{"id":590971,"date":"2025-11-24T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590971\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:09:25","slug":"birminghams-historic-museum-is-celebrating-its-140th-birthday-with-a-special-series-of-events-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590971\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham\u2019s Historic Museum Is Celebrating Its 140th Birthday With A Special Series Of Events This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/shutterstock_1079252045-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"View of the Birmingham Museum &amp; Art Gallery\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit: trabantos, Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>    Save<\/p>\n<p><strong>Birmingham Museum &amp; Art Gallery<\/strong> was officially opened on<strong> Saturday, November 28, 1885<\/strong>, by the then Prince of Wales, and later King Edward VII. It\u2019s estimated that around 100 million people have visited the museum since then. To<strong> mark its 140th birthday<\/strong>, enjoy a series of special events over the weekend (November 28 to 30)<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can enjoy a birthday<strong> cake-cutting<\/strong> moment,<strong> live poetry<\/strong> from award-winning Brummie poet Bradley Taylor and a performance by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Trumpet Club on Friday, November 28. Then, as part of Museum Shop Sunday, enjoy a<strong> 15% off in its gift shops on Sunday, November 30<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, across the weekend, you can go behind-the-scenes into areas you don\u2019t usually see with <strong>\u2018hidden spaces\u2019 taster tours<\/strong>, as well as a trail of party hats concealed among the objects on show in the museum\u2019s galleries and<strong> \u2018my first museum\u2019 tours<\/strong> for young visitors under five and their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom its foundation in the 19th century, the museum has been woven into the fabric of Birmingham life,\u201d said Sara Wajid and Zak Mensah, co-chief executives of Birmingham Museums Trust. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to celebrate the many stories it holds \u2013 and even prouder to help write its next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> What else can I see? <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/711f9890-51b2-11f0-a67b-d304e70bcfdf.jpeg\" alt=\"Entrance to \u2018Working Class Hero\u2019, Ozzy Osbourne exhibition\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/>Credit: Aston Villa <\/p>\n<p>Current exhibitions at Birmingham Museum &amp; Art Gallery include<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/secretbirmingham.com\/this-world-first-ozzy-osbourne-exhibition-has-opened-at-birmingham-museum-and-its-completely-free-to-visit\/\" rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretbirmingham.com\/this-world-first-ozzy-osbourne-exhibition-has-opened-at-birmingham-museum-and-its-completely-free-to-visit\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_0\" data-category=\"click_internal\">Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero<\/a><\/strong>, which features accolades, mementoes and photos from the Black Sabbath frontman\u2019s illustrious career, while <strong>Watch Us Lead<\/strong>, by multi-disciplinary artist Christopher Samuel, highlights the<strong> disabled experience in Birmingham<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham Museum &amp; Art Gallery\u2019s <strong>Pre-Raphaelite collection<\/strong> is also back on display, while a new display, <strong>The Elephant in the Room<\/strong>, which explores how a<strong>rtefacts from around the world came to be part of Birmingham Museums\u2019 collections<\/strong>. The Grade II* listed building and tearooms have been gradually reopening since October last year after a refurbishment that started in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham Museum &amp; Art Gallery is open for free from Monday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: trabantos, Shutterstock Save Birmingham Museum &amp; Art Gallery was officially opened on Saturday, November 28, 1885, by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-590971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115605313460475125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}