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GeneralBuxton Museum (in Derbyshire) under threat of closure - please help

28th Apr 2024 17:07 UTCRoy Starkey 🌟 Manager

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Buxton Museum and Art Gallery is currently closed due to structural problems with the building.


Concern is growing as to whether the Council will be able to find the necessary funds to get the building back into a state where the museum can reopen to the public.

Amongst other things the collections include:

  • Carboniferous limestone fossils from the Peak District collected between 1900 and 1950
  • Pleistocene (Ice Age) animal bones and teeth from caves and quarries throughout the Peak District
  • The archives and libraries of Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins and Dr JW Jackson, geologists associated with the county and with Manchester Museum
  • Randolph Douglas 'House of Wonders' collection from Castleton which includes a huge collection of locks and keys and some very unusual Houdini material
  • Mineral collections including Blue John, local specimens, and cave deposits
  • unique collection of decorative Ashford Black Marble objects and the tools used to work it
 
The Museum was featured in my book on the Minerals of the English Midlands (see https://britishmineralogy.com/wordpress/?page_id=878 )

Please register your support for the Museum and its important collections and public displays by signing the petition at chng.it/wTrzLymd and remember to click on the link that you will receive to confirm your email address, otherwise your vote will not count.

Thanks for your support

Best wishes

Roy
 
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