Upcoming Events
Unexpected Elegance: Female Fashion from the 1970s
The 1970s are often called ‘the decade that taste forgot’, but the dresses in this small exhibition show that this was far from true.
Find out more »Guided Walking Tours of Chester with the Guild of Chester Tour Guides
Your guide will lead you on a captivating journey through 2,000 years of history, taking in all the main sites along the way, including the Rows, Walls, River and the exterior of the Cathedral.
Find out more »Memento Mori: Tombs and Memorials in Cheshire
This exhibition presents watercolours, drawings, prints and photographs showing how Cheshire has commemorated its dead from the Romans to the present day.
Find out more »Dead Normal
The ways we have thought about and interacted with death depend on many factors and have changed over time.
Find out more »Sacrifice, Sorrow and Salvation: The Grosvenor Family, Eaton Hall and the Great War
Louise Benson, Archivist for the Eaton Estate, relates the story of the Grosvenor family during the Great War.
Find out more »‘Frozen Sing-Along’
Come and join Elsa, Olaf, Anna, Sven and more of your favourite characters for a Christmas sing-along. Brought to you by CH1ChesterBID
Find out more »Funeral Fashions in Britain 1894-1998
The Newman Brothers factory in Birmingham made the finest quality coffin furniture for just over 100 years, before its closure and subsequent rescue as the Coffin Works museum.
Find out more »The Britishness of British Art: A Study Day with Adrian Sumner
Explore the astonishing breadth and depth of British art from the Neolithic to the world of tomorrow with this day of magnificently-illustrated lectures.
Find out more »‘Elf’
The sweet and funny story of Buddy, a human who grows up amongst Santa’s elves, and his trip to New York to look for his father.
Find out more »The Medieval Cemeteries of Poulton
Excavations at Poulton, a multi-period archaeological site just outside Chester, have uncovered evidence of human population spanning thousands of years from the Iron Age through to the modern period.
Find out more »Twelfth Night Riddle Trail
Come and follow our museum trail, inspired by traditional Twelfth Night riddles, caricatures and parlour games.
Find out more »Christmas Card Making
Start your Christmas preparations early and make a Christmas card in the gallery using our craft materials.
Find out more »‘Polar Express’
A boy who doesn’t think that Santa Claus exists takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
Find out more »The Archaeology of the Walking Dead
Join Professor Howard Williams from the University of Chester as he explores the results and implications of an archaeological study of the zombie apocalypse.
Find out more »Winter Watch Parade
This spectacular event is based on Chester’s 15th-century tradition of ‘Setting the Watch’, when the city leaders handed over the keys of Chester to the City Watch.
Find out more »Christmas Card Making
Start your Christmas preparations early and make a Christmas card in the gallery using our craft materials.
Find out more »‘Frozen Sing-Along’
Come and join Elsa, Olaf, Anna, Sven and more of your favourite characters for a Christmas sing-along. Brought to you by CH1ChesterBID
Find out more »Museum Explorers
Come and explore nature’s changing seasons and discover lots of exciting things.
Find out more »The Roman Way of Death
Nearly 2000 years ago, Chester was a busy military fortress with a flourishing civilian settlement attached. Its inhabitants largely followed Roman traditions when burying and commemorating their dead.
Find out more »Winter Watch Parade
This spectacular event is based on Chester’s 15th-century tradition of ‘Setting the Watch’, when the city leaders handed over the keys of Chester to the City Watch.
Find out more »‘Elf’
The sweet and funny story of Buddy, a human who grows up amongst Santa’s elves, and his trip to New York to look for his father.
Find out more »‘Polar Express’
A boy who doesn’t think that Santa Claus exists takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
Find out more »‘Elf’
The sweet and funny story of Buddy, a human who grows up amongst Santa’s elves, and his trip to New York to look for his father.
Find out more »Copy of ‘Polar Express’
A boy who doesn’t think that Santa Claus exists takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
Find out more »‘Frozen Sing-Along’
Come and join Elsa, Olaf, Anna, Sven and more of your favourite characters for a Christmas sing-along. Brought to you by CH1ChesterBID
Find out more »Museum Explorers
Come and explore nature’s changing seasons and discover lots of exciting things.
Find out more »The Victorian Way of Death
From horse-drawn hearses to jet jewellery, the Victorians lavished much more money on their funerals than on their weddings.
Find out more »Voices from the Holocaust
A moving opportunity to see and discuss original correspondence written by prisoners while they were living and, often, dying in Second World War Nazi concentration camps including Auschwitz, Dachau and Theresienstadt.
Find out more »To Kill a King: The Regicide of Charles I
At 2pm, on Tuesday 30 January 1649, King Charles I stepped onto a wooden scaffold outside Whitehall’s Banqueting House, knelt down in front of an audience of thousands and was publicly beheaded as a traitor.
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