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What's On
A comprehensive guide to what's happening at Birmingham's museums.
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Staffordshire Hoard
Location: Birmingham Museum
24th July 2010 - 31st December 2012
See artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard on display in Gallery 12. You can also take a closer look at Hoard objects on interactives and try handling a Saxon sword!
Type: Exhibitions
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A Life in Prints: The Tessa Sidey Bequest
Location: Birmingham Museum
17th September 2011 - 4th March 2012
Tessa Sidey, Curator of Prints and Drawings at BM&AG for nearly 30 years, died on New Year's Day 2011 after a long illness. On her death, Tessa generously bequeathed to the Museum 33 20th-century prints, drawings and studio ceramics from her private collection. An exhibition of these works of art will be in Gallery 20.
Type: Exhibitions
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Lost in Lace: New approaches by UK and international artists
Location: Birmingham Museum
29th October 2011 - 19th February 2012
Featuring large scale, theatrical and visually spectacular work, this exhibition challenges perceptions of what lace can be, involving the visitor in an environment where spaces become fluid and thread creates entirely new boundaries. Gas Hall. Admission free.
Type: Exhibitions
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Lost in Lace: Concealed and Revealed
Location: Birmingham Museum
30th October 2011 - 19th February 2012
This display links Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery's historic lace collection with the major exhibition 'Lost in Lace: New approaches by UK and international artists'. Bridge Gallery, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Type: Exhibitions
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Me, You and Everything Else
Location: Birmingham Museum
19th November 2011 - 15th April 2012
A photographic project looking at life on Castle Vale as it is lived today.
Type: Exhibitions
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Nativity Trail
Location: Birmingham Museum
29th November 2011 - 6th January 2012
The Nativity Trail allows visitors to discover images of the Christmas story from five hundred years of art, selected from the city of Birmingham's world-class collections. Follow the trail to discover pictures of the Christmas story from five hundred years of art.
Type: Activities
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Father Christmas
Location: Birmingham Museum
19th December 2011 - 21st December 2011
The return of the Best Father Christmas in Town! 12.30 - 4.30, tickets are £2.50 per child.
Type: Activities
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Christmas Spirit? Victorian Attitudes to Poverty in Art
Location: Birmingham Museum
20th December 2011 - 20th December 2011
A talk by curator Henrietta Lockhart at 1pm. Tickets are £2 per person
Type: Talks
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Christmas Tales in words and pictures
Location: Blakesley Hall
21st December 2011 - 21st December 2011
Family Christmas event. Story-telling Victorian Magic lantern show. Make a Christmas wish and place it on our Christmas tree. Pre-booking essential (50 seats per session) Morning session 10am to 12pm Adults £5 Concessions £4 Afternoon session 1 to 3pm Adults £5 Concessions £4
Type: Performances
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Spotlight
Location: Birmingham Museum
21st December 2011 - 21st December 2011
Put your own object under the spotlight - bring it to the museum for our experts to tell you all about it.
Type: Activities
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Guided Tour 1pm: 'Bella Vista' with Karen Howell
Location: Birmingham Museum
22nd December 2011 - 22nd December 2011
No need to bring a passport to enjoy the beautiful views of this "Grand Tour" of places far, and not so far away. Join Karen Howell on a tour of works within Birmingham's collection of sites around the world. Tickets are £2.00 per person - please purchase your ticket from the Vestibule reception desk and meet your guide in the Round Room at 1pm.
Type: Tours
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Father Christmas
Location: Birmingham Museum
23rd December 2011 - 23rd December 2011
The return of the Best Father Christmas in Town! Tickets are £2.50 per child. 12.30 - 4.30 on weekdays
Type: Activities
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Festive Family Craft
Location: Birmingham Museum
28th December 2011 - 30th December 2011
A drop-in, make and take activity occurring daily from Wednesday 28th - Friday 30th from 1-4pm. This activity takes place in the Industrial Gallery and costs £1.50 per child.
