Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

History of the museum

The museum opened in 1885 in a splendid building in Chamberlain Square, paid for with Victorian city money. Its Pre-Raphaelite collection grew because the city's own artists, including Edward Burne-Jones, born in Birmingham, were admired locally. In 2009 the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found, was discovered and brought here.

In our gallery from here (6)

The Blind GirlJohn Everett Millais · 1856 The Last of EnglandFord Madox Brown · 1853 The Long EngagementArthur Hughes · 1859 The Finding of the Saviour in the TempleWilliam Holman Hunt · 1860 MedeaFrederick Sandys · 1868 The Merciful KnightEdward Burne-Jones · 1863