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.
Whispers in the Grass July 2019 These hills, Buttress the sky, Green mounds echo the sky, Draw rain into this deep valley, Its thirst. Part of the BM125 project involved taking ideas about the Collections back into the landscapes a lot of those collections came from. In July, as one of our public events, […]
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Celebrating the years that something has been standing stuffed but still growling in a museum may seem a bit odd, but “The Buxton Bear” has been a feature of the Museum since its arrival 30 years ago. When the Museum redesigned its Wonders of the Peak galleries in 2017 there was much debate about “whether […]
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Volunteer archivist Ian Gregory shines his unique torch on another murky corner of Buxton Museum’s collections: In 1921, miners working at Broken Hill, Zambia (then called Northern Rhodesia) discovered the skull of an ancestor of humanity. Reports of this discovery came into the collections at Buxton Museum, via the geologists William Boyd Dawkins and J.W. […]
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Volunteer archivist Ian Gregory shines his unique torch on another murky corner of Buxton Museum’s collections: In 1921, miners working at Broken Hill, Zambia (then called Northern Rhodesia) discovered the skull of an ancestor of humanity. Reports of this discovery came into the collections at Buxton Museum, via the geologists William Boyd Dawkins and J.W. […]
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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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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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