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.
For the BM125 celebrations, my role is to create a series of events that will invite people to engage with the museum collection in creative ways. Events will happen in the museum itself and also out in the local landscapes that gave us so many of the wonderful specimens that we see in the museum […]
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I take a long time to write anything coherent so thought it might be best to use this blog as a digital scrapbook, showing my thinking through notes and drawings as the project progresses. I was at first interested in digitally 3d scanning the rocks, fossils and minerals in Buxton’s collection, then writing software that […]
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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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I spent a hugely rewarding and thought provoking day in the museum archive last week with Brian Goodwin, a mine of information regarding Sir William Boyd Dawkins and Dr. J. Wilfrid Jackson — more on which later… But first, I wanted to post these photos of a collection of models of the early Pleistocene mega-fauna […]
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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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