ANNUAL REPORT 2018 / 19 Museums Trust is an independent educational charity REFLECTING formed in 2012.

It cares for Birmingham’s BIRMINGHAM internationally important collection of 1 million objects TO THE WORLD, which are stored and displayed in nine unique venues including six Listed Buildings and one AND THE WORLD Scheduled Ancient Monument. is TO BIRMINGHAM a company limited by guarantee.

Registered Charity Number: 1147014 CONTENTS

AUDIENCES COLLECTIONS 9 Children and young people 26 Acquisitions Case study School in residence Case study Museums Association Award: Collecting Birmingham 10 Community engagement Case study Votes for women 27 Loans Case study Victorian radicals – Oklahoma 11 Volunteers Case study Within and without: 28 Collections Care body image & the self Case study Conservation of bird collection 12 Marketing and audience development 29 Curatorial Case study Staffordshire Hoard Case study Completion of Arts Council helmet reconstruction Collection National Partners Programme 13 Digital audiences Case study Creative Commons CC0 MAKING IT HAPPEN 15 Supporters 30 Workforce development Case study Leadership development programme VENUES 31 Development 17  Hall Case study Coutts sponsorship of Case study Walls have ears: Leonardo da Vinci: a life in drawing 400 years of change 18  TRADING Case study Family room 32 Retail 19 Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Case study shop Case study Dippy on Tour: A Natural History Adventure 33 Food and beverage Case study Sunday lunch 20 Museum Collection Centre Case study Heritage open day 34 Conference and banqueting Case study Dine with Dippy 21 Museum of the Jewellery Quarter Case study Jeweller in residence FINANCES 22  35 Finances Case study Crowdfunding appeal 23  TRUSTEES & MANAGEMENT Case study Boulton goes to Bollywood 36 Board of Trustees and 24 Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum Senior Management Team Case study Smethwick Engine restoration EXHIBITIONS, TALKS & LECTURES 25  Case study Bio Blitz 36 Exhibitions and display changes 37 Talks and lectures 38 Refereed publications CHAIR’S FOREWORD

What are museums for? In an ever changing world the place of museums in our society is a perennial question for the museum community, and this includes Birmingham Museums Trust.

One way to address this question is to share our achievements in the present and our ambitions for the future. This year’s Annual Report tells in numbers, words and images our successes: visitor numbers over 1 million, nearly a 100,000 school visits, a quarter of a million visitors to the Dippy on Tour exhibition, and a successful international touring exhibition to eight venues in the US. It would be easy to keep adding to this headline list of success, but there are others which are equally important but have a lower profile.

Two partnership examples are worth celebrating. First, Birmingham Museums has worked with to negotiate long-term leases for our different sites, and second, in the context of climate change, our staff have worked with the Collections Trust to map indoor pests and provide an integrated pest management website for memory institutions to use. The former allows us to plan effectively for our future and the latter to conserve our collections. All of these activities are dependent on the skills and commitment of our staff and on behalf of Birmingham Museums I wish to thank them.

Finally, as this will be my last year as Chair I wish to formally thank all of you who have supported me in this role.

Professor Ian Grosvenor Chair, Birmingham Museums Trust DIRECTOR’S INTRODUCTION

One of the year’s highlights was winning the Museums Association Museums Change Lives award for the HLF-funded Collecting Birmingham project.

We wanted to address the lack of objects in the collection that told stories of working-class life in general – growing up, living and working in Birmingham – and post-WWII immigration in particular. The project was very successful, both in terms of collecting objects and of creating lasting relationships with a wide range of communities. The award reflects a growing recognition in the sector of Birmingham Museums’ expertise in community engagement across this young, super-diverse city. On a different note, we won applause in the pages of the Art Newspaper for our decision to make low- to medium-resolution images freely available. Academics and researchers have been quick to take up this service. The long- term result will be that Birmingham’s great collection becomes better known nationally and internationally. This was the year of Dippy on Tour and Leonardo da Vinci, two famous but very different individuals who helped us to exceed visitor forecasts. And across all our sites the less famous but equally important individuals who make up our Board, staff, volunteers and supporters made their own equally valuable contributions to the continuing success of Birmingham Museums.

