Step into Chester's past at our Medieval Object Drop-In Handling Workshop. Explore authentic artefacts alongside the Historic Towns Trust map of Chester, uncovering untold stories. Enjoy hands-on, creative activities for all ages: touch history, make, draw, and imagine the medieval city together.
This led walk, which is also "wheels accessible", is one of four themed routes staged as part of the 2026 "Festival of ideas" that uses examples from the existing cityscape to demonstrate various aspects of the overall theme of 'Sustainability'.
Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon is Wales's most iconic mountain, hosting 650,000 visitors each year. This exhibition takes us on a journey that considers the past, present, and sustainable future of the mountain.
Lace up your plimsoles and sprint through the last century of Cheshire’s sporting past with Let’s Talk, History. Using historic sound recordings from Cheshire Archives’ collections, this free audio trail tells 100 years of stories about the county’s competitive, recreational and, at times, amusing sports.
This is a participatory art work inviting visitors to sit, pause, and write a promise of peace for themselves, someone they love, or the wider world. You may keep it, dissolve it in water, or place it in a box.
This exhibition invites you into a living lab where the roots of indigenous knowledge meet the flows of water, soil and climate change. Through photographs and voices from wetlands and mountains, the exhibition shows how long standing traditional practices - from reading soils and water levels to shaping wetlands and planting patterns - are active, evolving tools for environmental management today.
Does it feel like you are seeing more extreme weather? The science suggests we might be heading for a 3 degree world, but action globally doesn't suggest people are concerned. So what is the truth? Join me as I explore the different pathways we could follow over this century depending on whether we act now or delay action to mitigate climate change.
Come and join us for a family friendly event with Greg Jenner exploring how, why, and when the Romans first invaded.
The session is built around Captain Knowledge and Graphic Leadership, projects that were undertaken to make academic literature/theory/research more accessible.
Join curators at the Grosvenor Museum for a talk exploring the future of our museums. How might they look 50, 100 years from now? What might we collect, and which stories might we tell? How might the role of museums need to evolve as society and our audiences change?
Join Chester Zoo to discover how communities across Cheshire West are connecting habitats, monitoring wildlife, and transforming local spaces through the Networks for Nature initiative.
In this packed workshop, get your hands on wonderfully decorated Victorian and modern teacups and saucers, design and make your own, taste hot world teas while learning about the health benefits of tea drinking, learn about the environmental footprint of tea today.