Nantwich Museum

Collections focus on Cheshire's role in the English Civil War, and the area's history of salt production and cheese-making, as well as the manufacture of shoes, clothing and clocks.

[2] It is housed in the former public library of the town, which was built on the location of the former jail.

In one there is a cheese-making exhibition together with the Joseph Heler meeting room, presenting the history of Cheshire cheese, especially with respect to Nantwich.

[1] Artworks on display include Mr Walsh's Perdita, with jockey up, on Nantwich Racecourse by Benjamin Killingbeck, the only surviving portrayal of Nantwich Racecourse known,[6] a portrait of local historian James Hall by his son, Walter J.

Hall,[7] and works by the Nantwich artist Herbert St John Jones (1872–1939).