What's on

Here you will find all of our current and upcoming events. You can also view our permanent exhibitions.

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Temporary exhibitions

All Temporary exhibitions
A close up of a woman looking at a painting with a magnifying glass.

Shifting Perspectives: Exploring Art Together

  • 22 March 2025 to 02 November 2025
A woman creating artwork with rubber stamps.

Shifting Perspectives: Reframing Our Art

  • 03 May 2025 to 23 July 2025

Events and activities

All Events and activities
An animal skull and old coin sat on a table.

Object Handling

  • 10 May 2025 to 20 December 2025
Shrapnel Boys: Life on the Home Front Museum Trail. Join us this May half term!

Shrapnel Boys Museum Trail

  • 26 May 2025
History Heroes Gem. May half term.

History Heroes: Saxons Week

  • 27 May 2025 to 29 May 2025
Volunteers working on their laptop while in the museum store.

Volunteers Week: Meet the Volunteers Day

  • 07 June 2025
Photos of various museum objects. Behind the objects is an out of focus picture of people sitting around round tables.

Memory Café

  • 09 June 2025 to 08 December 2025
A child finds an ammonite in the mud.

Found & Forgotten: Object ID drop-in

  • 05 July 2025

Talks and tours

All Talks and tours
A collage of Rosemary Rutherford's paintings next to a photo of Dr Catherine Pearson.

Rosemary Rutherford: War Artist and Designer

  • 21 June 2025
  • 02.00pm *
A woman with shoulder length brown hair and a patterned blue dress smiles at the camera while standing in the Shifting Perspectives exhibition.

Curator's Talk: Claire Willetts

  • 03 October 2025
  • 11.30am *

Member events

All Member events
The exterior of the Museum of Chelmsford.

Member Welcome Tour

  • 04 May 2025 to 08 October 2025
  • 11.00am *
Shelves of pottery inside the Museum of Chelmsford store.

Member Store Tour (September)

  • 17 September 2025
  • 11.00am *
An illustration of a train travelling through a field.

Member's Talk: Tirzah Garwood by James Russell

  • 18 October 2025
  • 11.30am *

Archive and past events

All Archive and past events
On the Road with Chelmsford Museum graphic

On the Road with Chelmsford Museum

  • 10 December 2020 to 30 November 2021
Chelmsford Museum Then and Now exhibition

Then and Now

  • 22 July 2022 to 25 September 2022
Forecast22

Forecast22: Broadcasting across the ether

  • 15 October 2022 to 14 October 2023
People carrying the colourful C100 flags through a field.

Chelmsford 100: Connecting hidden gems

  • 25 March 2023 to 04 June 2023
A selection of artwork with the text reading 'Behind the Rainbow'

Behind the Rainbow

  • 24 June 2023 to 29 October 2023
A black and white photo of JA Baker sitting on a log by the waterside.

Restless Brilliance: The Story of J.A. Baker and The Peregrine

  • 23 March 2024 to 23 February 2025