Northampton Museum and Art Gallery

                                                  

                               Northampton Museum and Art Gallery

Are you the person that really love shoes? Are you the person that would like to know more about different type of shoes past ? Northampton Museum and Art Galerry is the right place. As many people know Northampton has a great history for shoe manufacturing. People from all over the world visit this museum in order to see how many different shape,high, lenght  shoes can be.Thats why it is not surprising why there are so many good reviews about this place.

When you first walk inside you enter into a bright , sky color foyer with delicate white stairs and brown leather  armchairs . Walls are  decorated with great people such as Marilyn Monroe ,Mahatma Gandhi , William Rossi quotes.From there you can choose to go three ways...

Upstairs you can find a wonderful exibition from stone age to age when shoe manufacturing in Northampton was very popular.How rooms, shoe shops, clothing,tools looked like. On your way out you can try local poeple clothing from old times and take a picture with them as well.Going back down stairs , there is fascinating room with exibition of clothing, scooters from around 1960`s.At the same place there is gift shop where you can treat your self with tea or coffe and buy trifle to a friend or family.When you pass to another room , you feel like you traveled through time. 1960`s – 1990`s music makes you really feel into that times.Shoes from the film “The Red Shoes”,local person- Jeffrey West shoes, fetish collection and more.

The last but not least area is with shoes from  differnt parts ,centurys of the world. Memorable men`s and women`s shoe fetish collection. How in one`s own way there are unique. Great attraction for younger generation , they have a chance to try shoes from various places of the world.Also fascinating collection of removable heels with swarovski`s for posh ladys.Furthermore , people who have no clue how shoe making works , there is a seperate room with display of people working in fabrics photos and equipment which were used to make marvelous shoes in city of Nortampton.

To all the people that are intrested in fashion, shoes, history or is just curious to know more about shoe manufacturing history have a chance to come to Northampton Museum and Art Gallery to see them selves how amazing it is.