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 125^th 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