Dr Ellen McAdam Director, Birmingham Museums Trust

04 / 05 OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

VISITOR ATTENDANCE

VISITS TO OUR VENUES, 44% FIRST-TIME 1,19 0, 8 93 VISITORS

DIVERSITY VOLUNTEERS

6% visitors consider themselves 25% disabled visitors from socio-economic 1,126 groups C2DE volunteers gave 27,436 hours 17% of support of visitors LOANS FOR EXHIBITIONS from BAME backgrounds

DIGITAL 525,649 1,393,905 people saw 277 loans visits to Birmingham Museums INFORMAL LEARNING Trust’s website

SOCIAL 207,877 214,051 social media followers visitors participated in informal learning SCHOOL BOOKINGS 121,329 School children from 2,322 schools took part in our education programmes

AWARDS

Museums Change Lives Awards 97,155 Best MCL Project 2018, for Collecting Birmingham, Museums Association pupils made on-site school visits Family Favourite Award: Best event at an attraction, Midlands for Dippy on Tour: A Natural History Adventure, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Day out with the kids, 2018

24,174 Best Birmingham Visitor Attraction, pupils were engaged for Birmingham Museum & Art through outreach and Gallery, Birmingham What’s On Museum in a Box kits Readers’ Awards 2019

Best Exhibition in the Midlands, for Dippy on Tour: A Natural History Adventure, for Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham What’s On 100 Readers’ Awards 2019 children and young people participated in accredited Best Birmingham Art Gallery/ Arts Award programmes Exhibition Venue, for Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham What’s On Readers’ Awards 2019

VISITOR SATISFACTION VAQAS standard achieved for 7 museum venues

06 / 07 AUDIENCES CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE SCHOOL IN RESIDENCE

Our portfolio of museums • We collaborated with In 2018/19, Chandos Primary School (Highgate, continues to be a source of children and families in Birmingham) was our flagship school in residence. inspiration and high quality the design of MiniBrum at As part of our Arts Council Collection exhibition heritage learning for children Thinktank, a new gallery programme, museum engagement staff worked and young people. We host enabling under 8s to explore with 600 children, families and teachers to explore the highest number of science and industry in a contemporary art collections and their own creativity. school visits of any cultural playful and energetic way. Through working with Birmingham Museums Trust, organisation in Birmingham. • Birmingham Museums Trust children developed new confidence in responding to Highlights include: achieved its first year as an exhibitions and sharing their experiences with others. • 97,155 children and young Artsmark Partner, enabling The project culminated in an exciting school and people from schools or four Birmingham primary community collaboration which secured a long-term alternative educational schools to achieve Artsmark Arts Council Collection loan from artist Michael Ayrton. establishments engaged status as part of school The work will be on display in the school for the next with our museums through improvement programmes. four years and the loan has helped support school leadership in their journey to become an Artsmark facilitated activities and • As a legacy of Dippy on Tour: guided resource learning A Natural History Adventure, Award school. across all key stages. Birmingham Museums Trust “Working with the museum and its collections was • 214,051 children, young became part of the Natural History Museum’s Real World positively challenging, inspirational and overall a people and families took wonderful experience. Our journey started with Science network, helping us part in informal learning a spark of an idea and grew into an amazing project to create new biodiversity through outreach, holiday which drew together the whole of our school community. activities and our Planetarium and natural history learning programme. programmes to support local Our teachers had CPD [Continuing Professional schools and communities. Development] and our Parent Link worker learned how • 85 teachers accessed to talk about art and communicate its importance to our continuing professional • 100 children and young parents. The learning curve has been steep, creating a new development activities people received an Arts blueprint for our parent workshops and engagement and relating to our exhibitions Award, awarded by Trinity forging a sustainable museum link for our school.” via our work with the College London in association local Secondary Visual Art with Arts Council . LEZLI HOWARTH Network. ARTS LEAD CHANDOS PRIMARY SCHOOL

