Northampton Museum & Art Gallery

Guildhall Road
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN1 1DP
England

Website

Website

www.northampton.gov.uk/museums

E-mail

museums@northampton.gov.uk

Telephone

01604 838111

Education

01604 838544

Fax

01604 838720

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Northampton Museum reflects the town's proud standing as both Britain's boot & shoe capital and the focus for history of the town through the ages.
Step back into a world of shoes with two new galleries funded with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Pilgrim Trust and Northampton Borough Council.
'Life & Sole' shoes the history of shoemaking using audio-visual diaplays, interactive exhibits and a re-creation of an old shoe factory.
'Followers of Fashion' Continues the story of footwear and celebrates shoe fashions through the centuries
The story of Northampton's history from the Stone Age to the 20th century is told with objects, sound and film.
Both decorative arts and fine arts are represented in outstanding collections, particularly the Oriental ceramics and the 15th to 18th century Italian paintings.
Regular events include temporary exhibitions,lunchtime talks, mornings for the over 60's and sessions for toddlers in term time and school holiday workshops.

Venue type

Museum

 Opening hours

Mon-Sat 1000-1700
Sun 1400-1700

Closed: Open Good Friday and Easter Monday

 Admission charges

Free Admission

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
  • General audio-guide available
  • Refreshments
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Braille information and/or interpretation
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Induction loops in lecture theatres
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
  • Wheelchairs available for loan
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Research facilities for academics
  • Study facilities
 Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

Guildhall Road
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN1 1DP
England

Website

Website

www.northampton.gov.uk/museums

E-mail

museums@northampton.gov.uk

Telephone

01604 838111

Education

01604 838544

Fax

01604 838720

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Shoes, shoe machinery and ephemera
Social History
Archaeology
Geology
Fine and Decorative Art

Collection details

Archaeology, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Social History

Key artists and exhibits

  • 1.Fine bronze SCABBARD of the 1st century BC, once the prized possession of a Celtic noble. Found at the Iron Age hill fort, Hunsbury.
  • 2. Unique Jewish tombstone, 13th century, from the former Jewish cemetary, off Barrack Road, Northampton
  • 3. THE BLAKE SEWER An important shoe machine to stich the soles of shoes. It signifys the machanisation of shoe manufacture.
  • 4. CHAIRS BY CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH c. 1916 designed for WJ Basset-Lowke's house at 78 Derngate, Northampton.
  • 5. Bronze model of Henry Moore's MADONNA AND CHILD commissioned in 1943 for St Matthew's Church, Northampton.
  • 6. Painted and gilded Italian CASSONE or marriage chest, Siennes school about 1470.
  • 7. STATUE of Sekemka, Inspetor of Scribes, Egyptian, 5th Dynasty (about 2400BC) brough to England by the 2nd Marquis of Northampton
  • 8. Unusual double-sided portrait, about 1580, of Sir Christopher Hatton of Holdenby, Northamptonshire. On loan to the National Maritime Museum for the Elizabth I exhibition May 2003.
  • 9. CHINESE PORCELAIN JAR. Chia-ching 1522-1566. Decorated with swimming carp
  • 10. ELEPHANT BOOT made in 1959 by Lotus Ltd, Northampton, for the British Alpine Hannibal Expedition.
  • 11. Super elevated ghillie by VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, famously tripping Naomi Campbell up on the catwalk.
  • 9.

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Guildhall Road
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN1 1DP
England

Website

Website

www.northampton.gov.uk/museums

E-mail

museums@northampton.gov.uk

Telephone

01604 838111

Education

01604 838544

Fax

01604 838720

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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