If you’ve visited BMAG, you may have seen the famous Buxton bear. If you’re really lucky, you may have also spotted more morbid curiosities such as the mermaid and the cat mummy, which are exhibited occasionally. Isobel reveals another character that’s very easy to miss amongst the displays: My fossil collection at home – small […]
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Welcome to Travelling Stories, our online exhibition of artist commissions responding to some particular museum collections. Over a series of blogs, we are sharing newly made work with you – you might not like every piece. That’s OK – you looked and thought about. But you might like the next one… In 2018, the Derbyshire […]
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Welcome to Travelling Stories, our online exhibition of artist commissions responding to some particular museum collections. Over a series of blogs, we are sharing newly made work with you – you might not like every piece. That’s OK – you looked and thought about. But you might like the next one… In 2018, the Derbyshire […]
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Welcome to Travelling Stories, our online exhibition of artist commissions responding to some particular museum collections. Over a series of blogs, we are sharing newly made work with you – you might not like every piece. That’s OK – you looked and thought about. But you might like the next one… In 2018, the Derbyshire […]
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We now have our eighteenth-century watercolours and sketches available via an online catalogue – http://www.depictingderbyshire.uk The website, which has been funded by a grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, showcases art works of Derbyshire made between 1700-1820. These works are searchable via a map function, through keywords or through a […]
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Creeping Toad begins a series of events in celebration of the museum's 125th birthday.One field of grass,
rustling and bustling with life
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery is 125 this year and to mark that anniversary, the BM125 project will bring together experienced with new and emerging artists with 12 months of artistic initiatives (we were hoping for a cake but the weight of the candles and their collective fieriness might prove inhibiting: a cake barbecued by its own candles?) Over the next few weeks, these new artists will be introduced and the shapes of their work will unfoldRead his full blog here: https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2018/07/rustling-and-bustling-with-life.html
