News Testimonials "I'm an avid reader of the AboutMyArea NN12 newsletter you send me every week. It's better than a newspaper!" - Heather Smith Author: Sara Kennedy Lord Lieutenant with Molly The HM Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire, James Saunders Watson Esq, officially re-opened Northampton Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday, 10 July 2021 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the occasion. The museum in Guildhall Road opened its doors to the public at 10am, following an extensive £6.7 million expansion and redevelopment programme, which began in 2017 and has seen the building double in size, with the addition of a nine-metre-high glazed atrium extension linking the original building to brand new galleries and activity space.