78 Derngate is one of the nineteen museums across the East Midlands benefiting from Museumaker. Launched in 2006, Museumaker is an ambitious partnership programme to develop new relationships, new work and new audiences for contemporary craft and museum collections.

It brings together three key agencies - Arts Council England, East Midlands, Museums, Libraries, and Archives Council (EMMLAC) and Renaissance, East Midlands – to work collaboratively for the first time.

The participating museums are: Alford Manor House Museum, Lincolnshire www.alfordmanor.com

Belgrave Hall, Leicester www.leicestermuseums.ac.uk/museums/museframe.html

Boston Guildhall, Lincolnshire www.boston.gov.uk

Buxton Art Gallery and Museum, Derbyshire www.derbyshire.gov.uk

Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Charnwood Museum, Loughborough, Leicestershire www.leics.gov.uk

Creswell Crags Museum and Education Centre, Nottinghamshire www.creswell-crags.org.uk

Derby Museum and Art Gallery www.derby.gov.uk

Flintham Village Museum, Nottinghamshire www.flinthammuseum.org.uk

Gainsborough Old Hall, Lincolnshire www.lincolnshire.gov.uk

Harborough Museum, Market Harborough, Leicestershire www.leics.gov.uk

Louth Naturalists,, Antiquarian & Literary Society, Lincolnshire. Telephone 01507 601211 Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery, Nottinghamshire www.mansfield.gov.uk

Melton Carnegie Museum, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire www.leics.gov.uk

Newark Museum, Millgate www.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk

New Walk Museum, Leicester www.leicestermuseums.ac.uk/museums/museframe.html

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery www.northampton.gov.uk Oakham Castle and Rutland County Museum, Oakham, Rutland www.rutnet.co.uk

78 Derngate, Northampton www.78derngate.org.uk