The former Derbyshire School Library Service has many wonderful objects that formed part of a collection comprising museum quality items. These opened up the world to children in Derbyshire for many decades from the founding of the service in the 1930’s. Children who were living in isolated villages, where the nearest town was considered a […]
Read more (please note that this will open the website: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery)
Originally posted on Derbyshire Record Office:
Belper North Mill Trust are hosting a free talk on Zoom on Thursday 22 October at 7.00pm in which Dr Susanne Seymore will be discussing the contribution of enslaved African lives to the Strutts’ cotton spinning industry at Belper. Susanne is Associate Professor in the School of Geography and…
Read more (please note that this will open the website: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery)
Derbyshire Museums Manager Ros Westwood stumbles upon a find to accompany the re-opening of The Crescent in Buxton. During lockdown I had the opportunity to have a search through the stores and found these two copper plates – and after I had managed to decipher the mirror writing on them, was excited to share the […]
Read more (please note that this will open the website: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery)
Derbyshire Museums Manager Ros Westwood stumbles upon a find to accompany the re-opening of The Crescent in Buxton. During lockdown I had the opportunity to have a search through the stores and found these two copper plates – and after I had managed to decipher the mirror writing on them, was excited to share the […]
Read more (please note that this will open the website: Buxton Museum and 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 […]
Read more (please note that this will open the website: Enlightenment! A blog by Buxton Museum and Art Gallery)
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
