Wrexham County Borough Museum & Archives

Inside one of Wrexham's landmark buildings, Wrexham County Borough Museum is the starting point for discovering the eventful history of this region on the English-Welsh border.

The museum's displays and collections tell the stories of Wrexham County Borough and its people from prehistory up to the present day.

From Quartermasters to Curators - The Museum has played many roles in the story of Wrexham.

The museum has towers like a castle because it was originally built in 1857 as a barracks for the local Royal Denbighshire Militia. The Militia's job was as much to control local people as fight foreign campaigns so the barracks were built close to the town centre.

The area around the barracks was very different to now: St Mark's Church stood on the site of the multi-storey carpark, Island Green was undeveloped save for the brewery, King Street was private houses and Sion and Bryn-y-ffynnon chapels lined the way into the heart of Wrexham.

Upstairs was the armoury and store room. Life in the town however calmed down compared to the revolutionary atmosphere of first half of the 19th Century so that the planned metal shutters for the armoury windows were never installed.