Commanding Views A history of landscape Art |
18 May 16 |
Three Erddig Victorian Ladies |
17 May 16 |
5000 Yrs of land use in Upper Glen Almond |
27 Apr 16 |
Powerful Tombs The Medieval Living Dead |
27 Apr 16 |
Tombs of Terror: The Hunt for Weland |
20 Apr 16 |
Dead Relevant: 2016 Chester Arch Student Conference |
19 Apr 16 |
The Story of Bridge Street over 2000 years |
14 Apr 16 |
Tombs in Beowulf |
13 Apr 16 |
Chester Cathedral Estate |
13 Apr 16 |
Royal Progress of Queen EIizabeth 1st & King James on the move |
17 Mar 16 |
Memories of the Museum |
15 Mar 16 |
Cheshire Castles in Context |
12 Mar 16 |
A Charity Evening with So Rahman |
26 Feb 16 |
Welsh Artisan Painters & Chester Connections |
22 Feb 16 |
Faith Belief & Spirituality in Modern Art |
18 Feb 16 |
Last Surrender of the American Civil War in Liverpool |
13 Jan 16 |
Mother to the King: Lady Margaret Beaufort |
3 Dec 15 |
Suburban Sprawl High Rises & the search for Post War British Identity |
25 Nov 15 |
Americanisation in Berlin: Weimar Culture to Cold War Division |
18 Nov 15 |
Europeanisation of England in 11th & 12th c |
11 Nov 15 |
Arctic & Hebridean Odyssey |
2 Nov 15 |
Holiday-ed in North Wales |
17 Sep 15 |
The Poulton Project |
9 Sep 15 |
Habitats and Hillforts |
22 Aug 15 |
Picturing the British Holiday |
17 Aug 15 |
Lithic Assemblages from the Sandstone Ridge |
22 Jul 15 |
Rembrandt and Vermeer: From Darkness to Light |
8 Jul 15 |
Open Art Exhibition Tour |
20 May 15 |
Horseshoes & Nails, Sharp & Blunt Knives - High Court Ceremonial |
19 May 15 |
The Hidden Persuaders |
13 May 15 |
Charles Darwin's La Belle Fanny |
16 Apr 15 |
Louise Rayner Exhibition Tour |
31 Mar 15 |
Eighteenth Century Liverpool Porcelain |
19 Mar 15 |
Randolph Caldecott: A Great Victorian Illustrator |
17 Feb 15 |
The Aesthetic Movement |
13 Feb 15 |
High & Broad Walls with many Towers & Bulwarks |
4 Feb 15 |
Chester's role during the English Civil War |
28 Jan 15 |
Exploring Medieval Chester |
21 Jan 15 |
The Resurgam - A Submarine that foundered off Rhyl in 1880 & still rests there today |
12 Jan 15 |
Picturesque Chester: The City in Art |
7 Jan 15 |
Scandimania: The Art of Scandinavia Study Day |
29 Nov 14 |
Cian Quayle: Artist Journeys |
26 Nov 14 |
The History of British Theatre |
26 Nov 14 |
Contemporary China through Chinese Opera |
19 Nov 14 |
A Corner of Some Foreign Field |
10 Nov 14 |
Chester College: From Teacher Training to University 1974-2014 |
29 Oct 14 |
The Eccleston Project |
23 Oct 14 |
Chester College: The Transformative Years 1914-1974 |
22 Oct 14 |
Chester College: The Formative Years 1839-1914 |
15 Oct 14 |
Cheshire through the Seasons |
14 Oct 14 |
Heronbridge: From Romans to Roundheads with a battle in between |
4 Oct 14 |
The Art of War |
1 Oct 14 |
Beyond Heronbridge, Town Country, People & Livelihoods in Roman Cheshire |
18 Sep 14 |
From Tonks to Today: 100 Years of drawing medicine & conflict |
16 Sep 14 |
Heronbridge in its local & regional setting |
3 Sep 14 |
Rediscovering the Lost casualties of the Battle of Chester |
23 Jul 14 |
