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Anson Engine Museum
As featured on TV, this multi award winning museum in the Cheshire Peak District has a great deal to offer visitors.
Recognised as one of the Country’s leading specialist museums. Fuelled by enthusiasm and staffed by volunteers it is a great day out for all the family.
Engine enthusiasts...
Type:
Museum
Location
Macclesfield
National Waterways Museum
Unlock the wonders of our waterways at National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port.
With its delightful waterside setting, flotillas of historic boats and fascinating displays housed in fine Victorian buildings, the museum is a great day out whatever the weather.
Visitors can take a boat...
Type:
Museum
Location
Ellesmere Port
Norton Priory Museum & Gardens
This 38-acre award-winning museum and gardens has a 2.5-acre Georgian Walled Garden with Rose Walk, herb garden, fruit garden, vegetable plots and herbaceous borders.
Norton is home to the largest Quince collection, this almost-forgotten fruit - with records dating back to 1275, the walled...
Type:
Museum
Location
Runcorn
Jodrell Bank Visitor Centre & 3D Theatre
The Jodrell Bank Visitor Centre is the visitor centre for the world famous Lovell Radio Telescope and the Jodrell Bank Observatory, the astronomy research centre of the University of Manchester.
A phased redevelopment of the visitor facilities at Jodrell Bank has commenced. Details of the plans...
Type:
Heritage / Visitor Centre
Location
Holmes Chapel
Nether Alderley Mill (NT)
A fascinating overshot tandem-wheel watermill, with heavy oak framework, low beams and floors connected by wooden ladders, all set beneath an enormous sloping stone roof to create the distinct rustic charm of this 15th century corn mill. One of only 4, virtually complete mills in Cheshire...
Type:
Water Mill
Location
Wilmslow
Tatton Park - The Old Hall
The atmospheric Old Hall was the original old manor house in the park. Built as a manor house at the turn of the fifteenth century the Old Hall presents a Tour Through Time, travelling through 500 years of occupancy.
The Old Hall is set in an enclosure in the parkland between the beautiful mere...
Type:
Museum
Location
Knutsford
The Salt Museum
Britain's only salt museum tells the fascinating story of Cheshire's oldest industry. Salt is essential to so many things in life - isn't it time that you found out why? There is also a temporary exhibition programme and events.
Type:
Museum
Location
Northwich
Silk Museum: Park Lane Galleries
Museum in a former school of art, looking at the properties of silk, design education, Macclesfield's other textile industries, social history and machinery.
Audio visual programmes and interactive gallery computer.
Temporary exhibition gallery.
Library and family history materials by...
Type:
Museum
Location
Macclesfield
Silk Museum: Paradise Mill
Silk Museum: Paradise Mill is an award-winning museum with 26 jacquard hand looms.
The mill has been restored to give an idea of working conditions during the 1930s when the mill prospered, including a design room and manager's office.
The shop sells silk products and novelties...
Type:
Museum
Location
Macclesfield
Silk Museum: Heritage Centre
Silk Museum: Heritage centre Galleries, in the magnificent Old Sunday School, built in 1814, is a new gallery displaying vibrant silk costumes from 1830 to the present day, haberdashery and manufacturers silk pattern books.
Choice lace and an interactive gallery computer complement and...
Type:
Heritage / Visitor Centre
Location
Macclesfield
Grosvenor Museum
Fascinating displays that build up a picture of Roman Chester. Go back in time to home life from the 17th century to the 1930s. Explore 'hands-on' the geology and natural history of the area. Enjoy the beauty of art, and discover the city's important place in silver history.
With an active...
Type:
Museum
Location
Chester
Anderton Boat Lift - Visitor Centre
The Operations Centre houses a fascinating interactive exhibition, explaining the history of the lift and its unique place in waterways history. There is a children's play area with a special maze constructed from the old counterweights. End the visit with a light snack followed by a browse in the...
Type:
Boat Trip
Location
Northwich
Lady Lever Art Gallery
The Lady Lever Art Gallery holds one of the most beautiful collections of fine and decorative arts in the country.
It was founded in 1922 by William Hesketh Lever, the first Lord Leverhulme in memory of his wife.
The gallery displays works collected by Leverhulme throughout his life. ...
Type:
Gallery
Location
Wirral
Chester History & Heritage
Chester History & Heritage is the first place to contact when you want to discover your Chester ancestors or find out about the history of Chester.
We have a variety of family and local history sources to help you in your search including:
General Register Office Index for England and Wales, 1837...Type:
Museum
Location
Chester
West Park Museum & Art Gallery
Founded in 1898 by the Brocklehurst family. A small, but significant collection of Egyptian antiquities and a range of fine and decorative arts and objects relating to the local history of the area.
A collection of paintings by C F Tunnicliffe and other artists.
Venue for a variety of...
Type:
Museum
Location
Macclesfield
The White Gallery
A contemporary art space in Bollington, Cheshire, exhibiting new and established artists from around the region. The gallery showcases the work of photographer (and owner of the gallery) Fiona Bailey. It also provides a high quality framing service, using only wood from sustainable sources.
Type:
Gallery
Location
Bollington
The Watergate Street Gallery (Of Art for All)
The Watergate Street Gallery celebrates 18 years in Chester.
The gallery opened in 1992 with just 100 pictures, it now displays over 1000 works, all beautifully framed.
Whatever your taste or budget you are sure to find a picture to suit your needs.
Choose from watercolours, pastels,...
Type:
Gallery
Location
Chester
The Bridgend Centre
The Bridgend Centre was established in 1990. Since then it has grown from strength to strength, widening its appeal to local people as the first point of contact for community matters.
The Bridgend Centre is a community cooperative, where everyone works together for the greater benefit of all....
Type:
Heritage / Visitor Centre
Location
Bollington
Museum of Science and Industry
Located on the historic site of the world’s oldest surviving passenger railway station, housed in five listed buildings, MOSI’s amazing galleries and outstanding collections tell the story of Manchester’s scientific and industrial past, present and future. In the textiles gallery working machinery,...
Type:
Museum
Location
Manchester
Mouldsworth Motor Museum
Away from the urban jungle, deep in the green heart of the Cheshire countryside, where enterprise and enthusiasm has fashioned the UK's friendliest motor museum. From the amazing 1930's Art Deco building to the fine detail of the exhibits, this is four-wheel heaven.
A historical haven stores a...
Type:
Museum
Location
Frodsham
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