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Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
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General information
Type Museum, Art Gallery
Architectural style
Location Chamberlain Square
Town or city Birmingham
Country England
Current tenants Birmingham Museums Trust
Construction started
  • 1881
  • 1908 (Extension)
Completed
  • 1885
  • 1917 (Extension)
Owner Birmingham City Council
Height 50 metres (160 ft) (Clock Tower)
Design and construction
Architect
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Established 28 November 1885
Collection size 500,000 objects
Visitors

936,839 (2015)

Website www.birminghammuseums.org.uk
Listed Building – Grade II*
Designated 25 April 1952
Reference no. 1210333
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Established 28 November 1885
Collection size 500,000 objects
Visitors

936,839 (2015)

Website www.birminghammuseums.org.uk
Listed Building – Grade II*
Designated 25 April 1952
Reference no. 1210333

936,839 (2015)

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 2015, 936,839 visitors came to the museum making it the 16th most visited museum nationally and 5th outside of 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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