Archive: This article describes Buxton Museum in 2025. Its former Terrace Road premises closed in 2023. The museum reopened in a temporary home next to Buxton Library in October 2026; see the museum for current exhibitions and visiting information.
In summer 2025, Buxton Museum and Art Gallery staff took exhibits and activities out into the community.
After the museum closed its Terrace Road site in 2023 due to structural concerns, the Derbyshire County Council-run team established an interim service at Buxton Library on Kents Bank Road, with events, exhibitions and a travelling pop-up museum.
At Buxton’s Eat in the Park festival in August 2025, visitors could handle fossils and a mammoth’s tooth. The museum also described a piece of fossilised plesiosaur skin, photographs with its bear and a prehistoric creature activity.
In 2025, the council said it was working with partners on a permanent home for the museum and library.
Councillor Dawn Abbott, then Cabinet Member for Health and Communities, said: “Our museum and art gallery team have been working incredibly hard to give people as many opportunities as possible to enjoy all the museum has to offer while plans for a new permanent home move forward. Summer events have been perfect for taking artefacts out into the community. The pop-up has been really well received, and our online content is as popular as ever.”
Children’s Activity: Design Your Own Mermaid Garden
During the 2025 summer holidays, the museum offered a mermaid-garden activity at Buxton Library on Tuesdays and Thursdays as part of the Summer Reading Challenge.
Heritage Open Days
The museum advertised a pop-up at Buxton Library for Tuesday 16 September 2025, from noon to 4pm, as part of the Heritage Open Days programme.
For current news and activities, visit the Buxton Museum and Art Gallery website.
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