West Midlands Arts & Crafts

Barber Institute of Fine Arts

The Institute was designed by Robert Atkinson (1883-1952), one of Britain’s leading architects of the 1920s and ’30s. When it opened The Times described the building as ’the purest example of his work’ and it continues to be regarded as one of his greatest achievements. The building is laid out around the central music auditorium, surrounded by corridors. On the Ground floor these form offices, lectures halls and libraries for the Departments of Music and History of Art. The galleries occupy the same space on the first floor, approached by a magnificent marble staircase directly opposite the entrance

University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TS   Tel: 0121 414 7333

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Founded in 1885, the collections cover fine art and applied arts, archaeology and ethnography, local and industrial history. The Fine and Applied Art Collections include paintings and drawings, British Watercolours and Arts and Crafts. The Museum and Art Gallery has an ever changing programme of temporary exhibitions and its permanent collection includes the famous Pre-Raphaelites. Major shows are housed in the restored Gas Hall. Entrance to the Museum and Art Gallery is free, and visitors are welcome to drop in and take a look around at their leisure.

Chamberlain Square  Birmingham  B3 3DH  Tel:  0121 303 2834   Email

Ikon Gallery

The Gallery features temporary exhibitions over two floors totalling 450 square metres . A variety of media are represented, including sound, film, mixed media, photography, painting, sculpture and installation.

1 Oozells Square Birndley place Birmingham B1 2HS Tel: 0121 248 0708  Email

The New Art Gallery alsall

The New Art Gallery Walsall opened on 16th February 2000 in the heart of Walsall town centre. A unique civic building for Walsall, the gallery is also a rare example of a brand-new building for the millennial arts and has been hailed as one of the most exciting new art galleries to be built in the UK in the last 20 years.

Gallery Square, Walsall, WS2 8LG  01922 654400   Email