What. A. Day! Massive thank you to all at Curious Minds and the Young Event Producers who pulled all this together and put on such a great event 🙌 It was a pleasure to be a part of it!

It may be cold outside, but the #GrosvenorMuseum is warm and woolly, at least in our fabulous Crafted Christmas display! It's been designed and made by the Café Crafts group using knitting, crochet, macramé and embroidery 🧵 🧶 🪡 You can find it in the Museum's reception.

Etymology is fascinating 🤩 thanks Arabic!

This is incredible 🤩 I wish I’d had this level of dedication to some of my childhood projects! 📖 👀

Non-native English Speakers, what’s a word from your language that you think is perfect that doesn’t have an English equivalent? Take us to church.

This handkerchief dates to 1881 and imagines what society might look like if women had rights equal to men's. In 2023, women are athletes, scientists, judges, and lecturers, but the fight is far from over! #IWD2023 Learn more about the handkerchief: cwac.co/5aKGY

Oh I love these! 🤩 #youthengagement

Dusty Chipura Because time has the audacity to keep moving even when I'm not paying attention to it

This is the grand Neo-Gothic staircase at St Pancras Station in London. In 1967 it was ten days away from being demolished...

BIG CROWDFUNDING UPDATE! We have found our perfect space! It's a gorgeous pair of twin railway arches in East London. We have BIG plans for this space and we'll have the room to realise these plans. But there's a catch... gofundme.com/f/9um7y

🚨 Opportunity for actors! 🚨 The #GrosvenorMuseum Young Producers are looking for actors for their historic-ly fun event all about Chester’s Rows! We're looking for 4 actors to take on the roles of various characters from the Rows' unique history.

On 8 July, we’ll be exploring climate change through the ages with exhibitions and special events. Tickets are free, and information can be found here: cwac.co/Ddli9 🪨 Dig for fossils 🦕 Meet dinosaur experts 🔍 Hold real specimens 🎨 Draw your own sustainable cities

A little while ago I got a bursary to attend the Arts Marketing Association ‘Designing Diverse Destinations’ day, and I’ve written a short blog about it for MDNW - it was honestly quite difficult to condense the experience of the day into 750 words!

We're hiring! There's an exciting opportunity to join our Curatorial Team to assist in curating the West Cheshire Museums collections (predominantly Art and Silver but working with other collections where required).

Re-Living the Rows is a new free event taking place on Sunday, 30 July between 10am and 4pm. The event brings Chester's historic Rows to life by a group of performers taking on the roles of historic characters. Full details ➡️ cwac.co/4xf3M

It's like a Doctor Who episode in town today with Susannah Brown the founder of Browns back outside her shop, plus dinosaurs #chester

We're looking for young people to get involved at our museums! If you're aged 13-25 and would like to find out more about what goes on behind the scenes at museums, organise events, and help curate exhibitions, then this is the opportunity for you!

Day 30 of #Museum30 – Why museums? At West Cheshire Museums, we work to preserve and engage with the past, and put local communities and visitors at the heart of our collections, exhibitions and events. Which is why it is so lovely to see comments like these in our visitor books!

If you need a little peace and quiet in the run up to Christmas, step into the #GrosvenorMuseum's 'Twilight in the Winter Forest'! Take a look at some of our wintery collections, settle down for a story in the reading den, and make your own snowflakes and winter wishes!