Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
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About Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Opening Times: *TEMPORARILY CLOSED*
Visit Buxton Museum to learn about the fascinating geology, archeology and history of the Peak District in their extensive collection of over 40,000 objects from the area.
Regular programme of workshops and activities for families and children operate throughout the year and at key times such as Easter, summer holidays and Christmas. This may currently changing due the closure of Peak Buildings – the museum’s former home.
Buxton Museum temporary closure
Peak Buildings, former home of Buxton Museum and Art Gallery for 96 years, owned by Derbyshire County Council was sold at auction on 30th January 2025 with SDL Auctioneers and sold for £435,000.The property has was listed on rightmove in November 2024 and sale boards went up outside.
The museum closed to the public in June 2023 as a precautionary measure as parts of the building were potentially identified as being unsafe. Although initially it was a temporary closure, a decision to permanently relocate the museum from Peak Buildings was announced in May 2024.
Since the announcement that the relocation was necessary, the council has been working to
identify suitable alternative premises to house the collections and re-open the museum and
art gallery to the public in a new location in the town.
Museum staff have been undertaking with the complex task of packing away the thousands of artefacts and artworks housed at the museum.
Derbyshire Council went on to say, “some items will go into safe storage until a new museum home is found and others will be displayed in alternative venues, including
Buxton Library, from where staff will be working temporarily.”
Online access to the museum collections allows users to access and interact with specific objects and collections remotely and via mobile devices – click here for more.
If you’re interested in finding out more about the museum, why not join Friends of Buxton Museum and Art Gallery? Independently run, they hold regular free monthly talks with notable speakers relating to science, art and history, followed by free refreshments. Members also receive invitations to previews of the museum’s temporary art exhibitions and opportunities to work with the museum and its collections.
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