Libby Bove brings her Museum of Roadside Magic to Wirksworth as part of the Guisers exhibition, coinciding with the Wirksworth Festival on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th September

Step inside a unique exhibition that explores the intersection of folk ritual, plant knowledge, and vehicle maintenance—or what Libby has coined Roadside Magic. Through an extensive collection of artefacts, costumes, photographs, and ecclesiastical curios, this is a museum unlike any other—myth and tradition reimagined for the roadside

Inside the museum you’ll discover:

• Vehicular charms and practical ritual objects⁠—small artefacts used daily for protection or remedy
• Spectacle objects and pageantry pieces—items from grand roadside celebrations and seasonal rituals
• A rich weaving of folk customs like Gasket Dancing, Diesel Clapping, Pipe Dressing, Brydes of Tacho, and more—all imagined as parts of an evolving roadlore practice.

Bove’s artistic practice is woven from Albion’s rich folk magic history and her own lived experience of life on the road, both professional and domestic. She reimagines everyday ritual as regenerative and necessary in our relationship with mobility, craft, and transformation.

Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th September — 10 am to 4 pm