Buxton Museum & Art Gallery

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Buxton Museum & Art Gallery
Established
Location Buxton, Derbyshire
Website Museum website

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery focuses its collection on history, geology and archaeology.

The museum is located at Terrace Road, Buxton, England. The museum opens every day but Mondays. Admission is free.

[edit] Permanent collections

The museum's permanent collections include:

  • Carboniferous limestone fossil record of the Peak District collected between 1900 and 1950;
  • Pliocene mammal evidence from caves throughout the Peak District;
  • The archives of Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins and Dr John Wilfred (J.W.) Jackson, geologists associated with the county and with Manchester Museum;
  • Randolph Douglas 'House of Wonders' collection from Castleton which includes a large collection of locks and keys and some unusual Houdini material;
  • A fine art collection dominated by 19th and 20th century works in watercolours, oils and prints, including works by Sir Frank Brangwyn, Marc Chagall and Edgar Chahine.

Amongst the minerals are blue john, local specimens, and cave deposits. The collection of decorative Ashford Black Marble wares and the tools to work it is rare.

Other collections relating to Derbyshire, also managed from Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, include a Derbyshire Police Collection.

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