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Dive deep into the 5323 objects digitised by our staff and volunteers. Or put on your hat, find your trowel and dig for treasures!

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Contributors from across the region bring you 457 Wonders: intriguing facts and stories, each linked to a special location in the landscape, and organised into 12 themes by Buxton Museum.

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Depicting Derbyshire brings together 18th-century art of the Peak District and Derbyshire. The project is run by Buxton Museum & Art Gallery and has been funded by the Paul Mellon Centre.

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Hear from the team behind Buxton Museum & Art Gallery: a museum collection 360 million years in the making ...

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A Peak District Mermaid

The Peak District boasts three mermaids. Blake Mere houses one of them.

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There are 456 more Wonders to explore. Browse the complete collection.

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All of the Wonders – whether objects, facts & stories, artworks or news – are curated by Buxton Museum & Art Gallery. The Museum is a great place to start your trip to the Peak District.

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Toadstones and Re-Animated Toads

Originally posted on Geological Curators' Group Blog:
Introduction Whilst inspecting an example of a John Mawe mineral collection (from the 1820s) at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery it was observed that it contained an uncatalogued item, namely a petrified frog. (Fig.1) Figure 1: John Mawe rock and mineral collection showing petrified frog. © John Cooke…

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