Birmingham Museum Trust main store facility housing 80% of the collection. Limited opening to the public for guided tours. Large natural history and Birmingham social history collections from huge machines to tiny shells. A number of important bequests housed in their entirety. If you, or a parent have lived or worked in the city, perhaps in industry, you will find it fascinating, and perhaps you have an oral history which could be captured for future generations? Special interest groups can visit by...
Read moreThe HP sauce sign, over 800,000 other artefacts that won't fit into Birmingham City Council's other museums. The rotation is in real evidence as items I've seen in BMAG within the last two years were here. Machinery, old computers, motorbikes, bicycles, Egyptology, jet engines, medical equipment. Endless wows for all the family. Book in advance but don't touch anything. Asbestos risk. Truly worth visiting. Sadly, the paintings weren't available today which would have included...
Read moreReally great to see behind the scenes as it were, great exhibits, well run, friendly staff, plenty of parking in the street. The only fly in the ointment was the youngish large posteriored woman with about ten kids and a double buggy hell bent on blocking up the very narrow Isles in the first exhibition hall for most of the morning, not moving to the rest of the exhibitions. There is always one...
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