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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.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Northampton’s Calvin Coolidge library and museum, which bears the name of the 30th U.S. president has launched the first public fundraising campaign in its history.
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.
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 ...
For more than a century, thousands of people across the Lehigh Valley lived, ate and breathed cement — literally.“The air was saturated with cement dust,” said lifelong Northampton resident ...
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 ...
The council sold its Sekhemka statue for nearly £16m, enabling it to expand its museum and gallery A council has begun negotiations to purchase buildings enabling it to expand a museum, despite ...
Northampton Museum has received over £200,000 in ACE grants over the last two years. An example of the alienation came even before the auction. Alan Moore, the comic book writer, ...
The loss of government contracts and grants and dwindling attendance at special events has left nonprofit museums scrambling. State grants the nonprofits have relied on since 1985 were cut in the ...
The Northampton Museum and Art Gallery and the Abington Park Museum are both being excluded from the UK’s Accreditation Scheme for museums by the Arts Council, reports the BBC.
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.
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 ...