Buxton Museum & Art Gallery
The articles below include news about the Wonders of the Peak gallery and mobile web app, as well as articles collected from other blogs run by Buxton Museum & Art Gallery.
Do you have a favourite object, photograph or artwork in the collections of Buxton Museum and Art Gallery? Would you like it on your T-shirt? Scarf? Apron? Framed on your wall? Well now you can and you can do it without stepping foot in the place. http://www.wondersofthepeak.co.uk is a brand new website that provides unique […]
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Volunteer archivist Ian Gregory makes another thought-provoking discovery: While much of the collection at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery is devoted to The Peak District, it has never been cut off from the wider world. The collection includes some photographs from the caves of Cheddar Gorge in Somerset. You may have watched a recent documentary […]
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Hill is the story of one Derbyshire hill told in photography, film, sculpture, poetry and song. The hill featured in the exhibition rises north from Wirksworth. It is home to families, wildlife, farming, quarries, mine shafts and wind turbines. Buxton Museum and Art Gallery has worked with award-winning photographer Kate Bellis who has spent the […]
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Hill is the story of one Derbyshire hill told in photography, film, sculpture, poetry and song. The hill featured in the exhibition rises north from Wirksworth. It is home to families, wildlife, farming, quarries, mine shafts and wind turbines. Buxton Museum and Art Gallery has worked with award-winning photographer Kate Bellis who has spent the […]
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Volunteer Ian Gregory gives us a personal account of this week’s official reopening of Buxton Museum and Art Gallery: Manager Ros Westwood reveals The Wonders of the Peak to The Duke of Devonshire From time to time, long-lasting establishments have to reassess themselves and make changes. Some…
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In the second of two posts, Lorna Ormiston, a history undergraduate from Sheffield University, looks at Derbyshire’s role in a tumultuous era of British history. The English Civil War (or rather civil wars) began in 1642 with the king raising his standard in Nottingham after failing to…
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Gordon Maclellan, aka The Creeping Toad is one of the Peak District’s most established storytellers and event organisers and works often with Buxton Museum. He divulges what he’s been up to in his own excellent blog.
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This week’s blog has been written by Lorna Ormiston, a history undergraduate from Sheffield University who specialises in the 17th and 18th century. During my four week placement at Buxton Museum, I had the opportunity to handle both Thomas Hobbes’ and Charles Cotton’s poems on the “wonders”…
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