Football Museum of Wales and Wrexham Museum

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The Football Museum of Wales and Wrexham Museum (Welsh: Amgueddfa Bêl-droed Cymru ac Amgueddfa Wrecsam) is a national football and local history museum under development in Wrexham, Wales. It is a redevelopment of Wrexham County Borough Museum, to include a new museum alongside it, the Football Museum of Wales. The combined museum is located within County Buildings, a Grade II listed building, that had housed the Wrexham Museum since 1996.

The building is located between Saint Mark's Road and Regent Street in the city centre, bounded by Wrexham Cathedral to the west. It was designed by Thomas Penson as a militia barracks and built between 1857 and 1858, later becoming a police station and Magistrates' court. The police vacated the building in 1976–1977, with it then becoming part of a local art college, until being bought by the council to become a museum for the newly established Wrexham County Borough in 1996.

The museum is a combination of two museums, or "halves", with one being for the previous local history museum of Wrexham County Borough, and a new football museum for Wales that can house collections dedicated to Welsh association football. Proposals for a national football...