Life in limestone seas!

Life in limestone seas

make your own prehistoric puppet!

 

Date: Tuesday February 18th

Times: 2 sessions: 10.30 - 12.30, 1.30 - 3.30 

some colourful finger-trilobites

This is a drop-in activity, no booking is needed and there is no charge for materials (although donations are always gratefully received!)

Where: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Terrace Rd, Buxton, SK17 6DA

 

Inspired by the fossils of Peak District limestone, join the our artists and make your own finger-puppet trilobites or a rockpool full of ancient animals or some ferocious fossil fish model

This event will be held among the exhibits of the Museum's White Peak/Dark Peak exhibition where you can find out more about our local geology and see how our dramatic landscapes have inspired artists over the centuries

 

hand-held Dunklosteus (the originals were about 5m long!)

The tide is still in!

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

our ancient seabed poses in a corner of the Gallery

The Ancient Landscape seabed is still cheerfully oozing (in a fluffy sort of way) in Buxton Museum and Art Gallery as part of the White Peak/Dark Peak exhibiton. if you are passing, please do drop in and stroke a seaweed

We have a public event on Tuesday 18th february: details will follow soon

you are advised to approach cautiously

a chair may offer good cover

...for a surreptitious approach

or you may loiter round a corner

the unsuspecting reef espied from behind a flipchart

triumph! a close encounter with with woolen wotsits! 

but please beware of the guardian seasquirts:
they have been known to swallow whole fingers

White Peak/Dark Peak runs until Saturday 22 February 2014
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Terrace Rd
Buxton
SK17 6DA

Opening hours during this period
Mondays: closed
Tuesday - Friday 9.30 - 5.30
Saturday: 9.30 - 5pm

High tide again!

High Tide again

From December 14th to February 22nd 2014, our Ancient Landscape will be adding its own distinctive wooly touch to Buxton Museum and Art Gallery’s “White Peak, Dark Peak” exhibition

Celebrating the inspiration that the gritty Dark Peak and softer landscapes of the limestone White Peak have offered  artists over the centuries, the exhibition features prints, paintings, finds and poems from the Museum collection. It includes several new pieces added to the collection during the Enlightenment! initiative.

Quietly loitering on one wall, is a poem by one of our own Ancient Landscape artists. Gordon MacLellan’s “The Hills are Waiting” is included as an invitation to visitors to step out and go exploring these dramatic landscapes for themselves.

Public events: we are planning a public event on Tuesday 18th February 2014 - more details to follow. There might be a weekend event as well...

Useful links:

Gordon’s blog

The Museum’s Collections in the Landscape programme

who could resist paddling in this ancient sea?