08 / 09 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

• This year our community Museum & Art Gallery for to long-term partnerships who are underserved by engagement programme local charities including with local charities New conventional arts and culture. engaged around 5,000 Refugee Action, Shelter and Neighbours and Celebrating The exhibition was seen by people in 151 events or Spurgeons Young Carers. Sanctuary. around 300,000 visitors. projects. • Community-focused • Now entering its tenth year, • We continued to be involved • The Faith in Birmingham exhibitions included Asian Café Scientifique, a monthly with the Beatfreeks-led gallery was used by groups youth culture: exploring the programme of adult talks, project Don’t Settle. We have for events such as Buddha heritage & history of young attracted 500 attendees to supported the recruitment Day and, for the first time, British Asians in Birmingham, hear speakers drawn from and setup of the project we hosted an event led by Fighting for our heritage and all of our local universities. and are looking forward to the Bahá’i community which The legacy of industrial textiles welcoming young people to • Inspire 2018, our youth was attended by over 100 enterprise (LITE) project. reinterpret Soho House. art competition, attracted people. • The exhibition Within and a record 401 entries • Our wellbeing programme without: body image and from children and young was popular, in particular the self tested new ideas people across the region, the Creative Carers for storylines and created culminating in a celebration sessions. This year we a powerful and moving event with over 200 increased the number of exhibition that explored attendees. 68% of entries sessions to provide as many complex topics such as came from children and opportunities as possible. colourism. young people living in areas with high levels of • We provided bespoke • Our International Women’s deprivation, demonstrating facilitated visits to both Day and Refugee Week that the competition is Thinktank and Birmingham events were successful due reaching communities

VOTES FOR WOMEN Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery contributed • Welcoming the Suffrage Flag on its national tour, to the celebration of the centenary of the • Edwardian Tearooms late: a story of suffrage – an immersive acting experience, Representation of the People Act through a • Hosting all four female Birmingham and Solihull diverse range of events attended by around MPs in a discussion about women in Parliament, 600 people. These events included: • Launching a Blue Plaque commemorating suffragette Bertha Ryland. “I really valued this exhibition. Despite being 23 and quite self- assured in some ways, I have terrible body image issues and I am only just coming to terms with my sexuality. To come across this exhibit during my travels was very affirming. Thank you.”

VISITOR WITHIN AND WITHOUT: BODY IMAGE AND THE SELF

WITHIN AND WITHOUT: Our second exhibition in Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery’s Story LAB gallery – a space BODY IMAGE AND inviting visitors to help shape the future of the museum – involved eight dedicated THE SELF volunteers who formed our ColLABorator steering group. They shaped the concept and themes of the exhibition and selected key objects for display. The group were diverse in terms of background and experience which created an exhibition dedicated to diverse representation that was very well received by visitors.

VOLUNTEERS

• 1,126 volunteers gave us • Over the course of Dippy • Our Corporate Volunteering “I enjoy the 27,436 hours of their time. on Tour: A Natural History and Meet the Expert Adventure, 65 volunteers programmes saw employees satisfaction of • Volunteers welcomed visitors, supported us giving over from companies across the working in such a supported conservation work, 1,900 hours of their time. volunteering assisted with family activities, peaceful place; an Many of these volunteers with us for a day. worked with our curatorial have now joined us in other oasis. Sometimes, team, gardened, milled, helped • We offered corporate volunteering roles. with documentation and volunteer activities to particularly on worked on several individual • We offered two accredited employees of AIG, Amey, cold mornings, projects. training courses to the Barclays, Beazley, Environment volunteer team this year, Agency, Highways England, I don’t feel like • During our three-year Arts and one in-house training Lex Autolease, Murphy Group, turning up, but Council Collection National opportunity each month. National Express, National Partners Programme, 42 I do, and I always Trust, NatWest, Network Rail, individuals supported us • Our Volunteer of the Year RBS, Selfridges, Turner & come away feeling dedicating over 2,800 hours Award was presented during Townsend and Virgin Media. of their time. Many of these National Volunteers Week and glad that volunteers have since gone Student Volunteer of the Year I made the effort.” on to take up employment, during Student Volunteering undertake further study and/ Week. We also awarded our VOLUNTEER or develop as practitioners three and ten-year service BLAKESLEY HALL in a number of organisations awards in December 2018. nationwide.

