Upcoming Events
Medieval Chester Retold
Step into medieval Chester and discover the story of a complex and diverse medieval city, told through everyday objects from the West Cheshire Museum’s collections.
Find out more »2D or not 2D…the Story of Art. Works by Adrian Sumner
An exhibition of new paintings exploring how 2D art relates to other art. Designed to challenge, entertain, amuse and expand your mind.
Find out more »Medieval Merriment
Explore the medieval world with us, including parchment writing, scented tuzzy muzzys and tiles!
Find out more »Medieval Merriment
Explore the medieval world with us, including parchment writing, scented tuzzy muzzys and tiles!
Find out more »Medieval Merriment
Explore the medieval world with us, including parchment writing, scented tuzzy muzzys and tiles!
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
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The Golden Age of Fairy Paintings
…and the reasons you should always beware Fairy Gold, and shouldn’t go with Fairies. Beautiful, Seductive, Poisonous and Deadly.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »Chester Heritage Festival- Lecture “Firm” Foundations
A lunchtime lecture introducing some key aspects of Chester’s natural heritage: its geology and physical landscape.
Find out more »Chester Heritage Festival- Lecture 3 R’s Romans, Rows & Revival
An illustrated lecture to provide an introductory overview of three key aspects that help give Chester its distinctive sense-of-place.
Find out more »Chester Heritage Festival – Lecture 20th -Century Chester
An illustrated lecture which considers some of the key developments and changes affecting Chester during the last century.
Find out more »Heritage Festival – Festival Finale – For Crying Out Loud!
Booking essential. Join Chester’s Town Crier, David Mitchell, for a colourful and potentially noisy evening. This show will feature some of the quirkier stories from Chester’s rich history together with the humorous adventures that befall a town crier. Tickets to be booked in advance: £10 and include interval drink.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »Festival for the Future: Family Film and GIANT Litter Pick
We’re partnering with Eco Communities to help keep our community clean and plastic-free. Enjoy a family-friendly screening of Wall-E at the Grosvenor Museum before heading out on a litter pick at nearby Grosvenor Park.
Find out more »Festival for the Future: Sustainability Festival
Join us for a jam-packed day of sustainability and climate action!
Find out more »Festival for the Future: Open Mic Night
Booking essential. Grab a drink from the Grosvenor Museum’s pop-up bar and enjoy a sensational evening of climate-themed performances, poems, readings, short plays and more.
Find out more »A History of Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels
The greatest creation of 20th Century visual art, or cheap trash which belongs in the bin?
Find out more »Object of the Month talk
Join us for our lunchtime look at our behind the scenes work, this month focussing on some fascinating glass from our archaeology collections.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »The BFG in Pictures
Quentin Blake’s original illustrations from Roald Dahl’s much-loved story, in an exhibition curated by the artist himself.
Find out more »Storytelling
To celebrate our BFG exhibition, younger visitors can enjoy a magical morning of storytelling in our whimsical giants’ cavern.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »Art Through Time
Make a mini version of a painting in the style of an historic artist!
Find out more »Surrealist Museum
Decorate a bust in a surrealist style – the only limit is your imagination!
Find out more »Dreams Around the World
Learn about how different cultures think about dreams, and make some dream-inspired crafts!
Find out more »Storytelling
To celebrate our BFG exhibition, younger visitors can enjoy a magical morning of storytelling in our whimsical giants’ cavern.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »Secrets and Spies
Go undercover at the museum this week… Try our code-breaking trail, plus make your own spy kit to take home!
Find out more »Secrets and Spies
Go undercover at the museum this week… Try our code-breaking trail, plus make your own spy kit to take home!
Find out more »Secrets and Spies
Go undercover at the museum this week… Try our code-breaking trail, plus make your own spy kit to take home!
Find out more »Look Out, There Are Giants About!
Transform yourself into a giant by making your own mask and huge pair of ears!
Find out more »Look Out, There Are Giants About!
Transform yourself into a giant by making your own mask and huge pair of ears!
Find out more »Look Out, There Are Giants About!
Transform yourself into a giant by making your own mask and huge pair of ears!
Find out more »Storytelling
To celebrate our BFG exhibition, younger visitors can enjoy a magical morning of storytelling in our whimsical giants’ cavern.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »Astounding Inventions
Discover old and new gadgets and inventions, designed to make life easier!
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »Café Crafts
Join us for our regular afternoon of craft and chat. Bring along your own project or feel free to join in with one of ours.
Find out more »