At the end of January 2022, the Esmee Fairbairn funded project at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, to rehome material from the Derbyshire School Library Service, reaches its conclusion. The project started in March 2019 and has seen the successful, and ethical, rehoming of thousands of museum quality paintings and artefacts. A total of 107 […]

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Over the past few months, we have enjoyed welcoming children back to Buxton Museum and Art Gallery for class visits and lots of fun activities. Now we are running an exciting competition giving children and Buxtonians of all ages the chance to get creative and have their work displayed in Buxton Museum and Art Gallery. […]

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Over the past few months, we have enjoyed welcoming children back to Buxton Museum and Art Gallery for class visits and lots of fun activities. Now we are running an exciting competition giving children and Buxtonians of all ages the chance to get creative and have their work displayed in Buxton Museum and Art Gallery. […]

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In the Wonders of the Peak Gallery at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, there are three medieval keys on display which date from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century. The keys found at Wormhill, Derbyshire, can be associated with the significant development of locks and keys that occurred during the later Middle Ages. Using […]

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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