Love it or loath it, It is impossible to ignore the fascinating spectacle of ants teeming out onto our urban pavements and garden’s and taking to the sky’s.

It’s funny how something you created at the start of your career, something you thought was long forgotten suddenly finds a new lease of life! That’s what’s happened to my first documentary, African Oasis, made in 1982.

With museums and galleries closed to the public, and staff at home, these buildings have become quiet, solitary spaces over the last four months.

As a visitor to an exhibition at Birmingham Museums, it’s possible you haven’t put much thought into how any of the objects came to be there.

Although Birmingham Museum Trust’s sites are closed currently, they are still attracting one group of visitors of a very unwelcome variety.

Each year at Birmingham Museums we welcome over 60 people on one or two week work experience placements across a number of our museums and historic properties.

Each year at Birmingham Museums we welcome over 60 people on one or two week work experience placements across a number of our museums and historic properties.

As you will have seen in our previous blog post we have been on a journey to visiting different Commonwealth War Graves sites around Lichfield which has led us to wonder what stories these stones could tell.

One solitary gravestone, in a quiet churchyard, was to mark the beginning of a lockdown journey of discovery.

Nature is taking over! So here are a few tips on how to get involved.