Cheshire Military Museum — Attraction in Chester Castle

We visited here with our 9 year old son, it's not a massive museum, but we spent 90 minutes here, which could've been longer if we didn't have to meet some friends for lunch.

The collection covers a wide period of military history, with plenty of information about the exhibits.

The medal collection is as extensive as it is stunning, is well displayed and accessable and has the names of the original owners who were awarded the medals which is a really nice touch as some museums don't do this.

Lots of historic weapons on display, as well as some more modern types, some fantastic miniature scenes (see my pictures), a few video screens playing content as well as loads of other memorabilia.

For the price, it's well worth a visit if you're interested in...

Spent an hour here looking at what Cheshire soldiers did in the last few hundred years.There's a lot to read and there's some nice displays. Really liked the World War 1 & 2 exhibits like the bunker setpiece. Once these exhibitions are done, you wind back to the reception area. But it's not over. You can go outside. (There isn't any signage for this and if I hadn't been told about it, I would have missed it). Outside, there's a couple of military vehicles and then that leads onto another area about modern armed forced. I think that area could be a lot better. Feels like there's a lot more that could be put in there. Ended up buying a few things from the gift shop at...

Just called in at the last minute to see if they had anything from a couple of my ancestors, General David Anderson and his son Lt. Gen Sir Warren Hastings Anderson KCB... extremely helpful staff, and within 5 minutes, I found Hastings Medals. (I am still searching for Hastings uniform, which I know was donated somewhere and only found one medal for David so curious where his others are.) It is a very interesting museum and an absolute must to visit if you have any army interest or...