us making celtic jewellery, fish mobiles, watercolour forest and more.

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  • Exhibition

The Life of Brine

7 April - 2 July


Poems inspired by the Lion Salt Works site led by John Lindley, former Cheshire Poet Laureate and Manchester Cathedral Poet of the Year.

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  • This Summer

Chester Castle Revealed

20 July – 3 September


There’s a chance to explore Chester Castle this summer, visitors will be able to enter free of charge, wander around the site and experience the views.

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  • Exhibition

All the World's a Stage

9 January – 30 June. Chester History and Heriage

From amateur dramatics to the much loved Royalty Theatre, from the Tatler newsreels to the evenings when we were all bewitched by the silver screens .
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  • Exhibition

Alistair Tucker: The Sublime Landscape

22 April – 16 July. Grosvenor Museum

Landscapes by Alistair Tucker the current Head of Art at The Queen’s School in Chester. Alistair’s work looks to explore such excellence, grandeur and beauty

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  • Exhibition

Stephen Clarke: End of the Season

18 March - 9 July 2017. Weaver Hall

Since the early 1980s the artist Stephen Clarke has photographed the seaside town of Rhyl in an attempt to reclaim imagery from his childhood holidays.
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  • Schools

Learning comes to life

There's a huge variety of workshops, trips and visits specially tailored for schools, on offer across all of West Cheshire Museums. Find out what your school can discover and learn.
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