The Sacred Art of Mongolia |
27 May 14 |
The History of St John the Baptist - Chester's First Cathedral |
27 Apr 14 |
Every Picture tells a story |
23 Apr 14 |
Beneath the Painted Smile: A Survey of Faces in Art |
14 Apr 14 |
Photography: Truth or Dare |
2 Apr 14 |
Randolph Caldecott: A Great Victorian Illustrator |
19 Mar 14 |
The Fine Art of Crime |
13 Mar 14 |
The dead at Chester Cathedral |
12 Mar 14 |
Depicting the dead and dying in early medieval art |
5 Mar 14 |
Feasting with Latinus |
26 Feb 14 |
Chirk Castle - The Howard de Walden Years 1911-1948 |
18 Feb 14 |
A Girl called Anne - Anne Clifford & Anne Murray |
12 Dec 13 |
Victorian Christmas Music with 'Blast from the Past' |
11 Dec 13 |
Geology & the Chester Society of Natural Science |
11 Dec 13 |
Who's Afraid of Abstract Art |
4 Dec 13 |
Chester Odeon & the World of Art Deco |
30 Nov 13 |
Charles Kingsley: A Victorian Naturalist |
27 Nov 13 |
Not Just Constable & Turner; A History of Landscape Art |
14 Nov 13 |
Robert Newstead FRS & The Grosvenor Museum |
13 Nov 13 |
Professor Newstead & The Grosvenor Museum |
4 Nov 13 |
Christian Vikings: Rune Stones as Material Culture |
23 Oct 13 |
Lapskaus is Scouse |
17 Oct 13 |
Tombs of the Vikings? Hogback Tombs Revisited |
16 Oct 13 |
Islay - Queen of the Hebrides |
14 Oct 13 |
Revolution |
10 Oct 13 |
Death & The Vikings |
9 Oct 13 |
Francis I of France: Renaissance Prince & Patron |
12 Sep 13 |
Turrets & Battlements: The Fortifications of North Wales & Cheshire in Art |
9 Sep 13 |
Herbs & Remedies in a Medieval City |
30 Aug 13 |
Cheshire Myths & Legends |
2 Aug 13 |
Discover Medieval Chester Lecture |
25 Jul 13 |
Life in Medieval Chester |
2 Jul 13 |
What did the Chester Mystery Plays look like ? |
20 Jun 13 |
Pilgrimage in Medieval Cheshire |
4 Jun 13 |
Pilgrimage in Medieval Cheshire |
4 Jun 13 |
The Voyages of Captain Cook |
15 May 13 |
The Medieval Collections of Cheshire West Museums |
1 May 13 |
English (in)hospitality? Political & popular responses to Jewish Refugees from Nazism |
1 May 13 |
Englishness under Fire: The Great War and English identity |
24 Apr 13 |
AGM + How to be a Medieval Monk |
18 Apr 13 |
Thomas Carlyle, Ireland, and the Condition of England |
17 Apr 13 |
Learning to see again: How Modern Art survived the new toxic visual culture |
28 Mar 13 |
Chester's Canal Age |
19 Mar 13 |
Victorian Social Realist Art |
13 Mar 13 |
Picturesque Chester: The City in Art |
27 Feb 13 |
English Civil War: Battle of Rowton Moor & Siege of Chester 1642-46 |
19 Feb 13 |
The Art of the Jazz Age |
22 Jan 13 |
Ann Hathaway: Will's Wife |
13 Dec 12 |
Extinction |
13 Dec 12 |
Magritte, Dali, a fish: the arc of Surrealism |
5 Dec 12 |
Neo Romantic Artists in Britain 1935-55 |
21 Nov 12 |
Social Realism in British Post-War Culture |
14 Nov 12 |
Liverpool: City of Delights |
13 Nov 12 |
The Journey Man: Storytelling & Booksigning |
10 Nov 12 |
On the Brink! The Cuban Missile Crisis |
7 Nov 12 |
A 600 yr history of Cheshire & the UK |
1 Nov 12 |
Dark Stories at the Tower |
31 Oct 12 |
