NORTHAMPTON
MUSEAUM AND ART GALLERY
The art museum of Northampton is one of the famous in UK,
and in the globe, as its renown of footwear. The museum include history of Northampton,
history of shoes, and the factory, gallery of ancient footwear, and fashion
shoes which is in modern life ,
exhibition of Fine art, and fashion exhibition of costume and vintage wear back to 60’s and 70’s.
The museum has two floor, on the first floor is about
history of Northampton, the life style ,and artitchure ,and how shoes shop are
existed from that period of time .
The another section of first floor is exhibition of fine
art, which has different artist who participate, the exhibition has painting of
emotion expression that’s mostly done by
oil paintings ,others images and statues. also there is exhibition of exotic
vintage accessories such as cutlers
The ground floor has three main galleries, are footwear
manufacture in Northampton ,it has machines , imagines of the factory ,The
first shoe designers ,the second gallery have lots of variety of shoes ,from
ancient to beauty symbol ,and old vintage to classic footwear such as the start
of the heels ,and boots.
Fashion Gallery is all the fashion footwear ,and fancy
ones that is full of glitter, and exaggerated shapes ,heels .Moreover tend to
be the futuristic contemporary shoes.
A zone of gallery that’s is for limited period of time
,and the one which is running now is about
vintage pieces of clothes
,footwear ,and accessory that’s refers to 20th century fashion of th
60’s,70’s ,and 80’s.
Eventually after having a tour of the museum ,there is area
to do some shopping such as, shoe books ,and souvenir.
Maadhad AL Busaidi(13428853)
