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What’s On at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery Events and exhibitions in 2019 Free entry, donations appreciated www.derbyshire.gov.uk/buxtonmuseum
A museum collection 360 million years in the making… This year we are excited to be hosting Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain, a British Museum and Salisbury Museum Partnership Exhibition. Alongside the exhibition we’ll have an exciting programme of events and other activities, thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, look out for more details nearer the time. This spring our BM125 project artists will be creating and performing new works inspired by our collections, at the museum and in the landscape. Look out for modern mermaids, singing minerals and more. There will be a range of activities that you can join in with, thanks to funding from Arts Council England. As we look forward to the re-opening of the Crescent as a spa hotel and visitor experience, our summer exhibition will focus on this iconic Buxton building with art works and artefacts from our collection. Our eighteenth-century watercolours and sketches are now available online thanks to funding from the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art. Browse images from our collection and other organisations at www.depictingderbyshire.uk. We’d like to thank all of our funders, partners, volunteers and visitors for their continued support. We’re continuing to add to our app at www.wondersofthepeak.org.uk. Here you can explore the collection wherever you are and visit our online shop. Cover image: Buxton Crescent, William Cowen, watercolour, 1850
Events
All our activities and events are free and drop-in unless
otherwise stated. For details of events organised since
publication, visit our website or follow us on social media.
School holiday family fun
Join us on Thursday mornings during the school holidays for free craft
activities inspired by the museum collections. Drop in between 10am – 12 noon
and allow up to 30 minutes to take part.
Baby group
Come along on the third Thursday of every month to our baby and toddler
group. Meet other parents in a supportive environment and get advice from a
local breastmates volunteer. Drop in between 10.30am – 12 noon.
Meet the experts
Tuesday 9 to Friday 12 July and Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 July,
at 1pm.
Drop in for free lunchtime talks by museum and heritage
specialists from Derbyshire and beyond during Buxton Festival.
You can pick up a programme at the museum, the Fringe box office
or from our website.
Friends of Buxton Museum
and Art Gallery programme
Friday 22 February, Friday 29 March,
Friday 26 April and Friday 31 May at 7pm
Friends free, guests £3
Our Friends group host a programme of monthly
Friday evening talks by guest speakers. More
information can be found on the Friends pages of
our website.
© Mark Langley
Exhibitions
The Wonders of Wildlife
Tesni Ward
To Saturday 5 January 2019
Working intimately with some of the most elusive and
misunderstood wildlife gives Tesni a unique insight into
their world. The character and personality of each animal
shines through in her photographs, many of which are
taken in the Peak District.
© Tesni Ward
Artwork 2018
Buxton Community School and St Thomas More Catholic School
To Saturday 26 January 2019
Staff and students from two Buxton secondary schools present the
very best work from their GCSE and A-Level art examination courses
in this popular annual show.
© Nina Jurewicz
Circle
Sue Lewis-Blake and Ursula Blancke-Dau
Saturday 12 January to Saturday 23 March 2019
Preview: Saturday 12 January, 2–4pm
Meet the Artists: Saturday 9 February, 10am–1pm and
Saturday 9 March, 10am–1pm
“Circle” is an exhibition of paintings, drawings and videos
– outcomes of a thematic artistic conversation between
Derbyshire artist Sue Lewis-Blake and Ursula Blancke-
Dau from Luneburg, Germany. Circular outlines define
space and circular spaces gain significance, particularly
when seen in the context of the stone circles in Derbyshire
and North East Germany that have provided source
material for many of the works displayed. Engaging with
these circles for centuries links us both historically and
internationally.
© Sue Lewis-Blake
Painting Landscape and Still Life –
It’s all about Colour and Light
Harry McArdle
Saturday 2 February to Saturday 30 March 2019
Preview: Saturday 2 February, 2–4pm
Meet the Artist: Saturday 2 March, 2–4pm
This exhibition is a small retrospective of Harry
McArdle’s work covering a period of time since he
first won the Derbyshire Open Art Competition in
1993. Some of this work he owns and some have
been borrowed from friends in an attempt to show
a variety of media and techniques. Most of the work,
© Harry McArdle
though, is contemporary.
The Legacy of Radio Buxton –
20 Years On!
Steve and Paul Jenner
Saturday 30 March to Sunday 2 June 2019
Preview: Saturday 30 March, 2–4pm
Meet the Artists: Tuesday 9 April, 2–4pm and
Tuesday 21 May, 2–4pm
On May 31st 1999, media in the High Peak changed
forever. Radio Buxton took to the airwaves for the
first time and five years later High Peak Radio was
launched.
20 years on, the two brothers who founded both
stations curate an exhibition featuring reconstructions © Steve Jenner
of the original Radio Buxton studio. They’ll also be a
‘pirate’ studio including items of memorabilia, equipment and original recordings.
