Upcoming Events
Poulton: An Archaeological Landscape
. This exhibition explores the amazing story of the site and uses artefacts found there to tell the story of a Mesolithic camp, a large Iron-Age settlement, Roman activity, a well-used medieval chapel, and a World War II airfield.
Find out more »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 »Roman Hoards of Cheshire
This small exhibition features amazing Roman hoards including the recently discovered Malpas and Knutsford Hoards, on loan from National Museums Liverpool.
Find out more »Natural Cheshire
An exciting new gallery exploring nature in Cheshire opens this summer.
Find out more »Modern Watercolours
With works both traditional and more innovative in technique and intention, ranging in mood from enchantment and serenity to turbulence and menace, this exhibition demonstrates the continuing vitality of the medium.
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 »Irish Presbyterians and the Union: a pre-history, 1791-1829
Irish unionism is once more in the news, in particular the politics of the Democratic Unionist Party with its origins in Ian Paisley’s brand of Presbyterian militancy.
Find out more »The open-air school, its gardens and child health in early 20th- century Britain
In 1945 a visitor to the Cropwood Open-Air School in Worcestershire described how ‘the sleep-time garden might be the envy of princes, with its fountain in the midst of a green lawn, so that the children took their naps amid the soothing, somnolent plash of falling water’.
Find out more »Fasten Your Seatbelts
To celebrate the amazing Wales Rally GB returning to Chester we have an exclusive display of historic Chester Rally memorabilia on show.
Find out more »A Better Future for the World: Ethiopia, Somalia and the establishment of the United Nations
The countries of the Horn of Africa played an important role in the history of the United Nations.
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Halloween Hats and Masks
Make a witch or wizard hat or cat mask ready for tonight’s trick or treating.
Find out more »Halloween Victorian Murder Mystery
Join us, if you dare, and meet the characters who lived at No.20 Castle Street. Follow the clues and keep your eyes open to solve the crime.
Find out more »Up for the Cup
Come and discover Chester’s football heritage, the highs and the lows.
Find out more »Pixelate
Make a pixelated version of one of the old oil paintings in the Art Gallery.
Find out more »Techne: Creating Art
This exhibition celebrates the making of art through the work of five artists – Chris Bebbington (photography), Greg Fuller (printmaking and drawing), Tom Hignett (digital), Tabitha Jussa (photography) and Chris Millward (sculpture).
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Home from the Front
What was accessing medical assistance like before the NHS? The University of Chester’s Riverside Museum explores this through the experiences of a returning soldier from the First World War.
Find out more »The Impressionists and their World: a New Study Day with Adrian Sumner
Looking at the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, and the artistic hothouse in which they flourished during the heady years of the Belle Époque in Paris.
Find out more »Right Here, Right Now: 21st-Century Art
The 21st century ‘comes of age’ in 2018. Arranged around the themes of people and animals, landscapes and buildings, still life, faith and abstraction, the exhibition celebrates the quality and diversity of art made since the year 2000.
Find out more »Castle Street at Christmas
Take a break from the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping and step back in time to the Christmas of yesteryear.
Find out more »Welcome to Winter
Learn what you can do to help wildlife during the cold season, and have a go at some winter animal crafts.
Find out more »A Christmas Carol: A Folk Opera
The musical duo GreenMatthews bring you a brand-new retelling of the best-loved Yuletide adventure of them all, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Find out more »Minted: Making Money and Meaning
The Grosvenor Museum has an amazing money collection containing coins, tokens, jettons and paper money.
Find out more »Christmas Story-Telling with Morris the Mouse
Meet Morris, our little museum mouse, who has a very special Christmas tale to tell today.
Find out more »Digging into the Dark Ages: The 3rd University of Chester Archaeology Student Conference
The Early Middle Ages (5th–11th centuries AD) are still sometimes called the ‘Dark Ages’. Yet the period between the end of Roman rule and the Norman Conquest was far from ‘dark’.
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Design your own Calendar
Join us to make your very own spectacular 2018 balloon calendar.
Find out more »Art Gallery Tour
Join Peter Boughton, the museum’s Keeper of Art, to discover a rich array of paintings, sculpture and furniture spanning half a millennium of art.
Find out more »Techne: Exhibition Tour
Join Chris Millward, Technician Demonstrator in 3D from the University of Chester, for a guided tour of the exhibition which he has curated.
Find out more »The Swagger Portrait
Noun. swagger portrait. A portrait commissioned by someone rich or famous to emphasise their status, importance etc. Lots of scope there then, including pictures by celebrated portraitists working in the Grand Manner, but also many by artists celebrated for other subjects and styles.
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