Paintings and objects on loan and where to see them

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Whilst infrastructure works continue at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the building is closed, we have lent a considerable number of our finest paintings to other galleries and museums in order to provide increased public access to our extensive collection. Here is where you can see them:
 

The Staffordshire Hoard

Can be found on display in 2 different locations

  1. On display at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent.
  2. On display at Tamworth Castle, in the exhibition, ‘Battle and Tribute’.

Vanity by Helen Chadwick

On display in the exhibition 'Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures' at The Hepworth Wakefield from 17 May - 27 October 2025.
 

Selection of Bicycles

A large selection of bicycles from the collection are on display at STEAMHouse, Birmingham City University for their Cycles of Innovation exhibition (19 July 2024 – 18 July 2027).

  • 1958S00978 BSA Gents Bicycle, BSA, Small Heath, Birmingham.
  • 1959S01087 Gents Safety Bicycle, BSA, Small Heath, Birmingham.
  • 1964S01828 New Hudson Safety Bicycle, The New Hudson Cycle Co. Ltd, Deritend, Birmingham.
  • 1968S02226.00001 Bicycle, Quadrant Chainless, Quadrant Cycle Co., Sheepcote Street, Birmingham.
  • 1968S02235.00001 New Hudson Twin Tube Tandem, The New Hudson Cycle Co. Ltd, Deritend, Birmingham.
  • 1973S02669.00001 BSA 3 Speed Bicycle, BSA, Small Heath, Birmingham.
  • 1974S02796.00001 Gents New Hudson Bicycle, The New Hudson Cycle Co. Ltd, Deritend, Birmingham.
  • 1979S03409 Sun Sports Model Bicycle, Sun Cycle & Fittings Co., Brook Street, Aston, Birmingham.
  • 1984S03743 Sun 'Wasp' Bicycle, Sun Cycle & Fittings Co., Brook Street, Aston, Birmingham.
  • 1988S04090.00001 Raleigh Randonneur Touring Bicycle, Raleigh, Nottingham; frame by T. I. Reynolds, Tyseley, Birmingham.
  • 1988S04117 BSA Ladies Bicycle, BSA, Small Heath, Birmingham.
  • 1988S04123.1 Hercules 'Blenheim' Bicycle, Hercules Cycle & Motor Co., Aston, Birmingham.
  • 1989S04169 Phillips Ladies Single Speed Bicycle, Phillips Cycles Limited, Smethwick, Sandwell.
  • 2002D00192 Green BSA Bicycle, BSA, Small Heath, Birmingham.

Portrait of Count Nicholas Frochot by Andrea Appiani

On display in the exhibition 'Le Peintre de Napoléon et de Joséphine en Italie: Andrea Appiani' at Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau, France from 16 March 2025 – 28 July 2025.

A Saint of the Eastern Church (formerly called A Greek Acolyte) by Simeon Solomon
Lilium Auratum by John Frederick Lewis
The Blind Girl by John Everett Millais 
Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

On display in the exhibition 'Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850—1915' at the Watts Gallery from 15 May - 9 November 2025.