Cabinet Member for Leisure, Sport and Culture Martin Mullaney urges readers to visit Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery’s acclaimed Birmingham Seen exhibition.
If you haven’t been along to the Birmingham Seen exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery’s Gas Hall, you don’t know what you’re missing.
http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=24&start=3
I have a great interest in local history and this is a brilliant exhibition that really helps you understand how Birmingham has developed over the last 190 years.
There’s so much to see, including a model of 1930s plans for Centenary Square and fascinating photographs of the slums that were demolished to make way for Corporation Street in 1890.
Admission to this outstanding exhibition is free, so it’s hardly surprising that visitor numbers are exceeding expectations. We’re attracting visitors from Birmingham and the wider West Midlands region and of course those visitors also get to enjoy the rest of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
This is of course a timely exhibition, given last week’s fantastic news that Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has secured Heritage Lottery Funding worth almost £5 million to develop Birmingham History Galleries.
The new galleries, telling the Birmingham story from 1500 up to 1945, will be up and running by the middle of 2012.
The attendance at the Birmingham Seen exhibition illustrates the fact that there’s a real appetite for local history here in Birmingham.
The Birmingham Seen exhibition is in the Gas Hall until January 3 and, let me assure you, it’s well worth a visit.
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Stef
The Birmingham Seen exhibition was only extended last week and the information was passed onto this office after the announcement.
Apologies for the mix-up.
Why does the http://www.bmag.org.uk website state that the Birmingham Seen Exhibition is open until 31st January 2010?
Very misleading.