Type: Activities
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
4th January 2012 - 4th January 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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Guided Tour 1pm: 'An Epiphany'
Location: Birmingham Museum
5th January 2012 - 5th January 2012
Epiphany is a Christian holiday on 6th January which celebrates the visit of the Magi, the Three Wise Men, to the baby Jesus - it was this moment when his divinity was revealed to the world. Join Karen Howell on a tour which explores this theme within the collection at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Tickets are £2.00 and can be purchased from the Vestibule reception desk. Meet your guide, Karen Howell, in the Round Room at 1pm.
Type: Tours
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Free lunchtime classical guitar concert
Location: Birmingham Museum
6th January 2012 - 6th January 2012
1.10 - 1.50pm Free - no need to book Leo Turner is back by popular demand on the firt Friday of the month for a free classical guitar concert in the Round Room
Type: Performances
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Guided Tour 2.30pm: 'A New Year's Treat...the Treasures of BMAG'
Location: Birmingham Museum
7th January 2012 - 7th January 2012
Join Christine Moosavi on a tour exploring some of the most precious, beautiful and valuable items in our collection. Meet your guide in the Round Room at 2.30pm. Tickets are £2.00 and can be purchased from the Vestibule reception desk.
Type: Tours
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Guided Tour 2.30pm: 'An Introduction to the Pre-Raphaelites' with James McCormick
Location: Birmingham Museum
8th January 2012 - 8th January 2012
A guided tour by James McCormick which will explore the world-renowned Pre-Raphaelite collection at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Tickets are £2.00 per person - please purchase your ticket from the Vestibule reception desk and meet your guide in the Round Room at 2.30pm.
Type: Tours
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
11th January 2012 - 11th January 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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Guided Tour 1pm: 'Reading Pictures and Interpreting Images'
Location: Birmingham Museum
12th January 2012 - 12th January 2012
This tour looks at both old and new art, focusing on the viewer: how do we see, interpret and understand art. Meet your guide, Kaija Kaitavuori, in the Round Room at 1pm. Tickets are £2.00 and can be purchased from the Vestibule reception desk.
Type: Tours
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Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration
Location: Birmingham Museum
13th January 2012 - 25th March 2012
Ten of the Royal Collection's finest drawings by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. Touring exhibition to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen.
Type: Exhibitions
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Guided Tour 2.30pm: 'Leonardo and Other Treasures'
Location: Birmingham Museum
14th January 2012 - 14th January 2012
To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen, ten of the Royal Collection's finest drawings by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci will travel to five museums and galleries across the United Kingdom. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is the first UK venue to show this exhibition. Join Hugh Heaven to look at these beautiful pieces alongside treasures within our own collection to learn more about Leonardo and the Renaissance period. Meet your guide in the Round Room at 2.30pm. Tickets are £2.00 and can be purchased from the Vestibule reception desk.
Type: Tours
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
18th January 2012 - 18th January 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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Spotlight
Location: Birmingham Museum
18th January 2012 - 18th January 2012
Put your own object under the spotlight - bring it to the museum for our experts to tell you all about it.
Type: Activities
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Guided Tour 1pm: 'The Art of the Victorians'
Location: Birmingham Museum
19th January 2012 - 19th January 2012
BMAG's collection is rich with Victorian art, a period which has been of great fascination to many. Join Christine Moosavi to explore and marvel at this superb collection. Meet your guide, Christine Moosavi, in the Round Room at 1pm. Tickets are £2.00 and can be purchased from the Vestibule reception desk.
Type: Tours
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Guided Tour 2.30pm: 'Luminaries of the Arts in Birmingham' with Ann Maguire
Location: Birmingham Museum
21st January 2012 - 21st January 2012
A tour which looks at a golden period at Birmingham School of Art at Margaret Street, just across the road from BMAG. We will explore work from those under the tutelage of Mr Taylor, to include the Gaskins, Southall, Metyard, and others as well as discussing the Ruskin Pottery School. Tickets are £2.00 and can be purchased from the Vestibule reception desk. Meet your guide in the Round Room at 2.30pm.
