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Wonders of the Peak

Welcome to the Peak District and Derbyshire's online collection. There are 416 Wonders, organised into 12 Themes.
There is also 1 active Challenge that you can contribute to , and 3482 museum objects that you can view.

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Featured Wonder

Chatsworth Gardens: A Short History

The landscape around Chatsworth is iconic and instantly recognisable - developed over 500 years.

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There are 415 more Wonders to explore. Browse the complete collection.

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Pick from our set of Themes that bring together different Wonders.

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Themes

The Themes are a great way to dive into the Wonders of the Peak collection and to understand how it is organised.

More themes

In addition to the two examples above, there are 10 more Themes to explore.

You might find that some of the Themes have corresponding spaces within the Museum where you can see a selection of related objects in one place.

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Find Wonders in the wild

Use the Pocket Wonders mobile app to track down Wonders outdoors in Buxton and the Peak District. Your phone or tablet will help you uncover something new each time you step outside.

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Dig through the layers of the landscape to reveal archaeology then save the objects to your personalised museum collection.

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Get involved in improving and expanding our collection of Wonders by responding to Challenges. Click here for a quick look at our current Challenge.

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Featured Challenge

Schools of the Peak - Museum Challenge

Use this challenge to upload and share your school's work; from stories and articles, to photography and artwork.

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Buxton Museum & Art Gallery

The Wonders out in the landscape are linked to the Wonders of the Peak exhibits in Buxton Museum & Art Gallery. The Museum is a great place to start your trip to the Peak District.

Out of Africa: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor

Volunteer archivist Ian Gregory shines his unique torch on another murky corner of Buxton Museum’s collections: In 1921, miners working at Broken Hill, Zambia (then called Northern Rhodesia) discovered the skull of an ancestor of humanity. Reports of this discovery came into the collections at Buxton Museum, via the geologists William Boyd Dawkins and J.W. […]

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