Walsall Leather Museum

Walsall Leather Museum Working museum which tells the story of Walsall's historic leather trade. Admission to the museum is free.

It’s taken a couple of days to post these as we went straight into running our monthly Stitchers and Skivers craft group...
10/04/2026

It’s taken a couple of days to post these as we went straight into running our monthly Stitchers and Skivers craft group yesterday but here are just a few of the fabulous clay sheep from Wednesday’s drop-in activity.
Wonderful potter and craftsperson, Kate Tilley, led the amazing activities on Wednesday that saw nearly 200 people come through the sessions!! She truly was a Wonder Woman that day and I don’t think she ever stopped smiling.
Thanks too to all the wonderful families who took part - we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
If you have any photos of the day, we’d love to see them in the comments below 👌

Last chance to take part in one of our Easter activities - Kate Tilley will be running sessions from 10.30-12.30 & 1.30 ...
08/04/2026

Last chance to take part in one of our Easter activities - Kate Tilley will be running sessions from 10.30-12.30 & 1.30 - 3.30 today (Wednesday 8th April). It costs £1.50 per child. We look forward to seeing you 😀

Here’s some more of the gorgeous Happy Hens that were made at our Leathercraft Drop-In yesterday. We were so busy, we co...
02/04/2026

Here’s some more of the gorgeous Happy Hens that were made at our Leathercraft Drop-In yesterday. We were so busy, we couldn’t capture all of them but we thought they were all fantastic! Our next Easter drop-in is on Wednesday April 8th and is a pottery sheep drop-in with Kate Tilley. Drop-in any time between 10.30-12.30 & 1.30-3.30 and it costs £1.50 per child.

Our Easter opening hours are as follows:
Good Friday April 3rd - closed
Saturday April 4th - open 10am - 5pm
Sunday April 5th - closed
Bank Holiday Monday April 6th - closed
Tuesday April 7th - Saturday April 11th open 10am - 5pm open as normal.

We’ve had fantastic couple of days with over 300 people taking part in our special Easter drop-in sessions making rabbit...
01/04/2026

We’ve had fantastic couple of days with over 300 people taking part in our special Easter drop-in sessions making rabbit puppets and Happy Hen keyrings ❤️ Thank you all so much for coming. Here are just a few photographs from the sessions and we’ll try to upload more. But if you have any of your own photos - we’d love to see them. Please add them in comments 🐇🐓

We’re all ready for the first of our Easter family activities which start tomorrow (Tuesday 31 March) with our Easter Bu...
30/03/2026

We’re all ready for the first of our Easter family activities which start tomorrow (Tuesday 31 March) with our Easter Bunny Puppet Drop-In. Then on Wednesday we have our Happy Hen Keyring Drop-In. The sessions on both days run 10.30-12.30 & 1.30-3.30 and cost £1.50 per child.
We’re egg-cited to welcome you this Easter 🐇🐓😀

Get hands-on and creative at Walsall Leather Museum this April with fun and affordable activities for all ages! 🎉 We hav...
26/03/2026

Get hands-on and creative at Walsall Leather Museum this April with fun and affordable activities for all ages! 🎉

We have various drop-in activities with no need to book – just come along and join in!

📍 Have-A-Go Leathercraft and creating a Happy Hen Keyring:

🗓️ Wednesday 1 April 2026 | ⏰ 10.30am–12.30pm & 1.30pm–3.30pm | 🎟️ £1.50 per person

Create your very own leather keyring in this fun, Easter-themed session.

📍 Pottery Drop-in with Kate Tilley:

🗓️ Wednesday 8 April 2026 | ⏰ 10.30am–12.30pm & 1.30pm–3.30pm | 🎟️£1.50 per person

Join artist Kate Tilley and craft your own pottery sheep in this popular hands-on workshop.

Visit our website to view the full event listings: 🔗https://go.walsall.gov.uk/newsroom/enjoy-your-2026-easter-holidays-activities-walsalls-leather-museum-and-art-gallery

We’re preparing to relocate the Leather Museum from Littleton Street West to a new town centre home at 1–3 The Bridge. T...
11/03/2026

We’re preparing to relocate the Leather Museum from Littleton Street West to a new town centre home at 1–3 The Bridge. The purchase of the building was completed this week.

The building (originally a drapers store) offers a flexible, open‑plan space with a prominent corner frontage and large windows. Its position next to the Leather Skills Centre also brings new opportunities to help people reconnect with Walsall’s leather‑making heritage.

📆 The museum’s final day of opening at the current site will be Saturday, 11 April 2026.

All planned Easter activities will still take place.

During the transition:

📚 Collections:

Our collections, including the specialist library and around 600 historic books, catalogues and photographs, will be carefully packed and securely stored by specialist teams.

🎨 Community groups:

Groups currently hosted at the museum will continue to be supported. The Stitchers Group will temporarily meet at The New Art Gallery Walsall.

We’ll continue to share updates as work progresses on the new site.

Our Walsall

🙏 A huge thank you to the amazing Carl Chinn MBE for his insightful talk exploring the subject of his new book - Peaky B...
06/03/2026

🙏 A huge thank you to the amazing Carl Chinn MBE for his insightful talk exploring the subject of his new book - Peaky Blinders: The Real Gangs and Gangsters.

📖 We were delighted to welcome Carl today to the Leather Museum. He drew on his decades of expertise, and even some of his own family history, to give an insight into what life was really like for areas of Birmingham, and the wider Black Country area throughout the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

We’ve had an absolutely record breaking day at the museum today at our drop-in leathercraft sessions! Our fantastic vis...
18/02/2026

We’ve had an absolutely record breaking day at the museum today at our drop-in leathercraft sessions! Our fantastic visitors made a whopping 162 pencil cases which is just incredible 😱

We’re so sorry to anyone who didn’t get to make one - staff worked incredibly hard to make sure that as many children as we could possibly manage could do the activity but we know a few left disappointed and we’re really sorry about that. Rest assured that we’ll prepare even more for our sessions at Easter!

Here’s a few pictures that we managed to catch today but if anyone has any others, we’d love to see them in the comments 😊

We’ve had a brilliant day today at our junior Paint Like a Master sessions with the brilliant Rob Conway. The sold out w...
17/02/2026

We’ve had a brilliant day today at our junior Paint Like a Master sessions with the brilliant Rob Conway. The sold out workshops were a hive of activity and all our young artists produced brilliant works of art.
If anyone managed to capture any pictures of their artists at work, we’d love to see them ❤️

We’re all ready for our family drop-in Have-a-Go Leathercraft sessions tomorrow (Wednesday 18th February)! You’ll be ab...
17/02/2026

We’re all ready for our family drop-in Have-a-Go Leathercraft sessions tomorrow (Wednesday 18th February)! You’ll be able to make and decorate your own leather pencil case. Drop in anytime between 10.30-12.30 or 1.30-3.30 - it costs just £1.50 and there’s no need to book!
We’re looking forward to seeing you 😊

Address

Littleton Street West
Walsall
WS28EW

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm

Telephone

01922 652288

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