Birmingham Art Gallery
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| Type | Museum, Art Gallery | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Chamberlain Square | ||||||||||||||||||
| Town or city | Birmingham | ||||||||||||||||||
| Country | England | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current tenants | Birmingham Museums Trust | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Owner | Birmingham City Council | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 46.43 metres (152.3 ft) (Clock Tower) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Established | 28 November 1885 |
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| Collection size | c. 800,000 objects |
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780,879 (2016) |
| Website | www |
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Listed Building – Grade II*
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| Designated | 25 April 1952 |
| Reference no. | 1210333 |
780,879 (2016)
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) (grid reference SP066869) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, natural history, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history.
The museum/gallery is run by Birmingham Museums Trust, the largest independent museums trust in the United Kingdom, which also runs eight other museums around the city. Entrance to the Museum and Art Gallery is free, but some major exhibitions in the Gas Hall incur an entrance fee. In 2016, 780,879 visitors came to the museum making it the 21st most visited museum nationally and 9th outside London.
In 1829, the Birmingham Society of Artists created a private exhibition building in New Street, Birmingham while the historical precedent for public education around that time produced the Factory Act 1833, the first instance of Government funding for education.
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