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.
As well as providing a focal point for the heritage of The Peak District, Buxton Museum and Art Gallery is also a meeting place for the local community. One of our most frequent visitors is a Buxton resident called Cynthia who makes use of the public computers at the museum. More often than not, Cynthia […]
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This week, he have enjoyed the assistance of a school pupil named Eleanor who decided on Buxton Museum and Art Gallery for her work experience. The staff found Eleanor to be energetic and enthusiastic and her knowledge of the Marvel Comics Universe unparalleled. We encouraged her to write about something she found interesting and like […]
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Volunteer archivist Ian Gregory discovers another curious image from the depths of Buxton Museum’s collection: It’s been said that any portrait is a two-way dialogue between artist and sitter. We have, at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, photographs of people as well as landscapes and fossils. One of these dates from the late 19th or […]
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Volunteer archivist Ian Gregory discovers another curious image from the depths of Buxton Museum’s collection: It’s been said that any portrait is a two-way dialogue between artist and sitter. We have, at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, photographs of people as well as landscapes and fossils. One of these dates from the late 19th or […]
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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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