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== Birmingham Museums Trust == | == Birmingham Museums Trust == | ||
− | Beside (BM&AG), Birmingham also hosts the largest independent museums trust in the [[United Kingdom]], to which we became members on {{thisday|31|August|2019}} when visiting [[Aston]]. | + | Beside (BM&AG), Birmingham also hosts the largest independent museums trust in the [[United Kingdom]], to which we became members on {{thisday|31|August|2019}} when visiting [[Aston]]. This includes the main museum (which entry is free anyway) as well as seven (plus one, to pre-book) attractions: |
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+ | <center><wz tip="Venues of the Birmingham Museums Trusts.">[[File:wl-birmingham-museums-trust.png|500px]]</wz></center> | ||
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+ | === Thinktank === | ||
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+ | This is the Science Museum of Birmingham. It hosts the Smethwick Engine, the oldest working steam engine in the world, installed in [[1779]] on the Birmingham-Wolverhampton canal to pump water back up a series of canal locks at [[Smethwick]]. | ||
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+ | * https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/thinktank | ||
+ | * [https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/thinktank/whats-on What's on]. | ||
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+ | === [[Aston]] Hall === | ||
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+ | === Blakesley Hall === | ||
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+ | === Museum of the Jewellery Quarter === | ||
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+ | === Sarehole Mill === | ||
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+ | === Soho House === | ||
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+ | == Weoley Castle === | ||
== Restaurants == | == Restaurants == |
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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 (BM&AG) is the main museum in the area, with 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.
Beside (BM&AG), Birmingham also hosts the largest independent museums trust in the United Kingdom, to which we became members on 31 August (2019) when visiting Aston. This includes the main museum (which entry is free anyway) as well as seven (plus one, to pre-book) attractions:
This is the Science Museum of Birmingham. It hosts the Smethwick Engine, the oldest working steam engine in the world, installed in 1779 on the Birmingham-Wolverhampton canal to pump water back up a series of canal locks at Smethwick.
Birmingham is a high place for top gastronomy, which we still have to explore.
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