Wellingborough Museum won the Sustainable Community Award in the Improving Your Patch competition.
The Improve Your Patch awards, launched in July by Northamptonshire Environmental Forum, recognise and honour communities which make an effort to im
prove the quality of life in their area.
The museum is now in the running for the overall Wellingborough Award, with a prize of £100, and the Northamptonshire Award of £300. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Friday.
Wellingborough Museum archaeologist Ian Nunney said: "We are proud to win an award because we are staffed entirely by volunteers.
"It is marvellous to have our hard work rewarded.
"We are a people's museum and all our projects involve the local community in some way.
"For example, we recently staged an exhibition entitled One Hundred Years of Wellingborough Carnival and we invited everyone to bring in photographs, costumes and souvenirs. The response was incredible.
"We were able to reunite old friends who saw each other in photographs from the 1930s."
Another of the museum's achievements was a successful Holocaust Memorial exhibition in February when concentration camp survivor Rudy Oppenheimer gave two lectures.
Kenneth Murdin, who is retired and lives in Wellingborough, said: "The museum is excellent. The staff work hard to preserve our history."
Chairman of Northamptonshire Environmental Forum Hugh Fenton said: "Wellingborough Museum has done a lot to improve the quality of life for people living in the town. I congratulate them on their award."
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