The Museum was delighted to win the South Cheshire Chamber of Commerce’s Ambassador of the Year 2024. The award recognizes businesses that have made a significant impact on the South Cheshire community and represent the area’s excellence to other regions. Museum staff Kate, Kerry and Emma attended the event, accepting […]
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Prisoner of War Exhibition Our latest Community Gallery exhibition is about World War II prisoners of war (POWs) held in local camps and hostels. There were 12 base camps in Cheshire during the war with numerous hostels housing low security, ‘non-officer rank’ men obliged to fight but who found themselves […]
Nantwich Museum is delighted to showcase a new quilt made by Jan Aldersay of local textile group ‘Connected Threads’ which has now been donated to the museum. This making of the quilt has been inspired by the Art Fund podcast “Meet Me At The Museum”, as well as her personal […]
Nantwich Museum has celebrated the town’s salt-making history by making salt in the Square by the traditional method of evaporating brine. Visitors were able to view the boiling of local brine similar to that taken from Nantwich’s Old Biot salt spring, which for centuries supplied the brine upon […]