Archive: This article describes Buxton Museum in 2021. 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.
After months of pandemic closure, Buxton Museum was due to reopen on 18 May 2021, according to Derbyshire County Council’s contemporary bulletin.
The 2021 announcement described two exhibitions, additions to the gift shop and free admission.
For current visitor information, see Buxton Museum and Art Gallery.
During lockdown, staff shared research and activities through the museum blog.
Councillor Barry Lewis, Derbyshire County Council Leader and Cabinet Member for Strategic Leadership, Culture and Tourism said: “We are delighted to be opening Buxton Museum and Art Gallery after so long. The staff are very much looking forward to having visitors back and can’t wait to show people the changing programme of exhibitions they have worked hard putting together for them.”
Exhibitions in 2021
The original announcement also described a planned display of Victorian objects to mark the Pavilion Gardens’ 150th anniversary.
The 2021 announcement said that the Derbyshire Open Art exhibition had been postponed. It advertised Across Time – A Retrospective by Brian Nolan (1931–2019), a landscape artist based in Hayfield and the 2004 winner of the Derbyshire Open Art Exhibition trophy.
Full Circle – Back to Where We Began brought together work by Susan Dodd and Penny Kealey. The council’s 2021 bulletin described it as a celebration of 50 years since the friends left Chesterfield Art College.
The museum’s permanent displays at the time explored the geology and archaeology of the Peak District. The national park marked its 70th anniversary in 2021.
The former museum shop also featured gifts inspired by the Wonders of the Peak exhibition.
Visiting arrangements in 2021
When the former museum reopened in May 2021, its COVID-19 measures included advance booking, limited visitor numbers, face coverings and contact tracing.
For all general museum enquiries please contact buxton.museum@derbyshire.gov.uk
Former museum address (closed in 2023): Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Terrace Road, Buxton, SK17 6DA
T: 01629 533540
derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/buxton-museum/buxton-museum-and-art-gallery
The museum is now in a temporary building next to Buxton Library on Kents Bank Road. Find Buxton Library on Google Maps.
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