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4 unusual facts about Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery


Ana Maria Pacheco

These are typically exhibited as installation pieces and include Man and his Sheep (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) and Dark Night of the Soul (1999), created during her residency at the National Gallery, London as a response to The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian by the Pollaiuolo brothers.

Birmingham Town Hall tram stop

The stop will allow passengers improved access to Victoria Square, the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Town Hall itself.

Cruxicheiros

The fossils were stored in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery until 2008 when they were transferred to the Warwickshire Museum Service; the transfer prompted closer study of the neglected fossils.

Sylvani Merilion

In 1961 her work appeared at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and in the Four Letter Art exhibition at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.


Maxwell Armfield

A detail from Armfield's painting Self-Portrait (1901; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery), was used as the cover illustration of the Oxford World's Classics 2006 edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray.


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