Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery is a local museum and art gallery in the town of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England.

The hall was named in honour of the British railway pioneer George Stephenson and the museum has a small collection of objects relating to Stephenson and his family. The museum is across the road from the Church of St Mary and All Saints, the parish church more popularly known as the Crooked Spire.

Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery

The museum, established in 1994, presents the history of Chesterfield from its origins as a Roman fort to the present. It is located on St Mary's Gate in the Stephenson Memorial Hall, dating from 1879 and originally built as a mechanics institute. Later this part of the building was used for the town's public library.

Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery

Chesterfield Museum is owned and operated by Chesterfield Borough Council.

Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery

See also

List of museums in Derbyshire

References

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Chesterfield Museum

Chesterfield Borough Council

School buildings completed in 1879

Art museums established in 1994

1994 establishments in England

Museums in Derbyshire

Local museums in Derbyshire

Art museums and galleries in Derbyshire

Buildings and structures in Chesterfield, Derbyshire