Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is located in West Midlands county
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Location in West Midlands
Established28 November 1885 (28 November 1885)
Collection sizec. 800,000 objects[1]
Visitors644,100 (2019)[2]
Websitebirminghammuseums.org.uk
Listed Building – Grade II*
Designated25 April 1952
Reference no.1210333

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) 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.[3]

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.[4] Entrance to the Museum and Art Gallery is free, but some major exhibitions in the Gas Hall incur an entrance fee.

  1. ^ "Birmingham Museums Trust Collection". Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  2. ^ "ALVA - Association of Leading Visitor Attractions". www.alva.org.uk. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  3. ^ Fisher, Mark (2005). "Barber Institute of Fine Arts". Britain's Best Museums and Galleries: From the Greatest Collections to the Smallest Curiosities. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 205–207. ISBN 0-14-101960-3.
  4. ^ "West Mids accountants appointed by largest independent museums trust". Commercial News Media. 22 July 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2013.