Museum service overview
Staffordshire County Museum Service
Staffordshire County Council returned management of the Shugborough Estate to the National Trust in November 2016. County Museum collections continue to be on display in the Servants' Quarters and at Shugborough Park Farm. Meanwhile, the County Museum Service reserve collections have been transferred to new, improved stores in the Stafford area.
A programme of ongoing exhibitions and displays at the Staffordshire History Centre spotlight items from the County Museum Collections alongside documents and items from the County Archive Collection and William Salt Library Collection.
We also have a programme of touring exhibitions and outreach activities across Staffordshire. For details of our programmes please visit the Staffordshire History website.
If you have any items that you think could be added to our collection please contact Chris Copp, Collections Manager chris.copp@staffordshire.gov.uk
Museum collections on-line
Staffordshire Past track
The past track website has over 45,000 resources about the history and heritage of Staffordshire, including photographs, paintings, film clips, audio clips, documents and more. The site was redesigned with new features in 2015.
Find out more about past track, or visit the Archives and Heritage Facebook page.
Gateway to the past
The online catalogue of our arts and museum collections. It contains our entire collection and also provides access to the collections of the Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent archive service and the William Salt Library.
Find out more about the gateway to the past.
Museum talks programme
We offer a talks programme on a range of subjects, and we can travel anywhere within Staffordshire, but will charge travel costs for outside the county. Talks are popular, so please book them at least six months in advance.
For more information or to book a talk, please contact us.