The Northampton museum and art gallery visit

Footwear fanatics pay attention, The Northampton museum and art gallery houses a world famous shoe collection, its is recognized nationally as a treasured and important collection playing homage to Northampton town 'cobbler town' being known for its shoe making history. The museum exhibits and celebrates that art of shoe making using fascinating interactive visual and interactive displays.

The museum showcases collections from a wide variety of cultures and era's, as well as iconic shoes and styles relating to films or performing. 
 The collections and gallery have the ability to engage and inspire every genre of audience that visits.From Queen Victoria's satin ribbon wedding shoes when she married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the Chapel Royal St. James. Also featured are the boots worn by Elton John himself in the 1975 Rock opera film 'Tommy' as well as classic shoes such as JuJu jellies who still produce the shoes in Northampton and have done for over 25 years now, which have recently become extremely popular in the media and on the high street in the summer months.

On the 19th of October I had the valuable opportunity to take a look around the museum and gallery and explore the gallery and archive, containing and excellent resource of factual information on shoe making and shoe traditions and generations. I enjoyed finding out about the different and unique shoes and exploring deeper into the stories behind them.

When looking round the museum's shoe collection several areas caught my eye, I particularly liked the 'Red alert' red shoes collection showcasing several different attractive red shoes, the stand really popped caught my eye, it presented several different iconic red shoe designs and displays the contrasts between different shoes and I noticed how the red can be used to create a certain mood depending on the style, material and purpose.

Education and entertaining, Northampton museum and art gallery preserves the fading art of shoe making inside it, It is undeniably worth a visit if you hold an interest in shoes, and its down to you to decide.....which shoe would you like to wear?