Derbyshire County Council is committed to Buxton Museum and Art Gallery’s future. While announcing it will leave its Peak Buildings base, they’re actively looking for a new home in the town and developing a great interim service. Read the press release here👉//ow.ly/n3nv50RRphp

#SuperBowlSunday🏈 Will you be watching #TheKansasCityChiefs go head to head with the #PhiladelphiaEagles at 11:30pm tonight?🏆 We're getting into the spirit of things with this #photograph of an #American themed dinner hosted in The Palace Hotel's Devonshire Room.🌎 📸1986

#FindsFriday☀️ This beautiful pocket #sundial with Roman numerals was discovered at #PoolesCavern and dates back to the 17th or 18th century. The three small holes were possibly made for an attachment of leather or cloth backing.😍 #Metalwork #Buxton #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict

#Textile🧵 #OnlineArtExchange🎨 This vibrant "Sea Anemone"🧡 is giving "Finding Nemo"🐠 meets The Muppets🐸. 👩‍🎨Amy Bonsor (b.1986) 📸Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection 🥳"Spotlight On 4: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection of Chippenham Museum"

#WatercolourWednesday🎨 On #WaterfallWednesday we're admiring the #waterfall flowing underneath "The Old Bridge (North Wales)".💦 This signed 20th Century #landscape was painted by #artist Charles A. Bool, however the exact location of this scene is unknown to us.🖼️

#OTD🗓️ French sculptor, painter and filmmaker, Fernand Leger (1881-1955) was born #OnThisDay.🎂 This lithograph print is an abstract "still life" in the style of synthetic #cubism. Though #abstract, the forms are recognisable with a traditional subject matter. #20thCentury🎨

#MineralMonday🪨⛏️ 🖼️"Clocks and Rocks" - clockmaker and scientist John Whitehurst FRS (1713-1788). Cheshire born, he made significant contributions to #geology and was the oldest member of the Lunar Society alongside friends, Erasmus Darwin andJosiah Wedgewood. #LunarNewYear🌙

#PhotoFriday📸 We 💓 looking back on old photographs of #Buxton's #HighStreet. Captured by Mr Sturgess, this #photograph features the "Scotch Wool and Hosiery Store" as it looked in the 1930s. Wooly layers are a must today, it is rather cold and icy in parts! #LocalHistory📚🤓

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#OnlineArtExchange🎨 Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (1880–1952) creates a stark juxtaposition between the comfortable wealthy onlookers and the impoverished plight of the unemployed protesters. 🖼️The Arrival of the Jarrow Marchers in London, Viewed from an Interior 📸@MuseumoftheHome

Happy #LunarNewYear🌙 We 💓 sharing this atmospheric #OilOnCanvas painting by Algernon Cecil Newton (1880–1968).🌔 "Winter Moonrise, Yorkshire" has a beautiful calm and stillness to it. We're typing this description quietly, so as not to disturb the muffled snowy silence.❄️🤫

#TravelTuesday🥾 If you're venturing out in the #PeakDistrict🌄 after a weekend of weather warnings then this view is worth it.👨‍🎨Hector William Peveril built "Peveril Castle, Derbyshire" from 1066-1086, but the town of #Castleton below was laid out circa 100 years later.🪨⚒️

We're sticking with the Toll House 🪙 theme on #NationalBubbleWrapDay🫧 This turn of the century Toll Booth Board was snapped en-route to the #MuseumStore. Protective Bubble Wrap came in very handy whilst the object was temporarily in transit.🚛📦

A welcome sight after "A Winter Walk".😍 These cosy cottages were painted on location in #Monyash.🏘️ #Artist Carl Longmate entered his #OilOnCanvas piece into the 2019 Derbyshire Open Art Competition and won the Derbyshire Trophy.🏆 We won't be out in it this weekend though!🌧️

#SaturdaySketch✍ This #photograph was taken in 1969. It shows a #sketch of The Old Toll House on Fairfield Road, Buxton, but sadly we have no more information about it on record...🪙 Does anybody remember this #BuxtonBuilding?🤔 #ExploreYourArchive📸

#PhotoFriday Air Raid Precaution Wardens (ARP's) posing along Broad Walk, Buxton. Part of their #HomeFront duties were to advise the public, put out small fires and provide first aid. #DadsArmy fans will be reminded of "Hodges", the ARP played by Bill Pertwee.🎭 📸Date Unknown

#OnlineArtExchange🎨 @artukdotorg✨ A war artist in #WW2, Dunbar captured the home front, most famously of The Women's Land Army. 👩‍🎨Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960) 🖼️Women's Land Army Hostel 📸@Russell_Cotes 🥳C20th #WomenArtists for Sheila Fell: Cumberland on Canvas @TullieCarlisle

We're going back in time on #TravelTuesday ⏰ The #PeakDistrict may be landlocked now, but more than 300 million years ago much of #Derbyshire was sat beneath a shallow tropical sea teeming with marine life.🐚🌊 These colourful #corals in our collection are testament to this.🪸

Found these classic displays from the 1980s/90s whilst packing to move out of the building. Around 40 gold-coloured boards once told the history of Buxton #buxton #museum #art #artgallery #retro

On #NationalHotTeaDay we are keeping warm with a brew!🫖🍵 This personalised salt glazed teapot is attributed to Pearson's of Whittington Moor and it dates to around the 1890s. Read more on our blog👉