In 2021 Monmouthshire County Council announced plans to move the museum collection to the Shire Hall in Agincourt Square.

The five-year project, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, will see a new museum open at the Shire Hall by 2027.

[3] The collection also comprises some Nelson fakes, including a glass eye purported to be his, even though he had lost his sight, not the eyeball itself; it is a surgeon's teaching model.

Following a major fire in 1963 which destroyed the upper floor and cupola of the Market Hall, the site was refurbished and redesigned.

[10] The five-year project, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, will see a new museum open at the Shire Hall by 2027.