Type: Tours
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Guided Tour: Lost in Lace with curator Lesley Millar MBE
Location: Birmingham Museum
21st January 2012 - 21st January 2012
Curator led tour of the Lost in Lace exhibition with Lesley Millar MBE, Professor of Textile Culture at the University for the Creative Arts. 12pm. £2.
Type: Tours
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Guided Tour 2.30pm: 'Leonardo and Other Treasures'
Location: Birmingham Museum
22nd January 2012 - 22nd January 2012
To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen, ten of the Royal Collection's finest drawings by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci will travel to five museums and galleries across the United Kingdom. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is the first UK venue to show this exhibition. Join Hugh Heaven to look at these beautiful pieces alongside treasures within our own collection to learn more about Leonardo and the Renaissance period. Meet your guide in the Round Room at 2.30pm. Tickets are £2.00 and can be purchased from the Vestibule reception desk.
Type: Tours
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
25th January 2012 - 25th January 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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Guided Tour 1pm: 'The Arts and Crafts Movement' with Karen Howell
Location: Birmingham Museum
26th January 2012 - 26th January 2012
Inspired by William Morris' revival of skilled craftsmanship and design in the latter part of the 19th century, the influence of this movement spread throughout Europe and North America. Join Karen Howell to learn about the Arts and Crafts Movement from Birmingham's abundant collection. Tickets are £2.00 and can be purchased from the Vestibule reception desk. Meet your guide, Karen Howell, in the Round Room at 1pm.
Type: Tours
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Guided Tour 2.30pm: 'The Staffordshire Hoard' with Michelle McCormick
Location: Birmingham Museum
28th January 2012 - 28th January 2012
See and learn more about the artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard on display in Gallery 12. You can also take a closer look at Hoard objects on interactives and try handling a Saxon sword! Meet your guide Michelle McCormick in the Round Room at 2.30pm. Tickets are £2.00 and can be purchased from the Vestibule reception desk.
Type: Tours
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Guided Tour 2.30pm: 'Tall Tales and Tittle Tattle' with James McCormick
Location: Birmingham Museum
29th January 2012 - 29th January 2012
This is a light hearted tour of paintings and sculptures. Nothing too naughty but plenty of gossip and a few scandals thrown in for good measure! To include: Epstein's Lucifer, Egg's 'Travelling Companions', Etty's 'Pandora crowned by the seasons', Gormley's 'Iron Man', Rosetti's Beata Beatrix', Wallis' 'The Death of Chatterton', Millais' 'The Blind Girl', Sanys' 'Medea', Ochtervelt's 'The Music Lesson', Modigliani's 'Madame Z'. Meet your guide James McCormick in the Round Room at 2.30pm. Tickets are £2.00 and can be purchased from the Vestibule reception desk.
Type: Tours
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Origins of Middle Earth Walk
Location: Sarehole Mill
1st February 2012 - 1st February 2012
Follow in the footsteps of Tolkien with a walk around Sarehole Mill and the surrounding area. 11am. Finishing with a warming drink. Tickets £5 phone 0121 777 6612 to prebook
Type: Tours
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
1st February 2012 - 1st February 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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Winter guided tour at Soho House
Location: Soho House
2nd February 2012 - 2nd February 2012
Special out of season tour. The tour includes tea/coffee and biscuits served in the Housekeepers Room. Charge: £6.00 per person. 11am - 12.30pm
Type: Tours
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Lost in Lace Conference
Location: Birmingham Museum
3rd February 2012 - 3rd February 2012
This one-day conference will draw on the themes explored in the Lost in Lace exhibition.
Type: Activities
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Free lunchtime classical guitar concert
Location: Birmingham Museum
3rd February 2012 - 3rd February 2012
1.10 - 1.50pm Free - no need to book Leo Turner is back by popular demand on the first Friday of the month for a free lunchtime classical guitar concert in the Round Room.