10 / 11 MARKETING AND AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT

• Birmingham Museums • There was an increase in • There was an increase in Trust attracted 1,190,893 family visitors enjoying our national media coverage for visitors in 2018/19, up 28% venues. 53% of visitors to all exhibitions at Birmingham on the previous year. There venues came with children. Museum & Art Gallery. Too were particularly significant cute! sweet is about to get • A high-profile marketing and increases at Birmingham sinister, Women power protest PR campaign helped Dippy Museum & Art Gallery and Leonardo da Vinci: a life in on Tour: A Natural History (855,508 visitors, up 45% drawing were featured in Adventure become the most from 2017/18), and at Aston titles including The Guardian, popular temporary exhibition Hall (30,962 visitors, up 16% Independent, The Times and ever at Birmingham Museum from 2017/18). Stylist. Effective marketing & Art Gallery, attracting over and PR campaigns contributed • C2DE visitors increased to a quarter of a million visitors. to these exhibitions far 25% overall. • Our press office achieved exceeding visitor targets. • The trend for increasingly £3,835,167 of media coverage • The appointment of a new young visitors has continued regionally and nationally, Customer Relationship from last year – 60% of up from £3,159,644 the Management (CRM) marketing adult visitors to Birmingham previous year. officer enabled us to deliver Museums Trust venues were more effective and frequent aged 44 and under. email marketing campaigns.

STAFFORDSHIRE Birmingham Museums Trust led on the as The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, i news, HOARD HELMET PR announcement for the launch of the Express & Star, Birmingham Mail and BBC RECONSTRUCTION Staffordshire Hoard helmet reconstruction, Midlands Today along with main features in on display at Birmingham Museum & Art British Archaeology and Current Archaeology. Gallery. This resulted in widespread national We also worked with historian and broadcaster and regional coverage, with over 50 articles Dr Janina Ramirez for a livestream video, achieving £252,890 equivalent in advertising which has reached over 57,000 views, and value. Coverage was secured in titles such a podcast recording. MUSEUM STAFF 1888 ONE OF THOUSANDS OF IMAGES NOW FREELY AVAILABLE

CREATIVE In 2018/19, we made images of our out-of- of whom used the images in the first year. COMMONS CC0 copyright collections freely available under a It has contributed to raising Birmingham Creative Commons CC0 waiver, meeting the Museum Trust’s profile nationally and legal requirements of the Re-use of Public internationally, and has aided the creation Sector Information Regulations 2015. Aligning of new partnerships such as the transatlantic with our charitable objectives, this initiative Pre-Raphaelites Online network, an AHRC- provides public access and free use of digital funded project uniting UK and USA collections. It has been particularly beneficial collections of Pre-Raphaelite work. for academics and researchers, around 100

DIGITAL AUDIENCES

• Visits to the Birmingham rolled out to all staff and possible digital uses of the Museums Trust website grew become public facing in collection, current limitations by 17% to 1,393,905 visits in 2019/20. of the data, the queries that the year. people would like to make, • Our digitisation programme and established the data • Social media followers captured 6,000 works on that was needed to facilitate increased to 207,877. paper in 2018/19, due to be these queries and build added to DAMS in 2019/20. • Social media reach for Dippy online content using the on Tour: A Natural History • We made a significant step collection. Adventure across Facebook, to improve digital access by • To meet the training needs Twitter and Instagram releasing digitised images of staff who use digital totalled 1,384,525 people. under an open licence, communication as part receiving positive coverage • Our digital asset of their roles, we held a by The Art Newspaper and management system (DAMS) workshop that focused Europeana Pro. was developed and trialled on photography, film and by several teams within • In February 2019, we held an social media skills. This was Birmingham Museums Trust. idea/prototype hack (digital attended by 16 staff. Launched with approximately lab) at BOMlab (Birmingham 10,000 images covering Open Media), working with collections, events and 18 young coders and data marketing, DAMS will be enthusiasts. It explored

