Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

The museums collections include:

Geology - carboniferous limestone fossils from the Peak District collected between 1900 and 1950;

Palaeontology - Ice Age animal bones and teeth from caves throughout the Peak District;

Archives - the papers and libraries of Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins and Dr J.W. Jackson, geologists associated with the county and with the Manchester Museum;

Photographs - including the Board collection of images of Buxton;

Local social history and ephemera;

Randolph Douglas 'House of Wonders' collection from Castleton which includes a huge collection of locks and keys and some very unusual Houdini material;

Fine art collection - mainly 19th and 20th century works in watercolours, oils and prints, including works by Brangwyn, Chagall, Chahine and their contemporaries.

Derbyshire Police Collection - uniforms, objects, photographs and a Norton Commander motorbike.