Art Galleries and Museums in Birmingham...

Some of the finest art collections in the world are to be found in Birmingham. The City Museum and Art Gallery, the Gas Hall and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts provide spectacular settings for classical and modern works, while the IKON Gallery on Brindley Place hosts challenging exhibitions and serves great coffee.

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is a spectacular Victorian landmark building and has the world's largest Pre-Raphaelite collection, master works by French, Dutch and Italian Baroque artists as well as contemporary paintings, silver, ceramics, archaeology and social history.

Enjoy the tranquillity of Sarehole Mill, one of only two surviving watermills in Birmingham. Explore the 200-year-old mill and courtyard and the nearby Shire Country Park.

View the 700-year-old ruins of Weoley Castle, the remains of a medieval moated house, and learn about the lives of the wealthy aristocrats who once lived here.

The historic Birmingham Jewellery Quarter , home to manufacturing jewellers, silver and goldsmiths since 1460, is an amazing place full of high quality bargains often direct from their skilled manufacturers. Located just north west of the city centre the Quarter has a signposted walking historic shopping trail.

Birmingham also has a wealth of museums. Cadbury World celebrates Birmingham’s chocolate industry whilst the Millennium Point and Thinktank (across the road from the campus) chronicles Birmingham’s industrial past and future and has lots of interesting buttons to press!)