Museums in Birmingham, West Midlands - Art Museums and Galleries in Birmingham, West Midlands, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Art museums and galleries in Birmingham, West Midlands, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham Back to Backs, Curzon Street railway station, Tyseley Locomotive Works, Ikon Gallery, Thinktank, Birmingham, Custard Factory, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Aston Hall, Blakesley Hall, Mac, OOM Gallery, Cadbury World, Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham Proof House, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Museum of Science and Industry, Birmingham, Sarehole Mill, Soho House, Pen Room, Birmingham Artists Committee, Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, Oozells Street Board School, Centre of the Earth, The Drum, Fierce , International Project Space, Artlounge, St. Paul's Gallery, Vivid, Halcyon Gallery, Ikon Eastside, Colony, Periscope, Three White Walls Gallery. Excerpt: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BM&AG) (grid reference ) is an art gallery in Birmingham, England. Entrance to the Museum and Art Gallery is free, but some major exhibitions in the Gas Hall incur an entrance fee. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history. Industrial Gallery, the original part of the Art GalleryIn 1829 the Birmingham Society of Artists created a private exhibition building in New Street, Birmingham while the historical precedent for public education around that time produced the Factory Act 1833, the first instance of Government funding for education. The Museums Act 1845 " boroughs with a population of 10,000 or more to raise a 1/2d for the establishment of museums." In 1864 the first public exhibition room, was opened when the Society and other donors presented 64 pictures as well as the Sultanganj Buddha to Birmingham Council and these were housed in the Free Library building but, due to lack of space, the pictures had ...