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Museums and Galleries Walking Tour in Birmingham
Guide Location: England » Birmingham
Guide Type: Self-guided city tour
# of Attractions: 7
Tour Duration: 2 hour(s)
Transportation Mode: by foot
Travel Distance: 5.4 km
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Author: VictoriaP
Britain's most attractive and beautiful museums and galleries are to be seen in this city. Whether you like to learn about the city's history, its science or maybe visit exhibitions with the possibility of buying something you enjoy, it is all possible in Birmingham's rich heritage and top-class attractions. Birmingham will offer you an incredible walking tour of museums and galleries of international importance.
Tour Stops and Attractions
Thinktank Museum
1) Thinktank Museum
Thinktank is a science museum in Birmingham, England. Opened in 2001, it has some exhibits from the now-closed Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Science Museum. It is part of the Millennium Point complex. Thinktank has four floors of over 200 hands on exhibits and artifacts. Each floor has a theme, in general going from the past, in Thinkback (Level 0), through Thinkhere (Level 1) and Thinknow (Level 2), to the future, in the Thinkahead gallery (Level 3).
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Art Lounge
2) Art Lounge
The Artlounge is a commercial art gallery located in The Mailbox in Birmingham, England. The gallery was founded by Veejay Lingiah in 2001 with the intention of "trying to change the way people view and buy art". The gallery is deliberately situated in a shopping area on the basis that "art should share the profile and appeal of areas such as fashion and not be relegated to 'hard to find' side streets." Since 2006, the staff of the Artlounge have also curated the more exhibition-focused Three White Walls Gallery located nearby.
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Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
3) Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is an art gallery in Birmingham, England. Opened in 1885, it has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history. The Art Gallery is most noted for its 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 and Gainsborough.
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Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
4) Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is a learned society of artists and an art gallery based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England. The society has a permanent collection of over 400 works, including pieces from illustrious figures from its past such as David Cox and Edward Burne-Jones, and it also helps to promote artists in the Birmingham area that are exhibiting their work. Its members included some of the most significant figures in English art, and presidents during the period included artists of the stature of Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, John Everett Millais and Lord Leighton.
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St. Paul's Gallery
5) St. Paul's Gallery
St. Paul's Gallery is a commercial art gallery, the largest in the United Kingdom outside London. It is located in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England.
The gallery deals in two main fields: original album art, the world's largest collection of signed album cover fine art, including signed cover images from The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Queen, etc. and fine art (where its holdings include works from Picasso and DalĂ­ to Henry Moore Bridget Riley). In addition to its own collection, St Paul's Gallery hosts a programme of visiting exhibitions. It was conceived by Symon Bland and opened in February 2003 in former industrial premises near St. Paul's Square.
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Museum of the Jewellery Quarter
6) Museum of the Jewellery Quarter
The Museum of the Jewellery Quarter is a museum at Vyse Street in Hockley, Birmingham, England. It is a branch or community museum of the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery. For over 80 years, the family-run firm of Smith & Pepper produced jewellery from the factory that is now the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter. In 2008, it was named the third best free tourist attraction in Europe by TripAdvisor, behind the Pantheon in Rome and the National Gallery in London. The Museum has preserved the "time capsule" workshop, and also tells the story of the 200 year old Jewellery Quarter and the ancient craft skills still practised in the workshop that make this area the centre of the British jewellery industry.
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Soho House Museum
7) Soho House Museum
Soho House Matthew Boulton's home is now a museum (opened in 1995), celebrating his life, his partnership with James Watt and his membership to the Lunar Society. As a branch or community museum of the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, it is owned and run by Birmingham City Council and is open to the public without charge. It hosts exhibitions of local and community interest. In the years between Boulton's leaving and the house becoming a museum, it had several uses, more recently as a residential hostel for police officers.
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