Hoards: the hidden history of
ancient Britain
British Museum and Salisbury Museum
Partnership Exhibition
Saturday 13 April to Sunday 16 June 2019
Preview: Saturday 13 April, 2–4pm
Discover buried treasure in an exhibition that
focuses on hoarding in ancient Britain. Find out
the various reasons why people put precious
objects into the ground and why they did not
retrieve them. The exhibition brings together finds © Salisbury Museum
from the British Museum and Salisbury Museum,
including spectacular Iron Age gold torcs and recent
discoveries from Wessex. We’ll also be displaying
hoards from Derbyshire and the Peak District
including additional material from Beeston Tor.
The Crescent: A
Celebration
Saturday 8 June to
Sunday 1 September 2019
The Crescent was the fashionable
centre of Georgian Buxton – a fine
hotel where visitors could take the
waters and dance the night away.
This exhibition celebrates the re-
development of the Crescent by
showcasing fascinating pictures
from its past.
© Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Derbyshire Open Art Exhibition
Saturday 6 July to Friday 13 September 2019
Preview: Friday 5 July, 6.30pm
Since 1982 the Derbyshire Open has attracted
amateur and professional artists of all ages
competing for a range of prizes and a place in
the museum collection. Now in its 38th year,
the resulting exhibition is the highlight of our
summer programme. Entry details are available
online.
© Ross Sallaway
Limescape – The Shrouded
Aesthetic
Steve Gresty
Saturday 7 September to
Saturday 16 November 2019
Meet the Artist: Saturday 28 September, 2pm–
4pm and Saturday 26 October 2pm–4pm
Captured over a 3 year period, this study considers
how limestone quarrying – a process which seeks
to meet our unrelenting desire for the comforts and
conveniences of consumer items – is concealed
both from public view and under the veil of the dust
it creates.
Carboniferous limestone contributes to the natural
beauty of areas within the Peak District National
Park. This exhibition however draws attention away
from the obvious picturesque countryside and
reveals the obscure and surreal ‘landscapes’ of the
hidden worlds that are the quarry environments.
© Steve Gresty
The Chrome Hill Project
Brian Holdcroft and Tony Wild
Saturday 21 September to Saturday 23 November 2019
Preview: Saturday 21 September, 2–4pm
Meet the Artists: Saturday 5 October, 2–4pm
Two Artists, two interpretations, one unique
place.
The scale-like spine of Chrome Hill and Park
House Hill, known as the Dragons back, singles
out this areas uniqueness. It sits amongst the
range of hills that form a natural amphitheatre
where light and sound move in and through the
escarpment.
This is where local artists Tony Wild and Brian
Holdcroft have situated themselves. This
exhibition is a culmination of a body of work
over a twelve month period. © Brian Holdcroft
Like It. Lump It. We Are All Connected
Beth Barlow
Saturday 23 November 2019 to Saturday 1 February 2020
Preview: Saturday 23 November, 2–4pm
‘Like It. Lump It. We Are All Connected’ is a
conceptual art and socially engaged art work
initiated and led by artist Beth Barlow. Since 2017
Beth has been working with various communities
to crochet the news. The resulting large scale
installation provides an overview of news stories
and how they are linked. Whilst we may be © Steve Jenner
presented with distinct stories, the project has
tested the idea that every thing or incident is
linked to everything else.
The work has been touring the North West
and growing at each step. Those who see the
work most commonly describe it as ‘thought
© Beth Barlow
provoking’
Artwork 2019
Buxton Community School and St Thomas More Catholic School
Saturday 30 November 2019 to Saturday 1 February 2020
Preview: Friday 29 November, 6.30pm
Staff and students from two Buxton secondary schools present the very best work from
their GCSE and A-Level art examination courses in this popular annual show.
Visitor
Information
• Admission • Shop
Entry to the museum is free, and We sell a range of products inspired
donations are welcome. by our collections including books,
We are open Tuesday–Saturday, fossils, minerals, postcards and
10am–5pm souvenirs. Many exhibiting artists
Sundays and Bank Holidays (from have work for sale.
Easter to September only), Visit our on-line shop at
12noon–4pm www.wondersofthepeak.org.uk
All purchases support our work.
• Enquiries
Museum staff may be able to identify • Keeping in touch
archaeological, geological, art and Join our mailing list or keep up to date
local history objects, although on our social media channels:
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• Facilities and access
The museum has a ramped entrance, • Contact us
automatic doors and accessible Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
toilets. There is a lift between the Terrace Road
floors. Baby changing facilities Buxton
are available. Pay and display Derbyshire SK17 6DA
car parking is available opposite 01629 533540
the museum (High Peak Borough
buxton.museum@derbyshire.gov.uk
Council – The Slopes). Buses stop on
www.derbyshire.gov.uk/buxtonmuseum
Terrace Road and the Market Place.
The train station is 10 minutes walk.
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The Friends hold monthly talks by
guest speakers and organise visits to The Crescent
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• Group and educational visits
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visits by organised groups, schools
and colleges. Contact us for more A515
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