The holdings of Walsall Museum ranged from seventeenth-century firemarks to twenty-first century posters.
[1] The collections were placed in secure storage and remain under the care of Walsall Council's Museum Service.
[2] Walsall Museum’s collection included products of local industries, particularly those of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as curios and costume.
The arm was discovered in 1870 and thought to be a 'hand of glory', but tests showed it to be a medical specimen that has been injected with the preservative formalin.
[3] There were also a few items relating to famous Walsall figures including the local author Jerome K. Jerome, the nursing pioneer Sister Dora and John Henry Carless, a recipient of the Victoria Cross in the First World War.