Location Buxton, Derbyshire Phone +44 1629 533540 | Website Museum website | |
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Address Terrace Rd, Buxton SK17 6DA, United Kingdom Similar Old House Museum - Bakewell, Peak District Lead Mini, Poole's Cavern, Belper North Mill, Chestnut Centre Otter - Owl Profiles | ||
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Buxton Museum and Art Gallery focuses its collection on history, geology and archaeology.
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The museum is located at Terrace Road, Buxton, England. The museum opens every day except Mondays. Admission is free. The building was erected in 1880 and originally served as the Peak Hydropathic Hotel. During the First World War, the Red Cross used it to care for wounded Canadian soldiers. The Buxton Free Public Library & Museum moved into the building in 1928, leaving the Town Hall.
Permanent collections
The museum's permanent collections include:
Amongst the minerals are Blue John, carved limestone, local specimens, and cave deposits. In 2006, the Buxton Museum purchased a rare collection of decorative Ashford Black Marble wares, together with tools used to work the stone collection left by John Michael Tomlinson. Other collections relating to Derbyshire, also managed from Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, include a Derbyshire Police Collection.
The Museum's exhibition galleries include the Boyd Dawkins Study and the ‘Wonders of the Peak’ gallery. Dawkins bequeathed to the Museum a complete Victorian study containing his furniture, scientific instruments, books, Oriental ware and fossil collection. The ‘Wonders of the Peak’ gallery explores Peak District history from the Big Bang to the Victorian era. Items include a bear in its Ice Age cave; a hyaena above a Devensian bone hole; a Neolithic burial chamber and remains of a Roman soldier.