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Life on Lockdown: Collecting the Birm...

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Bringing Our Museums to You

While the doors to Birmingham Museums Trust venues are closed, there are ways to keep in touch and engaged online, as we bring the museums to you.

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Virtual Tour

You can now look inside Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery without having to be there. Filmed in summer 2019, these four tours show you all the art ...

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Birmingham Museums for Kids

BMAG for Kids interactive online resource is a great place for pupils to find out about: Art, Victorians, World War II, Egypt, Romans and more!

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Learning at Home Activities

As you can’t visit our museums on a family day out or as part of a school trip we are bringing our museums to you.

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Inspire 20 Now Open!

This is the fifth year of our popular Inspire art competition. With the current lockdown we wanted to put some positivity back in our lives and, wo...

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The Big Brum BioBlitz

Nature is taking over! As we spend more time in our homes we want to encourage families, young people and adults to explore their natural environme...

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Recipe Boxes

Choose from 3 recipe boxes, delivered to your door. The boxes contain fresh ingredients & simple instructions so you can make delicious meals at home.

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Temporary Closure of Birmingham Museu...

Following careful consideration of the COVID-19 situation, we have decided to temporarily close all Birmingham Museums sites to the public.

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Object Spotlights: Reconstructed Staffordshire Hoard Helmet

Edd Thomas, Museum Enabler Co-ordinator, talks about the Staffordshire Hoard and one of his favourite objects at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the Staffordshire Hoard helmet.

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New artwork revealed online

                            A new experimental film called Excerpt has been revealed online by Mixed Milk, a Birmingham artist called Martin McNally, as part of Birmingham Museums’ Cut, Copy, Remix project.
McNally’s proposa...
                        

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Keep well with creative activities at home, part 3

                            Culture and creativity make you feel good! Whether you’re going on a virtual museum tour, listening to music, writing poetry, or making your favourite craft, there’s lots of research that getting i...
                        

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