Birmingham City Council events taking place at the city's museums, galleries and libraries this Autumn.
Museums
Taking time: craft and the Slow Movement
This exhibition shows how craftspeople, through the activity of making, reflect on ideas of time and sustainable living. Birmingham is the launch venue for this exhibition of international contemporary craft. A nationally touring Craftspace exhibition in partnership with Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.
17 October – 3 January 2010
Free
Waterhall gallery, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
0121 464 8887
www.bmag.org.uk
Birmingham Seen
This wide ranging exhibition explores the ways in which artists and photographers have portrayed the people and landscape of Birmingham since 1900. A feast of treasures drawn from the museum and Central Library collections make this one of the most ambitious shows ever devotes to the people and history of the great city.
31 October – 3 January 2010
Free
Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
303 1966
www.bmag.org.uk
Birmingham Philatelic
Opening this month, this exhibition is collaboration between Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery and the Birmingham Philatelic Society to celebrate the society’s 125th anniversary. The show will look at the history of the postal stamp and the art of collecting.
Until 9 January 2010
Gallery 16, Birmingham museum and Art Gallery
Free
0121 303 2834
www.bmag.org.uk
Edward Burne-Jones – Perseus Series
See the spectacular ‘Perseus Cycle’, on loan from the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, based on the heroic Greek legend of Perseus.
Until 4 October
Gallery 18, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Free
0121 303 2834
www.bmag.org.uk
200 years in the Making: Celebrating Boulton in Contemporary Style
3D designs and models by students from Sutton Coldfield and Matthew Boulton colleges.
Until 1 November
Soho House
Free
0121 554 9122
www.bmag.org.uk
Free family activities
Free family activities in the Museum.
1 – 4pm, every day of the school holidays and every weekend
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Free
0121 303 2834
www.bmag.org.uk
