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Northampton Museum

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4-6 Guildhall Road, NN1 1DP

Northampton Museum is free to enter, and open except for Mondays. It is large, with a lot to see - History on the top floor, Art on the first floor, Shoe Gallery in basement, and temporary exhibitions. My interests were lace (in History section) and shoes (History, plus the Shoe Gallery).

Lace

Sorry for the large number of photos of lace! The light wasn't good (textiles don't like light) so I took duplicates.

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Shoes

I bought one of the off-cut purses.

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Art

The first floor is the art gallery. They were putting on a temporary event for the holidays, so much of the permanent exhibition wasn't there (such as the Piper painting of St Matthews), but there was a little. I liked the sheep. The print is Deadalus killing Talos by throwing him off the Acropolis, which confused me. I thought that Talos was the brnze man who protected Crete. Well, so he is, but this is a different Talos, otherwise known as Perdix. He was the nephew of Deadalus and also an inventor. When he became better than Daedalus, Daedalus became jealous and killed him. But Athene turned him into a partridge.

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1980s

The temporary exhibition was 1`980s, which was fun, but temporary, of course.

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