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Birmingham Sights

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

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Good for: value for money, Historical information, Art appreciation

  • Address
    • Chamberlain Sq
  • Website
  • Phone
    • 0121 303 2834
  • Price
    • admission free
  • Hours
    • 10am-5pm Mon-Sat, 12.30-5pm Sun

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Lonely Planet review for Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

One of the best collections of Pre-Raphaelite works in the world. Highlights include a gallery of creations by Birmingham lad Edward Burne-Jones – look out for his massive triptych The Last Judgement, a grand piano smothered in gilt plasterwork, and a vast, goldpainted, Renaissance-themed wedding chest. Paintings include Ford Madox Brown’s The Last of England, where British migrants pass Dover-esque white cliffs to leave the country, and Henry Wallis’ Death of Chatterton, a diminutive oil featuring a doomed, pale poet sprawled in his attic bedroom. Then there’s an image seen on countless cards worldwide: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s iconic Proserpine, in which a soulful, auburn-haired heroine clutches the pomegranate that has condemned her forever to Hades. Run by the museum, www.preraphaelites.org is also a superb resource.

 

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    Surprisingly extensive and FREE

    mrkriss recommends this,

    The array of paintings is extensive and engrossing. There's a respectable diversity and pre-raphaelite paintings are my personal favourites. There is also a regular change of exhibits, such as the current display of the viking hoard of gold found when the Bull-Ring was being re-built.

    Good for: value for money, Historical information, Art appreciation

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