Virginia Ironside:Growing Old Disgracefully |
26 Oct 12 |
The Art of Robin Ironside |
23 Oct 12 |
Pope Hadrian IV 1154-1159;The most important Englishman of the Middle Ages |
9 Oct 12 |
Blood & Fire: The Art of Spain |
26 Sep 12 |
The Habit and the Horse |
13 Sep 12 |
Paint Run Mad: The Post-Impressionist Exhibition of 1910 |
12 Sep 12 |
Horses in War through History |
30 Aug 12 |
The Roodee Racecourse |
23 Jun 12 |
The Reins of Power: A History of the Horse in Art |
14 Jun 12 |
The Art of the Olympics |
7 Jun 12 |
Dealing with the dead: Mortuary practices in Mesolithic north west Europe |
9 May 12 |
Picture This! Exploring depictions of people in early medieval Northern Europe |
2 May 12 |
Symbols & Signs? Discovering prehistoric phallic objects |
25 Apr 12 |
Royal Portraits: Image & Impact |
28 Mar 12 |
the Art of Michael Sandle: Time, Memory & Allegory |
21 Mar 12 |
Early Stuart Chester as a Centre for Regional Painting |
13 Mar 12 |
Medieval Queenship: Ideal & Reality |
8 Feb 12 |
The Rise & Fall of Edward II |
1 Feb 12 |
A town most Royal: Illustrating Chester's links with the Monarchy |
25 Jan 12 |
Arts & Cultures of the Mediterranean |
11 Jan 12 |
Mary Queen of Scots - Daughter of Debate |
14 Dec 11 |
Pigs, Pots, Swords & Stones: Treasures of the Early History Collections |
30 Nov 11 |
Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession |
23 Nov 11 |
Nuts & Bolts? In Cheshire ? |
16 Nov 11 |
The English Kitchen & Kitchen Garden 1500-1700 |
16 Nov 11 |
William Morris Study Day |
12 Nov 11 |
Williams & Williams & Schoolboy Memories of Chester in WWII |
18 Oct 11 |
Sir Thomas Egerton: Keeper of the Queen's Conscience |
12 Oct 11 |
The Gladstone Family: People & Places |
21 Sep 11 |
If these Walls could talk! Problems & discoveries of Chester's City Walls |
14 Sep 11 |
Silver Gallery Tour |
7 Sep 11 |
John Douglas |
25 Aug 11 |
Beneath our Feet: 125 years of archaeological discovery in Chester |
6 Aug 11 |
Views from the Walls |
3 Aug 11 |
Chester on Film |
12 Jul 11 |
Art Gallery Tour |
30 Jun 11 |
Louise Rayner |
16 Jun 11 |
Law & Order in 14th Century Cheshire |
25 May 11 |
Open Art Exhibition Tour |
24 May 11 |
The Legacy of Vietnam |
24 May 11 |
Creating an Irish Ireland: Cultural Life after the War of Independence |
18 May 11 |
The Dark Shadow of Defeat: Germany after the First World War |
11 May 11 |
A History of Music Hall in Words & Song |
28 Apr 11 |
Visions of Rome: Piranesi & the Forum |
20 Apr 11 |
Caravaggio: Temptation & Redemption |
22 Mar 11 |
The Wirral's Dee Villages |
14 Mar 11 |
Great Painters of the Baroque |
8 Mar 11 |
Glimpses of Grandeur: Exhibition Tour |
1 Mar 11 |
The Royal Charter, Chester built treasure ship wrecked on Anglesey |
15 Feb 11 |
The Failures of James VII & II 1685-88 |
9 Feb 11 |
Thirty Smiles to the Gallon |
7 Feb 11 |
The rise & fall of 'Queen Dick' Richard Cromwell & his Protectorate |
2 Feb 11 |
Silver Gallery Tour |
26 Jan 11 |
Geodiversity & Geoconservation in Cheshire |
26 Jan 11 |
The Most successful failure of the middle ages: Richard Duke of York (1411-1460) |
