Grosvenor Museum

27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, Cheshire CH1 2DD

Tel: 01244 402008

website: www.chester.gov.uk/museums

At the Grosvenor Museum you can explore Roman life and death, domestic life of the 17th - 20th centuries, natural history and geology, social history and costume, art and silver, along with an exciting programme of special exhibitions and events. The natural history collections tell an important story about how the flora and fauna of Cheshire has changed over time. The Museum holds specimens from three section of natural sciences; botany, geology and zoology and are displayed to be accessible to a all age groups.

The social history of the City is told through Number 20 Castle Street, a typical example of a gentry townhouse. Within its walls there are period rooms showing life from Stuart times to the 1920s. It also houses the important Bressan recorders and a changing costume exhibition.

Chester is an important City in the history of silver and had its own assay office which tested all Chester made silver objects and marked them to show that they met the legal standard for the purity of the metal. The Museum houses a nationally important collection of Chester silver. In relation to fine arts; displayed in the Art Gallery are paintings connected with Cheshire, either by subject or by artist. There are also two special exhibition galleries with an exciting changing exhibition programme, along with related event and activities.