The Shadow of Death (Fully Booked)
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomFree to attend, but please book by emailing Rosie.Barker@BirminghamMuseums.org.uk Birmingham Museums holds objects from across time and across the world that tell the story of death. Join us for a free tour taking in everything from Roman cremation chests to paintings of poisonings. You are welcome to join us after the tour for a Death […]
City of the Dead // Ben Waddington (SOLD OUT)
Meet: opposite Five Ways station, Islington Row Middleway B15 1QA The City of the Dead guided walk takes its name from the former Jewish cemetery at Five Ways: in Hebrew Beth Olom. If it doesn’t sound familiar, that’s perhaps because it is now an overgrown sliver of land between the railway and the canal, punctuated […]
CremaTOURium & Natural Burial Ground Tour
Redditch Crematorium Bordesley Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomOur Crema-tour-ium trip is back! Join us as we go behind the scenes at Redditch Crematorium and then on to the beautiful Westall Park Natural Burial Ground. This unique tour will challenge preconceptions of what is possible at a funeral and dispel common myths about cremation and burial. Hosted by A Natural Undertaking Light refreshments […]
The Art of Death tour
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomThis is SOLD OUT please explore our other events for the one that suits you. Birmingham Museums holds objects from across time and across the world that tell the story of death. Join them for a free tour taking in everything from Roman cremation chests to paintings of poisonings.
Tales of Acquisition tour
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomExplore objects and artworks left to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery by supporters in their wills, or purchased using a legacy. Some of the highlights of Birmingham’s important regional collection were acquired in this way, including the Stanley Sellers collection of studio pottery in recent years, numerous Pre-Raphaelite and Birmingham School pieces, and the significant […]
