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.
This week’s round is a tough one. Not only does it require a knowledge of geology but a familiarity with the local area too. We will post the answers next week. If you get all of them or even most of them correct, we would like to hear from you; leave a comment below or […]
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This week’s round is a tough one. Not only does it require a knowledge of geology but a familiarity with the local area too. We will post the answers next week. If you get all of them or even most of them correct, we would like to hear from you; leave a comment below or […]
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This week’s activity is a timeline. It’s aimed at ages 9 years +. It is based on a journey through water lifting devices through the ages starting from the earliest know water pump ‘The Shaduf’ invented by the Egyptians in 3000 BC. You will need some scissors and some glue and a printable […]
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Hello, everyone, this is the Buxton Bear writing to you again with some more of my observations during lockdown. I hope you are all staying safe and keeping those paws clean. Let’s keep up our efforts – I am sure I can clap more loudly on Thursdays when my paws are clean. Before lockdown, some […]
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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
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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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Originally posted on Buxton Museum and Art Gallery:
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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Originally posted on Buxton Museum and Art Gallery:
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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