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File:Birmingham-gallery-Mar18-8.jpg|A room of the museum, showing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_Bethlehem_(painting) The Start of Bethlehem], the largest watercolour of the 19th century. | File:Birmingham-gallery-Mar18-8.jpg|A room of the museum, showing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_Bethlehem_(painting) The Start of Bethlehem], the largest watercolour of the 19th century. | ||
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+ | * Aston Hall — one of the final Jacobean houses; book for food. | ||
+ | * Museum and Art Gallery {{done|}} | ||
+ | * Gas Street Basin {{done|}} — the centre of England’s canal system. | ||
+ | * Birmingham Botanical Gardens. | ||
+ | * St Philip’s Cathedral — one of the few English baroque style churches in addition to being one of the countries smallest cathedrals. Look up to the ceiling and you will discover 2000 soul boats hanging. | ||
+ | * Symphony hall — one of England’s finest concert halls with world-class acoustics in the stunning architecturally beautiful auditorium. | ||
+ | * Winterbourne House. | ||
+ | * Great Western Arcade. | ||
+ | * Shakespeare Express — to visit [[Stratford upon Avon]]. | ||
+ | * Sheldon Country Park. | ||
== Visits == | == Visits == |
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Birmingham is the largest and most populous British city outside London, with population well over a million. It is our neighbour from Wolverhampton and we use its airport quite a lot.
Birmingham's museum has some major pieces from leading artists, including Rubens, Turner, Picasso, Degas, Pissaro, Renoir, Botticelli, Canaletto and Murillo.
A favourite piece from this museum is The Archangel Lucifer from Epstein, a Bronze sculpture whose face is modelled after a (not-pretty) female and the body is that of a (not-pretty) male. It also hosts a good collection of works from the pre-Raphaelites.
I visited the site on 5 March (2018).
The ass of the devil in the round gallery.
How the Llyn Idwal looked to a local artist (Samuel Lines).
Detail from another favourite of the museum: The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple, by the pre-Raphaelite William Hunt.
A room of the museum, showing The Start of Bethlehem, the largest watercolour of the 19th century.
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