Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

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name = Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

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website = http://www.bmag.org.uk

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BM&AG) (gbmapping|SP066869) 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.

Paintings

The Art Gallery is most noted for the 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, Gainsborough. [ [http://www.bmag.org.uk/index.php?type=element&maincat=1&subcat=1&subelement=15 BM&AG Fine Art] ]

"Dutch School:*Goyen, Jan van - 1 painting;:*Velde, Willem van de...the Younger - 1 painting;

"English School":*Constable, John - 1 painting;:*Cox, David - 11 paintings;:*Gainsborough, Thomas - 3 paintings;:*Hogarth, William - 2 painting;:*Landseer, Sir Edwin - 1 painting;:*Lely, Peter - 2 painting;:*Turner, J M W - 1 painting;

"Flemish School":*Christus, Petrus - 1 painting;:*Rubens, Peter Paul - 1 painting;

"French School":*Degas, Edgar - 1 painting;:*Dughet, Gaspard - 1 painting;:*Gellée, Claude - 2 painting;:*Pissarro, Camille - 1 painting;:*Renoir, Pierre Auguste - 1 painting;

"German School":*Zoffany, Johan - 1 painting;

"Italian School":*Batoni, Pompeo - 1 painting;:*Bellini, Giovanni - 1 painting;:*Botticelli, Sandro - 1 painting;:*Canaletto, (Giovanni Antonio Canal) - 1 painting;:*Crespi, Giuseppe - 1 painting;:*Dolci, Carlo - 1 painting; :*il Garofalo, Benvenuto Tisio - 1 painting;:*Gentileschi, Orazio - 1 painting;:*Guardi, Francesco - 1 painting;:*Guercino, (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) - 1 painting;:*Martini, Simone - 1 painting;:*Reni, Guido - 1 painting;:*Rosa, Salvator - 1 painting;:*Schiavone, Andrea - 1 painting;:*Strozzi, Bernardo - 1 painting;

"Spanish School":*Murillo, Bartolomé-Esteban - 1 painting.

Antiquities

The collection of antiquities includes coins from ancient times through to the Middle Ages, artefacts from Ancient India and Central Asia, Ancient Cyprus and Ancient Egypt. There is material from Classical Greece, The Roman Empire and Latin America. There is also mediaeval material.

Location

The Museum and Art Gallery occupies an extended part of the Council House built less than a decade after the original Council House (subsidised by the corporation's Gas Department to circumvent the "Public Libraries and Museums Act" which limited the use of public funds on the arts) and, via an elaborate archway (internally a corridor), much of the 1911-1919 Council House Extension block. The main entrance is located in Chamberlain Square below the clock tower known locally as, “Big Brum”. The Extension Block has entrances via the Gas Hall (Edmund Street) and Great Charles Street. Waterhall (the old gas department) has its own entrance on Edmund Street.

Entrance to the Museum and Art Gallery is free, but some major exhibitions in the Gas Hall incur an entrance fee.

BM&AG is managed by Birmingham City Council.

Community museums

BM&AG also has many branch museums (some closed in the Winter) in historic buildings:
*Aston Hall, in Aston, built 1618 - 1635
*Blakesley Hall, in Yardley, a Tudor house
*Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, Hockley (open all year)
*Sarehole Mill, in Hall Green, a water mill
*Soho House, in Handsworth, home of Matthew Boulton with exhibitions on the Lunar Society
*Weoley Castle (ruins), in Weoley CastleThe Museum of Science and Industry, on Newhall Street from 1951 - 1997, has now closed. Many exhibits were moved to an independent "museum and science attraction" with an admission fee in the Thinktank.

The Museums Collections Centre in Nechells has brought together 80 per cent of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery’s stored collections under one roof. The 1.5 hectare site, close to Duddeston Station, holds hundreds of thousands of objects. At the moment the Museums Collection Centre is only open to the public on open days or by appointment.

References

*"All About Victoria Square", Joe Holyoak, The Victorian Society Birmingham Group, ISBN 0-901657-14-X
*"By the Gains of Industry - Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 1885-1985", Stuart Davies, ISBN 0-7093-0131-6
*"Public Sculpture of Birmingham including Sutton Coldfield", George T. Noszlopy, edited Jeremy Beach, 1998, ISBN 0-85323-692-5
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External links

* [http://www.bmag.org.uk BM&AG website]
* [http://www.bmagic.org.uk BM&AG collection online]
* [http://www.thepinto.net Selection of BM&AG's Pinto Collection of Treen]
* [http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/bmag Birmingham City Council - BM&AG page]
* [http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm Revolutionary Players - BM&AG administrated website]
* [http://www.bmag.org.uk/index.php?type=element&maincat=1&subcat=1&subelement=34 Museum Collections Centre information]
* [http://www.vads.ac.uk/results.php?cmd=advsearch&words=Birmingham+Museum+and+Art+Gallery&field=vads_collection_title&oper=or&field2=all&mode=boolean&NIRP=1 Paintings] from the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on [http://www.vads.ac.uk VADS]