12 / 13 ALL OUR SUPPORTERS PLAY A KEY ROLE IN THE WORK WE DO

MAJOR FUNDERS WE OWE A SPECIAL DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO Patrons of Birmingham Museums Trust / Friends of Birmingham Museums / City of Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Development Trust / Public Picture Gallery Fund / All the donors and supporters of our Annual Appeal and Sarehole Mill Crowdfunder

THANK YOU TO ALL FUNDERS AND SUPPORTERS OF BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS TRUST Anonymous donors / Art Fund / Arts Council Collection National Partners Fund / Arts Council England Designation Development Fund / Arts Council England/Victoria & Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund / Association of Science and Discovery Centres / Birmingham City University / / Birmingham Gems 2019 / British Museum / Coutts Bank / DCMS Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund / England’s Waterways / Garfield Weston Foundation / IMI plc / Inspiring Science Fund co-funded by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) / UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the / Jas Sansi Photography / John Feeney Charitable Trust / Mott MacDonald / Newcomen Society / Natural History Museum / Opus Restaurant / Paradise Birmingham / Renaissance Creative / Reuben Colley Fine Art / Signature Outdoor / Stavros Niarchos Foundation / Staying Cool / The 29th May 1961 Charity / The Clara E Burgess Charity / The Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust / The G J W Turner Trust / The Grimmitt Trust / The H B Allen Charitable Trust / The Kirby Laing Foundation / The Michael Marsh Charitable Trust / The Rowlands Charitable Trust / The Tolkien Society / The Wolfson Foundation / Turner & Townsend / / Westhill Endowment Fund

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL SUPPORTERS OF BIRMINGHAM HERITAGE WEEK 2018: Colmore Business District / Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce / Historic England / National Trust / University of Birmingham

AND A BIG THANK YOU TO THE PUBLIC AND OUR VISITORS FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATIONS

14 / 15 OUR VENUES WALLS HAVE EARS: HIGHLIGHTS 400 YEARS OF CHANGE

• 30,962 visitors. • Our commercial offer was Walls have ears: 400 years of change presented significantly improved with an alternative narrative about this Jacobean • £144,914 in income the launch of a new gift shop mansion, displaying portraiture reflecting the via admissions, events, located inside the grand ethnic diversity and socio-economic profile of retail, catering and old mansion itself. Work Aston’s local population today, in contrast with venue hire. also began on rebranding when the Hall was constructed in the early • Aston Hall celebrated its the café. The shop product 17th century. Contemporary art in the form of 400th anniversary with the ranges and café branding painting, tapestry, photography, film, sculpture exhibition Walls have ears: have taken direct inspiration and ceramics offered a surprising twist on 400 years of change, an from Aston Hall’s magnificent Aston Hall’s history. The displays incorporated Arts Council Collection interiors and architecture. 18 artworks on loan from the Arts Council National Partners exhibition. Collection alongside three works from our own • Aston Hall scored 88% collection. The exhibition attracted 20,764 in VisitEngland’s Visitor • The site hosted the visitors, including 556 people who took part in Attraction Quality Assurance Independent Birmingham on-site learning activities. A digital audience of Scheme and also received Festival for the second year 27,000 viewed livestreams and podcasts. running. This year’s event their Best Told Story was even bigger, attracting Accolade. 4,000 festivalgoers who celebrated their city’s heritage and independent culture.

16 / 17 HIGHLIGHTS FAMILY ROOM

The new Family Room opened in the Hall, • 17,969 visitors. 2018, with contemporary building on audience research undertaken by artwork installed in both the the Blakesley Hall team to better understand • £89,859 in income Hall and Visitor Centre. how the visitor experience could be improved via admissions, events, for our family visitors. The result of the research retail, catering and • Our successful volunteer is a dedicated area full of fun activities designed venue hire. programme continued to to support families in learning together about grow, including development • Blakesley Hall continued to the history of Blakesley Hall and the people of the community garden create and deliver successful who have lived there over the centuries. area that had been created community and commercial Visitor feedback has been very positive. with The Prince’s Trust. events such as our Apple day This project was kindly funded by City and Falconry day. The annual • The new Family Room of Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Blakesley Hall ale & cider opened in the Hall in Development Trust. festival generated significant February 2019, providing income for the site as well as learning resources and fun attracting new audiences and activities for family visitors. creating new partnerships. • The Arts Council Collection exhibition Nature’s presence was exhibited at Blakesley Hall from April to September DIPPY ON TOUR: A NATURAL HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS ADVENTURE

