Wonders of the Peak

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Welcome to the Peak District and Derbyshire's online collection. How will you explore it?
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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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Monsal Trail - Cressbrook

In front of you is the impressive Cressbrook Mill. The print above shows the mill in its heydey during the 1850s, making high-quality cotton for the lace-making industry. 

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

Buxton Museum & Art Gallery

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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A Centenary Remembered or David Bowie Takes the Biscuit (but Frederick Banting drank Buxton Water)

A hundred years ago, two Canadian researchers made a scientific breakthrough in treating diabetes. Isobel reflects on the anniversary and its connection with Buxton: While looking round Falmouth’s National Maritime Museum last year, I saw a fascinating exhibition by Viktor Wynd, from the Museum of Unnatural History which formed part of their Monsters of the […]

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