West Midlands Museums

Aston Manor Road Transport Museum

Buses, coaches, vans and 2 tramcars in restored tram depot. Vehicle resoration area, memorabilia, displays and working tram layout

208-216 Witton Lane Witton  Birmingham  B6 6QE  Tel: 0121 322 2298

Bilston Craft Gallery & Museum creates a new and exciting gallery experience which includes a passenger lift, a display of the enamels collection and a new area dedicated to the under 5’s

Mount Pleasant, Bilston,  WV14 7LU Tel: 01902 552507

Black Country Living Museum

A friendly welcome awaits you at one of Britain's best open air museums. Discover a fascinating and different world where an old-fashioned village has been recreated by the canal as a living tribute to the skills and enterprise of the people of the Black Country.

Tipton Road  Dudley  DY1 4SQ    Tel: 0121 557 9643

Broadfield House Glass Museum

World famous collections of British glass from the 1700 to today. You are able to crafgtsmen at work and there are exhibitions and workshops throughout the year

Compton Drive, Kingswinford, DY6 9NS  Tel: 01384 812745

Coventry Transport Museum

The museum features historic cars and motorcycles, with period street scenes, a sights and sounds of the Coventry Blitz exhibition, Model World, a collection of Rally and Racing cars, a cycle display, motorcycle display and the World Land Speed Record Show

Millennium Place Coventry CV1 1PN Tel: 024 7683 2425   Email

Galton Valley Canal Heritage Centre

Visitors can travel back to the past when the Industrial Revolution changed the face of the area. Lying at the centre of the area's canal system the Valley has examples of the canal engineering work of Telford, Brindley and Smeaton, along with many examples of the industrial architecture of the period

Brasshouse Lane, Smethwick  B66 1BA   Tel: 0121 558 8195

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum offers a fascinating visit with international appeal. Enjoy the Godiva City exhibition, one thousand years of Coventry’s history, told through historical treasures, interactive games, archive film and objects to handle. Plus a wide range of changing exhibitions and displays

Jordan Well Coventry  CV1 5QP   Tel:  024 7683 2381  Email

The Museum of the Jewellery Quarter

Built around the preserved workshops and offices of Smith & Pepper, a Birmingham jewellery firm, the award-winning Museum of the Jewellery Quarter offers a fascinating insight into the city’s historic jewellery trade. Visitors can enjoy a guided tour around the perfectly preserved ’time capsule’ factory - little changed since the beginning of the century - and see a skilled jeweller at work. In addition to the factory tour, the Museum’s exhibition galleries tell the story of the Quarter and the jeweller’s craft which has been practised in this distinctive part of Birmingham for over 200 years. The museum brings the story right up to date by showcasing jewellery made by some of the city’s most exciting contemporary designers

75 - 79 Vyse Street Hockley Birmingham B18 6HA  Tel: 0121 554 3598   Email  

National Motorcycle Museum

The National Motorcycle Museum is recognised as the finest and largest motorcycle museum in the world. Our aim is to make it even better, and important and famous machines are forever being added to our collection.

It is a place where ’Legends Live On’ and it is a tribute to and a living record of this once-great British industry that dominated world markets for some sixty years. In a society that is quick to lose its appreciation of the inherent skills and industry of this nation, the Museum records for posterity the engineering achievements of the last centry. It is a place where an older generation can once again view with nostalgia the machines they rode in days gone by, and younger generations can study the development of the motorcycle from its earlier days to the golden years of the 1930s-60s, when British motorcycles ’ruled the world’.

The museum has a fine gift shop that houses a very extensive book department, together with souvenirs,. Posters, photographs and other memorabilia. A fully licensed self-service restaurant is available throughout opening hours, as well as extensive conference and banqueting suites offering state-of-the-art facilities

86 Henwood Lane, Solihull, B91 2TH Tel: 0121 704 2784   Email

Thinktank - Museum of Science and Discovery

There are 10 themed galleries at Thinktank spread over four floors  Thinktank is Birmingham’s museum and science attraction. It examines the past, investigates the present and explores what the future may bring.  Thinktank’s job is to help us all understand how science and technology shape our lives.

Millenium Point, Curzon Street,  Digbeth,  Birmingham B4 7XG  Tel:0121 202 2222   Email

Walsall Leather Museum 
 
At Walsall Leather Museum you'll gain a fascinating insight into the story of leatherworking and find out why Walsall's craftsmen and women are so proud of their skills and reputation. For over a hundred years.

Littleton Street West Walsall WS2 8EN  Tel: 01922 721153   Email

Walsall Museum

Walsall Museum’s mission today is to make known to as wide a public as possible the many histories of Walsall and its locality, its people and their roots worldwide, through collection, conservation, education, exhibition, interpretation and research. The museum holds over 11,000 objects, displayed at four museum sites: Walsall Museum, Birchills Canal Museum, Jerome K. Jerome Birthplace Museum and Willenhall Museum. The collections are a rich and varied resource for visitors to enjoy and learn from. They vary from social history artefacts and ephemera representing local people’s life and work, to the Hodson Shop clothing collection, impeccably preserved unsold shop stock of the 1920s to 1950s from a draper’s shop in Willenhall.

Central Library & Museum Lichfield Street Walsall WS1 1TR Tel:01922 – 653166   Email

Willenhall Lock Museum

The Lock Museum occupies the premises of a Victorian Locksmith’s house and workshops, typical of the many small businesses which once flourished in Willenhall. Step back into the past and soak up the atmosphere of the Victorian era. In gas-lit rooms, experience the everyday life of a locksmith’s family.

55 New Road, Willenhall,  Wolverhampton WV13 2DA  Tel:  01902 634542   Email

Coventry Toy Museum

Whitefriars GateMuch Park Street Coventry CV1 2LT Tel: 024 76 227560

 A collection of toys dating from 1740 to 1980 including trains, dolls, doll’s houses and games