Type: Performances
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
8th February 2012 - 8th February 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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Celebrating 200 years of Charles Dickens
Location: Birmingham Museum
12th February 2012 - 12th February 2012
Author Lucinda Hawksley talks about her new book, written to celebrate the bicentenary of her great great great grandfather Charles Dickens. 2pm in the Waterhall. Tickets are £6 per head and £4 for Art Fund members
Type: Talks
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
15th February 2012 - 15th February 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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Winter guided tour at Soho House
Location: Soho House
16th February 2012 - 16th February 2012
Special out of season tour! Special out of season tour. The tour includes tea/coffee and biscuits served in the Housekeepers Room. Charge: £6.00 per person. 11am - 12.30pm
Type: Tours
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
22nd February 2012 - 22nd February 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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Leonardo da Vinci. A 'second nature in the world'
Location: Birmingham Museum
26th February 2012 - 26th February 2012
A talk by Martin Kemp FBA, Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Trinity College, University of Oxford. Sunday 26th February at 2pm in the Waterhall. Tickets are £6 per person and £4 for Art Fund members
Type: Talks
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Origins of Middle Earth Walk
Location: Sarehole Mill
29th February 2012 - 29th February 2012
Follow in the footsteps of Tolkien with a walk around Sarehole Mill and the surrounding area. Start at 11am. Tickets £5 to include a warming drink.
Type: Tours
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
29th February 2012 - 29th February 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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Winter guided tour at Soho House
Location: Soho House
1st March 2012 - 1st March 2012
Special out of season tour! Special out of season tour. The tour includes tea/coffee and biscuits served in the Housekeepers Room. Charge: £6.00 per person. 11am - 12.30pm
Type: Tours
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Free lunchtime classical guitar concert
Location: Birmingham Museum
2nd March 2012 - 2nd March 2012
1.10 - 1.50pm Free - no need to book Leo Turner is back by popular demand on the first Friday of the month for a free lunchtime classical guitar concert in the Round Room.
Type: Performances
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
7th March 2012 - 7th March 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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Exploring Leonardo: Study Day
Location: Birmingham Museum
10th March 2012 - 10th March 2012
A Study Day to accompany the exhibition, 'Ten Drawings By Leonardo da Vinci: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration'. An opportunity to learn more about the wider context of Leonardo's drawings from four leading specialists, and a panel discussion. Waterhall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Type: Talks
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
14th March 2012 - 14th March 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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Winter guided tour at Soho House
Location: Soho House
15th March 2012 - 15th March 2012
Special out of season tour! The tour includes tea/coffee and biscuits served in the Housekeepers Room! Charge: £6.00 per person. 11am - 12.30pm.
Type: Tours
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Ceramics Study Day
Location: Museum Collections Centre
16th March 2012 - 16th March 2012
This informal study day for adults will focus on looking at many different types and styles of pottery from all over the world and of all periods from 4500 BC to modern craft pottery. You will get a chance to handle some examples, to see others at close quarters and to take in the full range of our collection. You will be able to spend time in Store 2 where there are 12.000 pots. The ticket price of £35 per person includes lunch and all refreshments.
Type: Talks
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
21st March 2012 - 21st March 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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Children's Lives
Location: Birmingham Museum
24th March 2012 - 10th June 2012
Children's Lives examines the lives of children from the 18th century to the present day and is the first major exhibition on childhood to be held in Birmingham. Admission charges: Adult £4, Concession £3, Children aged 5-16 £2, Family £10, Unwaged £2
Type: Exhibitions
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Origins of Middle Earth Walk
Location: Sarehole Mill
28th March 2012 - 28th March 2012
A walk around Sarehole to follow in the footsteps of Tolkien. Tickets £5 to include a hot drink. Starts at 11am 0121 777 6612 to prebook.
Type: Talks
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Winter Guided Tour
Location: Aston Hall
28th March 2012 - 28th March 2012
Guided tour of Aston Hall during our closed season, with refreshments.
Type: Tours
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