8 Must-Visit Attractions in Birmingham 🇬🇧✨

1️⃣ Victoria Square 🏛️ The heart of Birmingham! Explore: • 1832 Town Hall (Roman-style with 40 stunning marble columns) 🎶 • World-class Symphony Hall (home to the CBSO) 🎻 • Statues of Queen Victoria & inventor James Watt 👑⚙️ • Renaissance-style Council House & "Big Brum" clock ⏰ • Shakespeare Memorial Room (rare book collection!) 📚 2️⃣ Birmingham Back to Backs 🏘️ Step into 19th-century workers' cottages! • Experience working-class life 👨‍🏭 • Visit a 1930s sweet shop & join workshops 🍬 3️⃣ The Roundhouse & Gas Street Basin 🏗️ • 1874 horseshoe-shaped former warehouse • Perfect for canal walks, kayaking, or cycling 🚣‍♂️ • Trendy restaurants/cafés in converted dockside warehouses ☕ 4️⃣ Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery 🖼️ • Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces + 17th-19th century art • Rodin sculptures & city history exhibits • Edwardian tearoom for proper afternoon tea 🍰 5️⃣ Birmingham Botanical Gardens 🌿 • 15-acre Victorian paradise with glasshouses • Famous bonsai collection + 7,000+ plants • Tropical birds & butterflies! 🦜🦋 6️⃣ Thinktank Science Museum 🔭 • Hands-on industrial machines & steam engines • Chocolate packaging exhibits + Spitfire gallery ✈️ • Planetarium for cosmic adventures! 🌠 7️⃣ National SEA LIFE Centre 🐠 • 1-million-litre ocean tank with underwater tunnel • 2,000+ creatures – meet otters & penguins! 🦦🐧 • LEGOLAND Discovery next door 🧩 8️⃣ Jewellery Quarter 💎 • 200+ jewellers producing 40% of UK jewellery • Museum of the Jewellery Quarter (see workshops!) • Don’t miss: Pen Museum & St. Paul’s Square ✒️ #UKStudentLife #Birmingham #UKTravel #MustVisit #HiddenGems