Walsall Museum

Walsall Museum is a local history museum housing collections of industrial objects, including metalwork, locks, brass pieces, and chains from manufacturing sectors that defined the region across different time periods. The collections span generations of production, showing how local industries evolved and changed.

The museum was established in 1976 to preserve local industrial heritage and operated for nearly 40 years. Its collections were transferred to secure storage by Walsall Council in 2015, marking the end of this institution's public operation.

The Hodson Shop Collection displays unsold working-class clothing from the 1920s to 1960s, showing the everyday fashion and style of ordinary people during that era. These items offer a window into how people dressed and lived in those decades.

The collections are now managed by Walsall Council Museum Service and are kept in secure storage rather than on public display. To view or research items, visitors need to contact the council's museum team directly for access arrangements.

Among its unusual holdings, the museum preserved a taxidermied crocodile and a medical specimen of a child's arm discovered in 1870 at the White Hart Inn. These curious objects demonstrate how such institutions once held a wide range of items beyond typical industrial collections.

Location: Walsall

Inception: 1976

Address: Lichfield Street, Walsall WS1 1TR

Website: http://walsall.gov.uk/walsall_museum.htm

GPS coordinates: 52.58630,-1.97878

Latest update: December 14, 2025 11:03