EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBITIONS Hello

The force will be with you at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery

Abington Park Museum is currently hosting the exhibition It’s A Bug’s Life which takes a peek into the lives of the minibeasts and creepy crawlies that inhabit our gardens, fields and green spaces and explores just why they are so important.

This is your opportunity to find out how beetles see and hear, how they defend themselves and how to make a beetle home in your garden.

You’ll also go home understanding the differences between a butterfly and a moth, and what mud-puddling is.

A range of children’s summer workshops are also planned. The Wonderful Wednesdays events include Viking purse making (July 27), a chance to explore the microscopic world with Look Closer (August 3), understanding how

The Tiger Who Came to Tea features in the Judith Kerr exhibition at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery your garden grows (August 10), Fossil Fun (August 17) and Animal Magic (August 24).

Meanwhile, Fantastic Fridays will include a Tiger Activity Workshop (July 29), Flower Painting (August 12) and the chance to Get Tactile with Textiles (August 19).

At Northampton Museum & Art Gallery, a magnificent collection of vintage Star Wars toys and original posters spanning 1977 to 1984 are on display.

This must-see show for all Star Wars devotees features toys that have never been exhibited previously, and it is the biggest version of the exhibition ever opened to the public. Entry is free, and the show continues until September 4.

While we’re on the subject of Star Wars, on August 16 the Museum is holding a Bricks 4 Kidz Lego Builders Workshop, where youngsters aged five to 12 years old will get to build motorised models from Lego Technic.

It’s a chance to bring some of their favourite characters to life, and other themed Lego activities will run simultaneously. May the creativity be with them!

Another exhibition starting at the Museum on July 9 (and also continuing until September 4) shines a light on the life and work of one of this country’s best loved author-illustrators, Judith Kerr.

Judith, who passed away in 2019, was responsible for the much-loved classic The Tiger Who Came to Tea. This show celebrates the 50th anniversary of that book, and will be an opportunity to view quality facsimiles of Judith’s illustrations from the Seven Stories archive.

It will be roar-some. How could it be anything else with a tiger at the heart of the matter?

> For full details of all events and workshops running throughout the summer visit www.northamptonmuseums.com