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52°45′52.71″N0°52′51.52″W / 52.7646417°N 0.8809778°W /52.7646417; -0.8809778TheMelton Carnegie Museum is amuseum inMelton Mowbray,Leicestershire, England, which documents the history of the market town. It is managed byLeicestershire County Council and supported byMelton Borough Council and isHeritage Lottery Funded.
The formerCarnegie Library, built in 1905, was refurbished and opened byLeicestershire County Council in 1977 as the Melton Carnegie Museum.
In 1983 the National Museum of Hunting Trust was established. WithMelton being a world-renowned centre offox hunting, the Melton building was intended to incorporate material on hunting. A planned refurbishment of the building, costing some £500,000, gave the opportunity to include a fox-hunting display, celebrated at the re-opening in the speech ofBaroness Mallalieu on 3 May 2002.
The museum, which has doubled in size, re-opened in late 2010, following a major building project which created a new gallery, study area and community space.
The museum traces the social and economic history of Melton and includes exhibitions on the town's world-renownedStilton cheese andpork pie industries and accounts of the arguments for and againstfox hunting.
The museum also has displays on the history ofsaddle,shoemaking andtinsmithing and the impact these trades had on the town, as well as how theRomans,Anglo Saxons,Normans,Tudors,Georgians andVictorians would have lived in the area.
The phrase "painting the town red" also has strong local connections.
The Museum is accredited by theMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).
