Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Address: Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, B3 3DH
Telephone: +44 [0]121 303 2834
One of the world's best collections of Pre-Raphaelite paintings can be seen here, including important works by Burne-Jones, a native of Birmingham. Also on display are fine silver, ceramics and glass.
More than half a million objects fill the cabinets and walls of Birmingham's museums. Here you will find everything from Renaissance masterpieces to 9,000-year-old Middle-Eastern treasures.
The Art Gallery is most noted for the extensive collection of paintings ranging from the 14th to the 21st century. It includes work by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the largest collection of works by Edward Burne-Jones in the world. The collection includes works by Canaletto, Lowry, Gainsborough
The collection of antiquities includes coins from ancient times through to the Middle Ages, artefacts from Ancient India and Central Asia Asia, Ancient Cyprus and Ancient Egypt. There is material from Classical Greece, The Roman Empire and Latin America. There is also mediaeval material.
Entrance to the Museum and Art Gallery is free, but some major exhibitions in the Gas Hall incur an entrance fee
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