Treasure-hunter trips up

 A Tricky Week for Treasure-hunters

This has been an interesting few days for our Cabinet of Treasures activity. Some ups, some downs, some just puzzling moments!

But as we are hunting Treasures, I thought I should document our various misadventures...the snares and snarls set in the path of determined Treasure-hunters....

To be clear, we are looking for personal treasures. No,  not your gold teeth or the family silver (although we probably wouldn't say 'no!'...). We're looking for, and listening to, stories: what are the treasures of Glossop and the High peak for you? You might see  your house and home as treasure. Or a treasure might the people around you: your family (with or without precious silver), your friends. It might places where you walk, play, find peace and quiet. It might be the animals you see, the trees you meet....Our treasures are your stories, built into tiny dioramas and hidden in matchboxes and slowly being built into our Cabinet: a sort of crazy Advent Calendar of doors to open and scenes to encounter

But this week...

• dates went wrong. sorted, that day went well and no-one apparently noticed that we had promoted a day that no-one came to! But lots came to the next one...says a lot about where people find their information!
• Then the weather hit. 
• And today...
• started wet: put people off
• sun came out...and went away again. A cold wind blew.
• but we set up in Manor Park in Glossop and hoped
• few folk around and most of them with dogs (very friendly and talkative...both dogs and people)
• chatting, talking, watching the clouds....
• and the gate is locked...it wasn't when we came in (or we couldn't have...)
• it's locked now
• but the lovely man at the Miniature Railway has a key and can let us out...
• only he's not here for long....
• ...flee.

Treasure hunting will resume next week with exciting sessions with Space2Explore in Hayfield and at St Andrews Primary School in Glossop. Then look out for, and please join us, at the Derbyshire Makes Glossop Celebration on Saturday 8th May...

House, cave and castle: public event

a Bates Panorama

Up your street

join us on

Thursday 2nd June

at

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

2,000 years of Buxton life is built into our streets, streets full of secrets and stories, treasures, trees - and houses. Inspired by the Bates Panoramic Prints of Buxton scenes, on Thursday 2^nd June, at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery we’ll be making the pop-up streets of Buxton.Buxton has a legacy of bildings and relics from cave dwellings in the hills to lost Roman settlements and medieval farms. There is the 16th Century Old Hall and the spectacular Georgian sweep of the Crescent Hotel. But this is a town, the home of thousands of people and those domestic houses are valuable too.

there might be some wild imaginations here....

So join us at the museum to make your own house as a card-sculpture and help us build the streets of the Buxton 

You might make your own your house as it is now. It might be your house once upon a time. It might even be the house you wished you lived in (palaces?, caves?, castles, we can acommodate them all!). And if you are a visitor - that's all right, we'll offer you a Buxton house (or cave or castle or mansion) to occupy.

we have adventurous Gardens, too

Understanding a town is as much about feelings and stories as architecture so on this exciting day we’ll mix all three

During a session, visitors can make their own pop-up building and add it to our long streets of Buxton panoramas – and then then take them home at the end of the session as a reminder of the Buxton you (might) live in!

Practical points:

Date: Thursday 2^nd June 2016

Times: there will be two sessions to choose from 10am  - 12noon and 1- 3pm

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

Cost: this workshop is free and materials are provided

Bookings: you don’t need to book a place, just come along and join in but last new entries will be at 11.30 and 2.30

For more information email: buxton.museum@derbyshire.gov.uk or tel: 01629 533540.

This event is one of a series supporting the Museum’s Collections in theLandscape project. This project is expanding public access to the Museum’s Collections both in the museum by redeveloping the Wonders of the Peak Gallery ad through school and public activities and enabling access to the Collections through virtual resources