26 Jan 11 |
A Civil War Odyssey |
14 Dec 10 |
A Civil War Odyssey |
14 Dec 10 |
From Sheep to Shawl |
9 Dec 10 |
The Vikings at Home |
1 Dec 10 |
Northern Lights: Edvard Munch & the Art of Scandinavia |
24 Nov 10 |
In Search of the Vikings |
20 Nov 10 |
Chester & Cheshire's Early Medieval Sculpture in Context |
18 Nov 10 |
Art Deco Study Day |
13 Nov 10 |
Weirdstone Wizardry |
29 Oct 10 |
The Vikings in the North West |
26 Oct 10 |
Cheshire Gentry - The Impact on Our Land |
26 Oct 10 |
Cheshire Gentry- The Impact on our Land |
26 Oct 10 |
Cheshire Folk Songs & Tales |
22 Oct 10 |
By 7 Firs & Goldenstone |
20 Oct 10 |
Cheshire Myths & Legends |
19 Oct 10 |
Randolph Caldecott 1846-1886: A Great Victorian Illustrator |
16 Oct 10 |
Sixty Favourite Paintings |
6 Oct 10 |
Living Gladstone's Heritage, Gladstone's Living Heritage |
13 Sep 10 |
Living Gladstone's Heritage, Gladstone's Living Heritage |
13 Sep 10 |
Change & Continuity: Chester in the Georgian Age |
9 Sep 10 |
Beowulf |
14 Aug 10 |
If these Walls could talk! |
28 Jul 10 |
Archaeology Day at the Museum |
25 Jul 10 |
Pigs, Pots, Swords & Stones: The Early History Collections of the Grosvenor Museum |
21 Jul 10 |
Commanding Views: A History of Landscape Art |
14 Jul 10 |
PANDA Spotlight On: Opportunities in Film for Performing Arts Practioners |
3 Jun 10 |
Wedgwood & The English Country House |
27 May 10 |
Wedgwood and the English Country House |
27 May 10 |
Wedgwood & The English Country House |
27 May 10 |
Lead Mining in North-East Wales |
15 May 10 |
Lead Mining in North-East Wales |
15 May 10 |
AGM & Liverpool Overhead Railway |
28 Apr 10 |
Habitats & Hillforts in Cheshire |
14 Apr 10 |
Portrait of a Lady |
30 Mar 10 |
Chester Zoo - The Beginnings & Now |
8 Feb 10 |
Origin of Mercian Burhs |
3 Feb 10 |
Robert Newstead & The Grosvenor Museum |
21 Jan 10 |
Robert Newstead & The quest for Roman Chester |
14 Jan 10 |
2000 Years in the Life of Bridge Street Chester |
12 Jan 10 |
Art Gallery Tour |
12 Jan 10 |
Venice: The Serene Republic |
9 Dec 09 |
Jane Lane, the Guardian of the Crown |
8 Dec 09 |
Jane Lane: The Guardian of the Crown |
8 Dec 09 |
Historical Dramalogue |
3 Dec 09 |
Moods & Sensations Exhibition Tour |
2 Dec 09 |
Art Treasures of New York |
28 Nov 09 |
Museum Residency Artist Shows & Tells |
26 Nov 09 |
Lecture by artist Stephen Broadbent |
11 Nov 09 |
Clothes from a Vanished World |
9 Nov 09 |
Manmythgeniusmonster |
4 Nov 09 |
Family History through Fashion & Photographs |
22 Oct 09 |
Come & Hear how Artists Work |
15 Oct 09 |
The Sublime & The Ridiculous: A Look at Victorian Painting |
5 Oct 09 |
The Sublime and the Ridiculous |
5 Oct 09 |
Charles Darwin |
5 Oct 09 |
Everyday Miracles: Dutch Painting of the Golden Age |
22 Sep 09 |
Art Gallery Tour |
15 Sep 09 |
The Big Shop: |
10 Sep 09 |
The People of Roman Chester |
9 Sep 09 |
Mapping Medieval Chester |
29 Aug 09 |
Punch & Judy |
12 Aug 09 |
Chester : A History |
28 Jul 09 |
Archaeology Study Session |
23 Jul 09 |
Ancient Meols |
9 Jul 09 |
The artist in the Streets of Chester |
