Football Museum of Wales and Wrexham Museum

The building was built as a militia barracks between 1857 and 1858 to the architectural designs of Thomas Penson. The Royal Denbighshire Militia relocated their armoury from Chester Castle, including their guns and ammunition, to the upstairs room of the building, now known as Court Room 1. The building also provided as the home for the militia's officers, whereas the soldiers resided in houses around the then town and trained for one month annually. The militia vacated the building in 1877, moving to the Hightown Barracks. In around 1879, the building was converted to a divisional police station of the Denbighshire Constabulary and a magistrates' court. The building was remodelled…

The building, known as "County Buildings", or "Former County Buildings", is located on the corner of Saint Mark's Road and Regent Street, in the city centre of Wrexham and in the community of Offa. The Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Sorrows is located to its west also on Regent Street. Former County Buildings is two-storeys, with a five-bay entrance front which is flanked either side by advanced gabled ranges. The building's architecture is of a Tudor gothic style. The building is composed of roughly coursed and squared stone with freestone dressings and steep slate roofs. The building has a chamfered buttressed tower. Internally, the building's layout was modified in 1980, with rooms…

In 1995, Wrexham Maelor Borough Council bought the building for it to be a museum. While the museum was separate, it was managed by the Wrexham Heritage & Archives Service, part of Wrexham County Borough Council's Housing & Economy Department. The archives were then regarded to be part of the museum, and were named in honour of local historian Alfred Neobard Palmer, as the A. N. Palmer Centre for Local Studies and Archives, and opened in 2002. In 2009, the museum was awarded a £950,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to open up more of the building to display the museum's collections. In 2010–2011, a glass extension was added to the front of the building, as well as a museum-wide…