Christmas is fast approaching, and the bear will soon have his hat on. It’s been great to welcome visitors back to Buxton Museum and Art Gallery over the last few months and cautiously tiptoe back to normality after the lockdown. Those of you who have been in to see us have been very generous with […]

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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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Buxton Museum and Art Gallery undoubtedly has the best public collection of Ashford Black Marble in the UK, if not the world. Technically the stone is not a marble, but a dark coloured limestone that is rich in bitumen (hence the colour) and is found close to the Derbyshire village of Ashford-in-the-Water. The stone is […]

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Buxton Museum and Art Gallery undoubtedly has the best public collection of Ashford Black Marble in the UK, if not the world. Technically the stone is not a marble, but a dark coloured limestone that is rich in bitumen (hence the colour) and is found close to the Derbyshire village of Ashford-in-the-Water. The stone is […]

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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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One field of grass, 

rustling and bustling with life

Creeping Toad begins a series of events in celebration of the museum's 125th birthday.

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 unfold

Read his full blog here: https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2018/07/rustling-and-bustling-with-life.html