West Cheshire Museums is a diverse group of museums which includes a working watermill and a restored salt production site. To inspire our community and visitors to discover, explore and enjoy West Cheshire's rich heritage, culture and history. We will provide a fun, engaging and memorable visitor experience through the conservation and interpretation of the collections and buildings in our care.
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Once a workhouse, this unique building now has galleries dedicated to local and industrial history. Stretton Watermill was a working corn mill from 1351 until its last miller retired in 1959. Fully restored in 1977, it has been a museum ever since. Newly restored and with interactive, hands-on family fun centred around one of the area's most important trades.
Information on the services offered by our learning team, including sessions we offer, how to book, and travel information. Information for coach parties or other large groups that wish to visit one of our museums. Includes information on how to book, special services or tours, and travel and parking information.
West Cheshire Museums holds a wide range of collections, covering the history and prehistory of Chester and Cheshire. Our collections cover art, natural history and silver and include a large photography archive alongside a significant collection of archaeological artefacts. We hold a nationally important collection of Chester assayed silver, and an internationally important collection of Roman tombstones.
We have great spaces available to hire for meetings, lectures or film showings in four of our unique venues, all situated within Chester and west Cheshire. Click the boxes below for more information on the spaces and facilities available at each site. Available as a location for wedding photography and other commercial photography and film-making.
Unfortunately we aren't able to accept any applications for volunteering at the moment because we're closed. Please keep an eye on our main West Cheshire Museums homepage and get in touch as soon as we're open again. Speak to you soon! Find out more about the friends and societies that work with our museums, plus information on how to join them.
Reviews (8)
Nik Nic
Aug 12, 2021
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Gordon Fletcher
Jan 06, 2021
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Currently closed due to the COVID lockdown. A quirky and small museum based on the collecting tastes of 19th Century mill owners. Egyptian materials, some paintings and local materials. A mysterious bust in marble - presumably of one of the aforesaid mill owners who had sufficient money and hubris to believe an attached name plate would be unnecessary (or perhaps not enough money and modesty but the former is more likely to be true).
Michael West
Dec 23, 2019
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Brian Oliver
Nov 24, 2019
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Michelle Souness
Aug 05, 2019
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Paul Kennington
Sep 14, 2018
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Ladyluck Silk
Jun 06, 2018
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Rain Sam Chapple
Jul 06, 2017
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