17 Jun 09 |
Grennan & Sperandio |
11 Jun 09 |
Dating Victorian Photographs |
9 Jun 09 |
Open Art Exhibition Tour |
3 Jun 09 |
The Shock of the New: Modernism in Art |
28 May 09 |
Russian Applied Arts: Tradition and Innovation |
19 May 09 |
Thomas Brassey, Railway Builder |
14 May 09 |
Leading the Field |
13 May 09 |
Memories: Painting Time and Place in Russian Art |
23 Apr 09 |
Louise Rayner Exhibition Tour |
21 Apr 09 |
Die Zeitgeist: A History of German Art |
15 Apr 09 |
Misericords: The Medieval World Turned Upside-Down |
7 Apr 09 |
Revolution: A history of French Art |
1 Apr 09 |
Silver Gallery Tour |
26 Mar 09 |
David Hockney The Old Master of the Modern world |
24 Mar 09 |
From Today painting is deadA history of Photography |
18 Mar 09 |
Chester Before the Romans |
11 Mar 09 |
The Wirral - A Viking Kingdom |
3 Mar 09 |
Oh My Poor Nerves! |
2 Feb 09 |
The Importance of the Grosvenor Museum & the Geological History of Cheshire |
14 Jan 09 |
John Gerard & His Herbal: Folklore, Wisdom & medicine |
14 Jan 09 |
The Importance of the Grosvenor Museum and the Geological History of Cheshire |
14 Jan 09 |
Stories & Structures; Exhibition Tour |
7 Jan 09 |
St Petersburg Study Day |
22 Nov 08 |
Representation & Abstraction: Exhibition Tour |
12 Nov 08 |
Evacuees Reunion |
6 Nov 08 |
Driven to Abstraction |
5 Nov 08 |
Buried Beneath Brymbo: The Fascinating Fossil Forest |
1 Nov 08 |
Buried Beneath Brymbo: The Fascinating Fossil Forest |
28 Oct 08 |
A History of Changing Women's Fashions |
24 Oct 08 |
In the Eye of the beholder |
19 Oct 08 |
Francis Bacon's Art of Distortion |
14 Oct 08 |
Liverpool's Two Cathedrals |
6 Oct 08 |
The Reins of Power: A History of the horse in Art |
1 Oct 08 |
The Reins of Power: A History of the Horse in Art |
1 Oct 08 |
Art Gallery Tour |
24 Sep 08 |
Old Japan & its Transformation into a Modern state |
18 Sep 08 |
A Pastoral Idyll? Images of Landscape in western Art |
17 Sep 08 |
Chester's Glorious Churches: A Celebration in Art |
10 Sep 08 |
Cheshire Parks & Gardens: Exhibition Tour |
11 Jun 08 |
Why Gardens are Special Places Talk |
5 Jun 08 |
Gustav Klimt & the Vienna Secession |
28 May 08 |
The Stonehenge Experiment |
21 May 08 |
Exploiting the Heritage-The Middlewich Project |
12 May 08 |
Exploiting the Heritage - The Middlewich Project |
12 May 08 |
Recent Excavations in Chester |
23 Apr 08 |
The Falklands War |
10 Apr 08 |
3rd commando Brigade in the Falklands War |
10 Apr 08 |
Chester & Anglesea in Late 11th century |
26 Mar 08 |
Chester Medieval Mystery Plays |
5 Mar 08 |
The Chester Medieval Mystery Plays |
5 Mar 08 |
Thomas Harrison Architect |
9 Feb 08 |
Thomas Gainsborough - a very original genius |
5 Feb 08 |
Thomas Gainsborough - A Very original genius |
5 Feb 08 |
English Caricature from Hogarth to Punch |
15 Jan 08 |
David's Adventures in Durham |
5 Jan 08 |
Victorian Christmas |
12 Dec 07 |
The Blaze of Glory |
5 Dec 07 |
Victorian Chester |
5 Dec 07 |
Shakespeare's Dark Lady |
4 Dec 07 |
Location of Castles in early Norman England |
1 Dec 07 |
The Victorian Age |
