Visitors will see a £6.7m museum refurbishment funded by the controversial sale of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue as "money well spent", a council leader said. Northampton Museum and Art ...

A museum which has had a £6.7m refurbishment funded by the controversial sale of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue is due to open in July. Northampton Museum and Art Gallery has more than doubled ...

A fire at a museum damaged "nothing of value" because it had been emptied for a building refurbishment, managers say. The blaze broke out at Northampton Museum in Guildhall Road in the town, at ...

A British museum’s sale of a 4,400-year-old Egyptian statue last week has ignited a firestorm of criticism from cultural groups and Egypt’s government, writes The New York Times. The artifact, which ...

Northampton Borough Council’s sale of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue from its museum collection marks a further assault on public cultural provision. The statue is one of two known statues of ...

NORTHAMPTON — After remaining virtually unchanged since its original opening nearly 70 years ago, Forbes Library is looking to upgrade its museum dedicated to Northampton’s most historically ...

Though only five local cement plants remain, the industry’s legacy is still visible at the Atlas Cement Memorial Museum — a monument to Northampton’s Atlas Cement, once the world’s largest ...

The curators wanted to see the 3,000 artifacts at the museum, which is inside the Northampton municipal building, and get ideas for their own cement heritage museum in China, said Larry Oberly ...

Historian Carl Walter will give a talk about the Hampshire and Hampden Canal on Saturday, August 16, at the Historic Northampton Museum and Education Center. The 2pm lecture will explain why the ...

That would be the Beer Can Museum that sits inside my local, Ye Ol’ Watering Hole, right here in Northampton. I’ve mentioned Ye Ol’ Watering Hole plenty of times over the years. I wrote an ...

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery has reopened after more than four years. The Egyptian Sekhemka statue , was sold for £16m by the now-defunct Northampton Borough Council in 2014.