Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Currently Closed due to Covid but plans for reopening in time for the 2022 Commonwealth Games are already underway

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https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/bmag/virtual-tour

"Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) first opened in 1885. It is housed in a Grade II* listed city centre landmark building. When the building is open, there are over 40 galleries to explore that display art, applied art, social history, archaeology and ethnography. .Birmingham Museums Trust holds the most important collection of Pre-Raphaelite art anywhere in the world, numbering over 3000 paintings, drawings, prints and examples of decorative art and design."

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Chamberlain Square

Birmingham, B3 3DH

Email

BMAG.Enquiries@birminghammuseums.org.uk

Phone

0121 348 8000

Website

https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/bmag

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Always check with the venue directly for up-to-date information including opening times and admission charges as they may be subject to change

Our photographs were taken prior to the Closure of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG):

"BMAG will remain closed throughout 2021 while essential electrical upgrade work of Birmingham’s Council House complex takes place. While the building is closed Birmingham Museums Trust will continue to share items and stories from Birmingham’s collections with audiences in a variety of exciting and engaging ways both online and in the community.


BMAG is currently closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic but plans for reopening in time for the 2022 Commonwealth Games are already underway. Next year also marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of Birmingham’s collection and in celebration of this key moment, when the eyes of the world will be on the city, Birmingham Museum’s will use this opportunity to re-invigorate its collection re-interpreting it for the 21st Century


The reopening will be launched with a transformation of BMAG’s iconic Round Room. A radical new display of this stunning gallery will reflect the people of 21st Century Birmingham. In a sweeping change from the current paintings of landscapes, historic subjects and dignitaries from the past, the new We Are Birmingham display will present a vibrant celebration of the city that Birmingham has become. It will draw on new artworks as well as historic items from Birmingham’s Collections. 


2022 will also herald a programme of new exhibitions as well as celebrating the city’s treasures such as the Staffordshire Hoard, world-famous Pre-Raphaelites and more recent item"

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