28 Nov 07 |
The Cat's Pyjamas |
14 Nov 07 |
Fearsome & Immoderate - The Soldiers of the 20th Legion |
3 Nov 07 |
Every Picture Tells A Story - Illustration, Prints & narrative art |
17 Oct 07 |
Feast & Famine: eating & drinking 1500-1700 |
3 Oct 07 |
The Crystal World: Early Flemish Painting & the Northern Renaissance |
30 May 07 |
Panels Pigments & Paints: Making Masterpieces |
23 May 07 |
The Tunnels of Joseph Williamson |
23 May 07 |
Searching for the Real King Arthur |
23 May 07 |
Faith & Beauty: Christian Symbolism in Northern Renaissance Art |
9 May 07 |
Recent Archaeological Work in Cheshire |
25 Apr 07 |
Life & Death in Roman Chester |
19 Apr 07 |
Early Monastic Sites |
28 Mar 07 |
Pastel Demonstration with George Thompson |
21 Mar 07 |
The Silk Road |
5 Mar 07 |
Occupational Topography of Late Medieval Chester |
10 Feb 07 |
Crime & Punishment in Chester |
6 Feb 07 |
The Origins of Football, cricket & Tennis |
24 Jan 07 |
English Caricature |
15 Jan 07 |
Thoughts & Observations on the Significance of Roman Civilisation |
6 Jan 07 |
A Long Way from Home |
4 Dec 06 |
Chester Amphitheatre |
2 Dec 06 |
Limouse,Matisse & Modernism |
15 Nov 06 |
The Fin-de-Siecle & the Style Anglais |
8 Nov 06 |
Human Origins |
4 Nov 06 |
17th Century Voices: Document Workshop |
20 Oct 06 |
Continential Symbolism - The Savage Chimaera |
18 Oct 06 |
Baudelaire & Limouse |
16 Oct 06 |
Baudelaire Symposium |
14 Oct 06 |
Stories from a retired Bishop's Wife |
11 Oct 06 |
Images from 'Les Fleurs du Mal' |
4 Oct 06 |
Stop the Rot - New Life for Buildings at Risk |
4 Oct 06 |
Rembrandt, Painter of Souls |
27 Sep 06 |
Liverpool Pier Head Promenade |
7 Sep 06 |
Creative & Colourful Stories |
5 Aug 06 |
The Chester Amphitheatre Project |
8 May 06 |
The Peacock Fan Revisited |
26 Apr 06 |
The Saving of Erddig Hall |
6 Apr 06 |
Colour: A Miscellaneous History |
29 Mar 06 |
The Sparkle of Silver & The Gleam of Gold |
13 Mar 06 |
David Hillhouse Selected Paintings A Closer Look |
2 Mar 06 |
Samos & Ikaria: Nature's Wild Gardens |
15 Feb 06 |
Do Mention the War! |
8 Feb 06 |
Recent Discoveries at Chester's Roman Amphitheatre |
16 Aug 05 |
The Roman Gladiator |
12 Jul 05 |
Art Gallery Tour |
25 May 05 |
All Human Life - The Kaleidoscope of Victorian Painting |
24 May 05 |
Tour of Grosvenor Museum's 6th Open Art Exhibition |
20 May 05 |
Reflections & Projections |
18 May 05 |
Silver Gallery Tour |
11 May 05 |
Rethinking Reality - the New Academy of St Petersbury |
4 May 05 |
Painting with Light |
30 Mar 05 |
The Chester Amphitheatre Project |
16 Mar 05 |
The Poetry of the City |
16 Mar 05 |
Funnyface - Exhibition Tour |
5 Mar 05 |
Frozen in Time - the whys & wherefores of still life painting |
2 Mar 05 |
The Royal & Ancient Game: 800 years of Golf 1120-1920 |
14 Feb 05 |
Bhutan: The Last Buddhist Kingdom |
26 Jan 05 |
Locating & Developing Practice |
12 Jan 05 |
Farewell to Lord Derby |
8 Dec 04 |
A Journey in Black & White |
4 Oct 04 |
The making of the Lady Lever art gallery |
9 Sep 04 |
Messing about on the River |
17 Aug 04 |
