Opened in 1885, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BM&AG), in Birmingham, England, has a collection of inernational importance, including a vast amount of first- class work by the Pre_Raphaelite Brotherhood and the largest collection of works by Edward Burne-Jones in the world.
The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) is the largest British university art and design teaching and research centre outside London.
The main BIAD campus and library is located at Gosta Green, just north of Birmingham city centre, and about three-quarters of a mile from either Birmingham New Street railway station or the Custard Factory quarter.
There are also smaller centres at: Bournville (foundation awards and evening classes) in the suburbs south of the city centre; Margaret Street (Fine Art) in the city centre next to Birmingham Central Library and BirminghamMuseum and ArtGallery; and Vittoria Street (Jewellery) in the city's Jewellery Quarter.
Its latest catalogue, entitled World Art, stresses the multicultural richness of the museum's collections, from Japanese armour to stained glass; the place is lively and modern, with one of the nicest museum caffs you could hope to find.
His belief in the power for good of great art (and the evil of bad art) and his thoughts on cities, architecture and society pervaded Victorian culture, informing the austere idealism still tangible in 19th-century city artgalleries.
When BirminghamMuseum and ArtGallery commissioned Sir Edward Burne-Jones to create the largest watercolour in the world, The Star of Bethlehem, at the end of the 1880s, the taste for pre-Raphaelite art was securely and safely established across Britain.
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