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 […]
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Museum is seeking to raise £600 to acquire a largely complete silver gilded double sided crucifix pendant dating to the medieval period (c.AD 1400-1550) that was discovered in nearby Hurleston. We plan to display this piece, of which we currently have no other example, alongside other locally discovered finds. The […]
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 […]
Have you ever walked down a road, and wondered how it got its name? A lot of Nantwich roads have unusual names, like Beatty Road, Chater Drive, Monck Drive and Stanley Boughey Place. To find out how these, and many other Nantwich roads got their name click here.