Nantwich Museum staff have launched an appeal to find out more information on a prisoner of war camp near Tarporley.
They want more information about Racecourse Camp 74, which housed World War II Prisoners of War, after it recently received a hand-crafted document box.
Nantwich Museum will be closed to the public on both Tuesday and Wednesday May 10-11.
The closure will allow partition walls to be removed, providing more exhibition space in the main gallery.
A free Family Easter Workshop inspired by the Civil War will take place at Nantwich Museum on Wednesday April 6.
There will be a chance to handle weaponry and try on clothing.
“Movement”, a new free exhibition by Alex Jabore, has opened in the Millennium Gallery at Nantwich Museum to run until Saturday May 7.
Alex Jabore, a returning exhibitor, is a fine artist based in the Pennines who has established herself as a figurative painter of ballet and wildlife of the British Isles.
Nantwich Museum has appointed Ellie Bray in a newly created role of part-time development officer.
She has relevant experience working both as front of house assistant at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, and as exhibition and collections volunteer at Nantwich Museum.
Holly Holy Day events took place in Nantwich and Acton on Saturday, writes Jonathan White.
There was no battle re-enactment this year due to the pandemic.
“Neorenaissance”, a new exhibition by local artist Mark Sheeky, has opened in the Millennium Gallery at Nantwich Museum.
It will run until Saturday 5 March.
Nantwich residents are being asked to nominate “landmark” buildings and features in the town for a new Cheshire Local List of heritage assets.
Buildings like Nantwich Museum, Beam Street Almshouses and Players Theatre were named by town councillors last night as worthy inclusions.
Holly Holy Day in Nantwich is Saturday January 22 – the day residents celebrated the end in 1644 of the Royalist siege of the town by wearing a sprig of holly in their hats.
And while this year’s Battle of Nantwich re-enactment has been cancelled due to Covid, there are other events taking place to commemorate the occasion.
Nantwich Museum has unveiled its programme of walks for January and February 2022.
Options for the highly popular guided walks include a Town Tour, a Welsh Row Tour and a special Battle of Nantwich Tour.
“A Celebration of Stitch” textile art exhibition has opened in the Millennium Gallery at Nantwich Museum.
The exhibition by “Connected Threads” is to run until Saturday January 8, 2022.
The artistic talents of local school children will be displayed in a forthcoming exhibition, “Celebrating Creativity” at Nantwich Museum.
The exhibition will run from Tuesday October 26 until Saturday October 30.
Midwifery, other medical paraphernalia and rarely seen archives are on display at Nantwich Museum for just one more week.
Viewing of the “Ouch! A slightly horrible history of health and disease in Nantwich” exhibition at the museum ends on Saturday October 23.
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