Birmingham Museum
From Citypedia Birmingham
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery has a large collection covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, archaeology, ethnography, local and industrial history.
Entrance to the Museum and Art Gallery is free, but some major exhibitions in the Gas Hall incur an entrance fee.
History
Opened in 1885 as an art gallery, the museum occupies an extended part of the Council House built less than a decade after the original Council House (subsidised by the corporation's Gas Department to circumvent the Public Libraries and Museums Act which limited the use of public funds on the arts) and, via an elaborate archway (internally a corridor), much of the 1911-1919 Council House Extension block.
Other Locations
The museum also has several branches and historic buildings. Aston Hall, Blakesley Hall, Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, Sarehole Mill, Soho House, Weoley Castle
