Weston Park Museum is the largest and oldest museum in Sheffield and a previous winner of The Guardian’s ‘Family Friendly Museum’ award. Sitting proudly as the focal point of Weston Park, the building has been through several construction and reconstruction projects and is well worth a
visit when in Sheffield.
Its first home was in Weston Hall, to which the gardens that became Weston Park belonged. After the hall was demolished in the 1930s, the museum was moved to the expanded Mappin Art Gallery in the park and became the Sheffield City Museum and Mappin Art Gallery. In this millennium alone, the museum has been through two extensive refurbishments, resulting in what is undoubtedly one of the city’s most prized assets.