Derby Museum and Art Gallery

The Derby Museum and Art Gallery is a museum in the central English city of Derby. It houses the most extensive collection of paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby and an extensive collection of regional porcelain. In addition, archaeological, historical and military history exhibits as well as a Department of Geology and Natural History.

Collections

The world's most comprehensive collection of paintings of the painter Joseph Wright from the 18th century shows portrait and landscape painting as well as scenes from literature, industry and other subjects.

The porcelain collection includes exhibits from 1750, including those of the manufacturer Royal Crown Derby and other regional manufacturers. According to the museum's collection has international standing.

The archaeological collection is focused mainly on local finds from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages, but also contains two well-preserved Egyptian mummies, whose precise origin is unknown. They were probably acquired from the hands of a local collector in 1859 or 1860.

A military history section deals primarily with the history of local cavalry regiments as the 9th/12th Royal Lancers, the Derbyshire Yeomanry and the Sherwood Foresters.

At Derby role in the Jacobite Rising of 1745, in a reconstructed " Bonnie Prince Charlie Room " recalls. The original wooden panels from the local Exeter House, according to the museum, " one of the greatest treasures of the city ", dated to the early 18th century.

The natural history collection of the museum displays fossils as an ichthyosaur, a 1895 in Derby found, about 120,000 -year-old hippo skeleton and stuffed pigeon " King of Rome ", which is flown back in 1913 by Rome to Derby.

Exhibits

Porcelain Collection

Sarcophagus in the collection

The hippo skeleton in the Natural History Collection

"The King of Rome"

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