Exterior view of museum with Chamberlain memorial

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Closure

The building is now closed for Birmingham City Council’s ongoing essential maintenance work, including electrical work, upgrading the heating, roof repairs and the replacement of lifts. We plan to reopen the museum sometime in 2024 - exact date to be confirmed.

There is a vertical neon light in four parts. The words in the lights read We Must Not Be Extreme.

New Acquisition: We Must Not Be Extreme by Faisal Hussain

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Birmingham Stories

  1. Design on paper for a stained-glass window with two panels and a small trefoil above. The left panel shows Christ as a child he is teaching a group of people, with Mary and Joseph in the background. The right panel shows the adult Christ blessing a group of young children. There are angels at the top and bottom of each panel and in the trefoil.

    Stained Glass Designs by John Hardman & Co.

    22 November 2023
  2. An abstract surrealist painting.

    Birmingham’s Sites of Surrealism

    26 July 2023
  3. Vanley Burke stands in front of an image from one of his photographs that has been blown up to be very large in size.

    Vanley Burke: ‘Rivers of Birminam’

    30 May 2023

  4. Snap Project: Birmingham queer women 1977-99

    26 June 2023
  5. The bronze statue of the archangel Lucifer. The male statue is naked. Lucifer has a feminine face and long hair. He has large wings that point upwards. His hands are outstretched and the palms of his hands are facing down.

    Lucifer at home in Birmingham

    21 August 2022
  6. A young woman is looking at her phone, and further back there is a woman who appears to be standing and waiting. In between them are the blurred figures of people walking in the busy area of the Bullring.

    Street Photography - Brum Stories

    18 November 2022
Exterior view of museum with Chamberlain memorial

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