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The building is closed until 2022. Join us online and for outdoor events.

Chamberlain Square
Birmingham, B3 3DH
0121 348 8000 Directions

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery will remain closed until 2022 while essential electrical upgrading takes place.

Online Lecture: Beautiful and Useful

William Morris wrote in The Beauty of Life ‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.’

Museum & Art Gallery

27 Jul 2021 - 27 Jul 2021

6.30pm - 7.30pm

Book tickets £12.50

Online Lecture: Symbolism in Eastern ...

Tour and Talk

Examine the detail in any Pre Raphaelite painting and almost inevitably you will find a symbol, which could add meaning to your understanding of th...

Museum & Art Gallery

31 Aug 2021 - 31 Aug 2021

6.30pm - 7.30pm

Book tickets £12.50

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Birmingham Museums On Demand - July Pass

Tour and Talk

Birmingham Museums On Demand gives you access to exclusive* digital content created by our in-house experts. Each monthly pass contains links to le...

Museum & Art Gallery

24 Jun 2021 - 31 Jul 2021

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Book tickets £20.00

Online Lecture: the Pioneers - Breaki...

Tour and Talk

The Lunar Society of Birmingham was an informal meeting of minds who met every month to discuss how science and technology could be made to serve s...

Museum & Art Gallery

10 Aug 2021 - 10 Aug 2021

6.30pm - 7.30pm

Book tickets £12.50

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Freedom 50

Exhibition

Freedom 50 is a new outdoor exhibition that celebrates 50 years of Bangladeshi independence, featuring powerful and evocative photography taken ove...

Museum & Art Gallery

22 May 2021 - 31 Aug 2021

8.00am - 8.00pm

No booking required

What's On

Find out about our online events during our closure period.

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Shop Online

Our online shop sells the merchandise from recent exhibitions as well as a wide range of products inspired by the Museum’s collection.

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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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Bringing Our 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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Freedom 50 – New Outdoor Exhibition Opens in Birmingham’s Centenary Square

                                A new outdoor exhibition showcasing photographs taken over the last five decades opens in Birmingham’s Centenary Square on Saturday 22 May. 
Organised by Legacy West Midlands in collaboration with...
                            

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Inspire ’21 Youth Art Competition

                                Hello again and welcome to the sixth year of our fantastic Inspire art competition!

Every year, we invite young people from across the Midlands to enter our art competition, sharing their creati...

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