Join us this summer for fun, games and challenges at both museums. Pick up your summer at the museum' pack and complete as many challenges as you can before the end of the holidays. Complete them all and you will receive a certificate and a prize.
The Irchester bowls were found in 1874 by the antiquarian the Rev. Baker. This remains an important and significant discovery of beautifully crafted bowls and strainers.
The Central Library Team will be making a special visit to the museum to read the story of The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Join us this summer for fun, games and challenges at both museums. Pick up your summer at the museum' pack and complete as many challenges as you can before the end of the holidays. Complete them all and you will receive a certificate and a prize.
Create and Film your own short animation film, Bring your favourite Lego/Star Wars Character, vehicle, structure or toy to include in your film.
Using water colours create your own colourful painting inspired by summer flowers
Explore the World of Textile art and create your own woven piece of art to take home.
Bricks 4 Kidz is an amazing workshop where children get to build motorised models from Lego technic! It's all Star Wars Themed and you'll get the chance to build some of your favourite characters and watch them come to life! During the session, there will be other other themed Lego Activities to help vring your imaginations alive!
May The Lego Be With You!
Make puppet or toy theatre to put on your own show
The training shoe has been around for over 100 years but in the last 50 years it has developed into a multibillion dollar global industry. In this exhibition we take a closer look at the design, technology, cultural influences and environmental impact of the trainer and showcase our own trainer collection, the largest owned by a public institution.
Friday 16 September – Friday 21 October 10.15 - 11.45am £4 per child per session and £24 for a series ticket (includes refreshments) Join us for hands-on fun sessions for the under-fives. Explore the museum with stories, music and art and craft activities, whilst making new friends and creating memories in an engaging and family-friendly environment. With a different theme and activities each week. These sessions are for pre-school children (2-5 years) and their parent and carers. Booking essential as places are limited.
Art history lecture series Friday 30 September – Friday 21 October 10.15am - 12.15pm £6 per lecture or £20 for the whole series ticket (includes tea/coffee and biscuits) Enactment, the public display of theatre and makebelieve, have long been part of human social and religious interaction, fostering communal participation and understanding as well as different forms of interpretations and ways of seeing. Join us as we explore four distinctly different phases of public display and storytelling through the art historian’s eye. Our journey starts with the enactments of medieval mystery plays, halts at the Italian Commedia dell’Arte and its importance particularly for the arts of Rococo Europe, reaching its apogee in exploring how William Hogarth and Richard Garrick immortalized the theatre. Our final session will address the use of art in the theatre of war. Please note that this lecture series runs in conjunction with the current exhibition at Abington Park Museum which until December 2022 charts the history of Northampton’s Masque theatre group. Booking essential.