Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

WE'RE NOW OPEN! We’re thrilled to welcome you back today from 10am–5pm (Wednesday - Sunday). FREE entry! Here’s what you'll find on display: - ‘Made in Birmingham’ in the Industrial Gallery. - The Round Room: ‘One Fresh Take’. 1/4

Well done to @mcrartgallery for winning The Museums Change Lives Award! As runners up, we thank @museumsassoc for recognising the importance of genuine engagement with our most important asset - our collections. Shout out to @SalisburyMuseum too for their great work!

Come along and meet @joelycett this Saturday (16 Nov) as he signs copies of his new book 'Joe Lycett's Art Hole'. Pre-booking essential: birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/book-si…

#SundayShowcase We’re glad to see the Museum and Art Gallery is open again. So, let’s look at the history with Stuart Davies’ By the Gains of Industry - Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1885 – 1985. Ref - L 50.1 @LibraryofBham @BM_AG

#Museum30 today is #Green Here is our record breaking Austin A90 Atlantic coupe that achieved 63(!) records at the Indianapolis Production Car Endurance event in 1949. Maybe it was filled up by our green petrol pump. Was it even built with our green mechanical hammer? 🤔

#Museum30 today is #Fragmented We have quite a lot of fragments here at the MCC including bone, wood, fabric, pottery & wallpaper. Part of of our job here is to clean, conserve, document & where possible, repair these fragments & hopefully make them whole again

#Museum30 today is #Glow and here we have a headlamp which would have provided quite a glow from the last remaining DV4 electric dustcart. This plied the streets of Brum between 1938 & 1971 & it was charged using electricity taken from burning the waste it collected

On 18th November we are holding a #Free #Webinar for primary teachers where we share an introduction to The Superpower of Looking 👀and explore 'The Last of England' by Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893). Book your place here 👉bit.ly/3YepYD1 📸 @BM_AG @FreelandsF @artukdotorg

You can visit a small free display on this project @BM_AG until 15 Nov (open Wed-Sun). Also, join Sophie for a free drop-in workshop where you can cut, stick & draw your experience of a balanced diet on Sat 9 Nov (11am), and Thur 14 Nov (2pm). birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/tastes-… 5/5

3. Oral History from 1984: Diana Braggs talks about cross cultural learning. 4/5

Our Public Health Research Officer, Sophie Beckett, dives into our oral history collection in her latest blog 'Oral Histories Served: Birmingham Food Across Generations'. Hear snippets from 10 oral histories from 1984 in her blog: birminghammuseums.org.uk/stories/birmin… 1/5

It's dreams for today's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange celebrating Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa @kettlesyard. This is Edward Hughes' "Night and Her Train of Stars" (1912) from @BM_AG. It's kinda dreamy.

In this short video, Victoria Osborne, Co-Curator of the Victorian Radicals exhibition, discusses Joseph Southall’s artwork New Lamps for Old. Southall died #onThisDay (6 Nov) in 1944. You can see this piece in #VictorianRadicals exhibition (open Wed - Sun) until 5 Jan 2025.

Day 3 of #museum30 is #Fabric We have many costumes, clothing & fabrics here at the MCC. We study, clean, conserve and even loan out to exhibitions

For day 2 of #museum30 the word is #Introduction We're an accredited museum holding over 80% of a collection of around a million items for BMT. MCC also cares for, researches & conserves artefacts both here as well as those on display at our other sites

It's #museum30 and day 1 is #YourMuseum We are the Museum Collection Centre in Birmingham, England and we hold over 800,000 objects. Some of which you can see every Friday

On 18th November we are holding a #Free #Webinar for primary teachers where we share an introduction to The Superpower of Looking 👀and explore 'The Last of England' by Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893). Book your place here 👉bit.ly/3YepYD1 📸 @BM_AG @FreelandsF @artukdotorg

My dream office. For its location and design. Sir Whitworth Wallis, the first Curator and Director of @BM_AG 📷Birmingham Museums Trust

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition #WPY is now available to view at BMAG! On loan from @NHM_London, the exhibition features images that capture fascinating animal behaviour and breathtaking diversity of the natural world. Find out more 👉 shorturl.at/MfPRz