Arts and Heritage service

The Arts and Heritage service is responsible for Arts, Museums and Shropshire Archives.

This area brings together all the current art, museum and archives services that have previously been managed by the County Council and the 5 district/borough councils.

The Arts Service
The Arts Service includes arts and festivals development, Theatre Severn, the Old Market Hall Film and Digital Media Centre and Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre.

For more information on the Arts and Festivals Development Service please email arts.service@shropshire.gov.uk or visit the arts development pages.

For up-to-date programme information for Theatre Severn and the Old Market Hall please telephone the Box Office on 01743 281281 or visit the websites by following the links on this page below.

The Museum Service
The Museum Service manages Acton Scott Historic Working Farm, Ludlow Museum, Ludlow Museum Resource Centre, Much Wenlock Museum, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shrewsbury Castle and Coleham Pumping Station as well as collecting and preserving the historic collections throughout Shropshire. This service also manages the Music Hall Redevelopment Project which will create a new County Museum and Visitor Centre for Shropshire.

Shropshire Archives
Shropshire Archives manages a wealth of information (old documents and local study materials) for the historic county of Shropshire which is now Shropshire and the Borough of Telford and Wrekin. In addition the Archaeological Service and Records Management & Research are also managed by this section.

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