West Park Museum, which was located in West Park, was donated to the town by Marianne Brocklehurst and her brother Peter Pownall Brocklehurst.
Ms Brocklehurst was a 19th Century explorer, and the daughter of Macclesfield’s first MP, and acquired a number of Egyptian artefacts on visits to the country with her life-partner Mary Booth.
Cheshire East Council owns the museum and collection, but it does not operate a museum service so care and access is managed by a trust.
In 2019, the council submitted an expression of interest to the Heritage Lottery Fund to restore the museum, but this was unsuccessful.
Conservators in 2022 recommended the immediate removal of all remaining items, which were all either sent to the Silk Museum, for conservation work or into storage.
Under the proposals, ten paintings are set to be moved to Macclesfield Town Hall with the remainder of the collection to be displayed at the Silk Museum.
The majority of the collections are already at the Silk Museum and have been “well received by visitors”, a report to councillors said, external.
