Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Established 1885
Location Chamberlain Square, Birmingham
Website http://www.bmag.org.uk
Industrial Gallery, the original part of the Art Gallery
Industrial Gallery, the original part of the Art Gallery
Sculpture Allegories of Art and Industry by William Bloye c 1919, over the north-west door of the Feeney Gallery extension, Great Charles Street
Sculpture Allegories of Art and Industry by William Bloye c 1919, over the north-west door of the Feeney Gallery extension, Great Charles Street
The link bridge between the original Art Gallery and the Art Gallery Extension.
The link bridge between the original Art Gallery and the Art Gallery Extension.

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BM&AG) (grid reference SP066869) is an art gallery in Birmingham, England. Opened in 1885, it has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history.

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[edit] Paintings

The Art Gallery is most noted for the extensive collection of paintings ranging from the 14th to the 21st century. It includes work by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the largest collection of works by Edward Burne-Jones in the world. The collection includes works by Canaletto, Lowry, Gainsborough.[1]

Dutch School

English School

Flemish School

French School

German School

Italian School

Spanish School

[edit] Antiquities

The collection of antiquities includes coins from ancient times through to the Middle Ages, artefacts from Ancient India and Central Asia, Ancient Cyprus and Ancient Egypt. There is material from Classical Greece, The Roman Empire and Latin America. There is also mediaeval material.

[edit] Location

The Museum and Art Gallery occupies an extended part of the Council House built less than a decade after the original Council House (subsidised by the corporation's Gas Department to circumvent the Public Libraries and Museums Act which limited the use of public funds on the arts) and, via an elaborate archway (internally a corridor), much of the 1911-1919 Council House Extension block. The main entrance is located in Chamberlain Square below the clock tower known locally as, “Big Brum”. The Extension Block has entrances via the Gas Hall (Edmund Street) and Great Charles Street. Waterhall (the old gas department) has its own entrance on Edmund Street.

Entrance to the Museum and Art Gallery is free, but some major exhibitions in the Gas Hall incur an entrance fee.

BM&AG is managed by Birmingham City Council.

The Round Room
The Round Room

[edit] Community museums

BM&AG also has many branch museums (some closed in the Winter) in historic buildings:

The Museum of Science and Industry, on Newhall Street from 1951 - 1997, has now closed. Many exhibits were moved to an independent "museum and science attraction" with an admission fee in the Thinktank.

[edit] References

  1. ^ BM&AG Fine Art

[edit] External links

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