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.
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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If you had to leave your home at a moment’s notice and could only take one possession with you, what would you choose? For this blog, Richard and Amanda Johnson from Kidology Arts describe their current ‘work in progress’. Buxton Museum and Art Gallery’s collection is made up of objects that have been chosen. Someone, […]
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My name is Rob and I’m a writer. I’m crafting the tale of a mermaid and am waist-deep in research. The story is loosely-based on two mermaids, both of whom live in the Peak District. The first one is real. A tiny, twisted, terrible ‘doll’ cobbled together from fish skin and hair. It’s on display […]
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Did anyone see ‘Dynasties’ (the Attenborough programme) on lions last night? Mon Dieu I was gripped! I wanted to watch it because I’m obsessing about big cat movement at the moment – but was absolutely blown away by the photography and gripped by the tense narrative of survival. It’s extraordinary to think that this exact […]
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Did anyone see ‘Dynasties’ (the Attenborough programme) on lions last night? Mon Dieu I was gripped! I wanted to watch it because I’m obsessing about big cat movement at the moment – but was absolutely blown away by the photography and gripped by the tense narrative of survival. It’s extraordinary to think that this exact […]
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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
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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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