Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Chamberlain Square
Birmingham
West Midlands
B3 3DH
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

Main Website

www.bmag.org.uk

Preraphaelite Online Resource

www.preraphaelites.org

Resources for Teachers, Parents and Kids

www.schoolsliaison.org.uk

Online Collections

www.bmagic.org.uk

Birmingham Black History Website

www.birminghamblackhistory.com

E-mail

General Enquiries

bmag.enquiries@birmingham.gov.uk

Picture Library

picture.library@birmingham.gov.uk

Telephone

0121 303 2834

Fax

0121 303 1394

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
The exterior of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery showing the main entrance and the clock tower.
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Founded in 1885, the collections cover fine art and applied arts, archaeology and ethnography, local and industrial history. The Fine and Applied Art Collections include paintings and drawings, British Watercolours and Arts and Crafts. The Museum and Art Gallery has an ever changing programme of temporary exhibitions and its permanent collection includes the famous Pre-Raphaelites. Major shows are housed in the restored Gas Hall.

The Museum Shop stocks a wide range of souvenirs and gifts and the splendid licensed Edwardian Tea Room provides refreshments in magnificent surroundings.

This museum has a Designated Collection of national importance.

Venue Type:

Museum, Gallery

 Opening hours

Mon-Thurs & Sat 10.00-17.00
Fri 10.30-17.00
Sun 12.30-17.00

Closed on December 25, 26 and January 1.

 Admission charges

Entrance to the Museum & Art Gallery is FREE.
Some exhibitions charge an admission fee.

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Guided tours
  • Information point provided
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Cafeteria
  • Refreshments
  • Restaurant
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Braille information and/or interpretation
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Touch exhibits
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
  • Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Loan service
  • Study facilities
 Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

Chamberlain Square
Birmingham
West Midlands
B3 3DH
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

Main Website

www.bmag.org.uk

Preraphaelite Online Resource

www.preraphaelites.org

Resources for Teachers, Parents and Kids

www.schoolsliaison.org.uk

Online Collections

www.bmagic.org.uk

Birmingham Black History Website

www.birminghamblackhistory.com

E-mail

General Enquiries

bmag.enquiries@birmingham.gov.uk

Picture Library

picture.library@birmingham.gov.uk

Telephone

0121 303 2834

Fax

0121 303 1394

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

This museum has a Designated Collection of national importance.

There are over 500,000 objects in Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery's collection. Our collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and drawings draws visitors from around the world. Our permanent displays include fine art from the Renaissance to the present, topographical views of Birmingham, metalwork, ceramics and glass, Egypt and the ancient world, world cultures, the history of Birmingham's Bull Ring, social history and wooden artefacts. If you want to see a particular object, check beforehand to find out if it is on display. You can also visit our stores, where you can see a wide range of objects including vintage cars and industrial objects - just check our website for dates of stores open days and tours.

Collection details

World Cultures, Weapons and War, Toys and Hobbies, Social History, Personalities, Music, Fine Art, Design, Decorative and Applied Art, Costume and Textiles, Coins and Medals, Archives, Archaeology

Key artists and exhibits

  • Designated Collection
  • Pre-Raphaelites
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • William Holman Hunt
  • John Everett Millais
  • Ford Madox Brown
  • Edward Burne Jones
  • Birmingham School
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Renaissance art
  • Baroque art
  • Victorian art
  • Modern art
  • Metalwork
  • Coins and medals
  • Chinese ceramics
  • Ceramics
  • Glass
  • Egypt
  • Sultanganj Buddha
  • World cultures
  • Ancient World
  • Archaeology
  • Birmingham history
  • Social history
  • Pinto collection of wooden objects

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available
  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Chamberlain Square
Birmingham
West Midlands
B3 3DH
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

Main Website

www.bmag.org.uk

Preraphaelite Online Resource

www.preraphaelites.org

Resources for Teachers, Parents and Kids

www.schoolsliaison.org.uk

Online Collections

www.bmagic.org.uk

Birmingham Black History Website

www.birminghamblackhistory.com

E-mail

General Enquiries

bmag.enquiries@birmingham.gov.uk

Picture Library

picture.library@birmingham.gov.uk

Telephone

0121 303 2834

Fax

0121 303 1394

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

Lost in Lace: New approaches by UK and international artists

29 November 2011 — 19 February 2012 *on now

Lost in Lace is a unique opportunity to see exciting, international work that will make you think about lace in a totally different way.

