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Inside Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in 2025 - must-visit attraction
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08/05/2025
Toby Watley, Director of Collections and Estates, of the Birmingham Museums Trust speaks to us about the exciting developments at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2025 - plus walk through tour of the major attraction
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Hello, I'm Toby Whatley, Director of Collections and Estates for Birmingham Museums Trust.
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I'm standing in our Birmingham History Galleries here at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
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We've just reopened them. They've been closed since COVID back in 2020, so we're delighted to get them reopened again.
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The original project cost about £8.9 million, so a massive refurbishment of this entire top floor.
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And they originally opened back in 2012, and we developed them with the people of Birmingham,
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really to tell the story of the city back from its origins in medieval days, right the way up to the city we know today,
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and how it's changed in terms of its population, the industries it now supports,
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and the different stories that are being told across the city.
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So this is a great place to come. There's about 900 objects on display, all totally unique,
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10 new stories about this city and the people that have lived in here over really the last 900 years.
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Of course, no one thought that it would detect anything at all.
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...in 30 centuries. Four to six weeks each year must be detected for sickness and darkness of trade
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on the government of the government of the government.
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The rights should quantify the benefits of the sickness.
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...in 30.30 years of the sicknesses and depression ...
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...and so that they should actually be detected.
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...and so that they should be detected with many people.
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...and so that they should not be detected with them.
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...and so that they should be detected with the結果.
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So the next takes place for that, and then...
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