Featuring large scale, theatrical and visually spectacular work, this exhibition challenges perceptions of what lace can be, involving the visitor in an environment where spaces become fluid and thread creates entirely new boundaries.

Suitable for

  • Any age

Where

The Gas Hall at BMAG

Website

http://lostinlace.org.uk/

A Life in Prints: The Tessa Sidey Bequest

17 September 2011 — 4 March 2012 *on now

Tessa Sidey, Curator of Prints and Drawings at BM&AG for nearly 30 years, died on New Year's Day 2011 after a long illness.

Tessa generously bequeathed to the Museum 33 20th-century prints, drawings and studio ceramics from her private collection.

Suitable for

  • Any age

Admission

Free

Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration

13 January — 25 March 2012 *on now

Ten of the Royal Collection’s finest drawings by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci travel to five museums and galleries across the United Kingdom. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is the first UK venue to show this exhibition.

The exhibition has been selected to show the extraordinary scope of Leonardo’s interests – painting and sculpture, engineering, botany, mapmaking, hydraulics and anatomy – and his use of different media – pen and ink, red and black chalks, and metalpoint.

Admission

Free

Me, You and Everything Else

19 November 2011 — 15 April 2012 *on now

Me, You and Everything Else' offers a compelling photographic portrait of life on Castle Vale Estate as it is lived today.

For the project, young people from Castle Vale Performing Arts College and the Sanctuary Youth Centre worked with older participants from Castle Vale Community Housing Association sheltered housing to create their own view of the estate as they see it, of friends and family and of themselves.

Suitable for

  • Any age

Where

The Community Gallery

Admission

Free.

Chamberlain Square
Birmingham
West Midlands
B3 3DH
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

Main Website

www.bmag.org.uk

Preraphaelite Online Resource

www.preraphaelites.org

Resources for Teachers, Parents and Kids

www.schoolsliaison.org.uk

Online Collections

www.bmagic.org.uk

Birmingham Black History Website

www.birminghamblackhistory.com

E-mail

General Enquiries

bmag.enquiries@birmingham.gov.uk

Picture Library

picture.library@birmingham.gov.uk

Telephone

0121 303 2834

Fax

0121 303 1394

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Digital and online resources

Egyptian Mummy

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/egyptmummy.htm

Greek Pot Painter

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/greecepot.htm

Learning about Landscapes

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/landscape.htm

Have you ever noticed that artists use special tricks to make their pictures look like they are going back into the distance? Explore some of their tricks or have a go at creating your own landscapes.

Lost Luggage

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/lostluggage/train.htm

Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource

http://www.preraphaelites.org

Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery received funding from JISC to digitise the Pre-Raphaelite collection and make it accessible online for the education community. The resulting Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource provides full record information and allows users to examine images in great detail. You can browse the online collection, make simple searches or interrogate the collection data using filtering tools. The ability to filter the collection in this way should be particularly useful for study and research. You can also interact with the online collection by creating your own personal collections of images and by discussing the works with the online community.

Roman Centurion

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/romancent.htm

The Last of England

http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1891P24

World War Two

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/bombdamage.htm

 Face to face resources

Culture Club

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/2004/general/extras/cultureClub.pdf

Join Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery's club for children and families which encourages you to enjoy the exhibitions, take part in lively events and join in with exciting activities. Members receive a regular newsletter about events, a passport to record museum visits and information about competitions, amongst other things.

How to obtain

It is free to join Culture Club. Fill in the online form and post it off. Call Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on 0121 3032834 for more information about the gallery's events.

Chamberlain Square
Birmingham
West Midlands
B3 3DH
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

Main Website

www.bmag.org.uk

Preraphaelite Online Resource

www.preraphaelites.org

Resources for Teachers, Parents and Kids

www.schoolsliaison.org.uk

Online Collections

www.bmagic.org.uk

Birmingham Black History Website

www.birminghamblackhistory.com

E-mail

General Enquiries

bmag.enquiries@birmingham.gov.uk

Picture Library

picture.library@birmingham.gov.uk

Telephone

0121 303 2834

Fax

0121 303 1394

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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