• 855,508 visitors. • Leonardo da Vinci: a life in drawing Dippy on Tour: A Natural History Adventure opened in February 2019, had a phenomenal impact on Birmingham • £1,633,140 in income attracting 55,381 visitors in the Museums Trust and the city. Over a quarter via schools, events, retail, first two months of opening. of a million people (255,548) visited the catering and venue hire. exhibition, spending £4.2m in Birmingham • Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery • In May 2018, we welcomed during its 107-day run. The popularity of scored 91% in VisitEngland’s Visitor Dippy on Tour: A Natural History the exhibition helped to boost Birmingham Attraction Quality Assurance Adventure. This exhibition in Museum & Art Gallery’s overall visitor Scheme. For the fifth year running, partnership with the Natural figures during that time to 387,619 – well we were awarded their Quality History Museum received over over double the attendance for the same Food and Drink Accolade for the a quarter of a million visitors, period the previous year. Edwardian Tearooms. a record-breaking number Our educational programming enabled us for a temporary exhibition at • We won the Family Favourites to try out new events such as Bio Blitzes, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Award (2018): Best event at an and our retail offering expanded with a pop- attraction, Midlands for Dippy on • We exhibited four Arts Council up shop inside the exhibition. There was an Tour: A Natural History Adventure, Collection National Partners extremely positive commercial impact for Day Out With The Kids, as well Programme exhibitions this year: both Conference and Banqueting and the as three Birmingham What’s On Coming out: sexuality, gender Edwardian Tearooms, with August 2018 Readers’ Awards (2019) for: Best and identity, The everyday and breaking all records as the highest month of Birmingham Visitor Attraction, extraordinary, Women power income in the five years since the Edwardian Best Exhibition in the Midlands protest and Too cute! Sweet is Tearooms were refurbished. for Dippy on Tour: A Natural History about to get sinister, curated Adventure, and Best Birmingham by artist Rachel Maclean. Art Gallery/Exhibition Venue.

18 / 19 HIGHLIGHTS HERITAGE OPEN DAY

• 2,006 visitors. start of the Arts Council In 2018 the Museum Collection Centre England National Portfolio participated in Heritage Open Days for the • £1,226 in income from Organisation (NPO) funded first time since 2015. Supported by excellent admissions, activities Science & Industry project, coverage in the Birmingham Mail before and open day. which is cataloguing 25,000 the event, the theme for the Open Day was • In addition to the successful, items held in storage. Explore the store. Family activities, meet-the- free entry Heritage Open experts, street food stalls and free vintage • A rolling programme of Day, the Museum Collection bus rides to and from the city centre made storage improvements Centre hosted the sold-out the day an outstanding success, attracting saw replacement picture evening event Casks and 1,063 visitors (80% of whom were first-time racking, new cabinets for curiosity, when 100 visitors visitors), and proved to be our most popular the topographical views purchased tickets to visit Heritage Open Day in 10 years. collection, and re-boxing the store during the evening of social history material and enjoy a complimentary stored in unsuitable wooden cocktail while listening to a cabinets. roving brass band. • Dialogue continued with HS2 • Following the completion over the potential impact of the Arts Council England- of construction and other funded Birmingham operations on the Museum Manufactures project, focus Collection Centre building on the collections stored and collection. at the Museum Collection Centre continued with the HIGHLIGHTS JEWELLER IN RESIDENCE

• 20,906 visitors. Trust’s online shop and In October 2018, the Museum of the Jewellery launched our promotional Quarter welcomed its first jeweller in residence, • £134,343 in income Instagram account Fiona Harris. The competition was open to via admissions, events, @jewelleryquarterdesigns graduates of Birmingham City University retail, catering and to showcase the wide range School of Jewellery, with applicants asked to venue hire. of locally designed products design a two-piece jewellery range inspired • We refreshed the events available. by the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and programme at the Museum the catalogue of the historic Smith & Pepper • The commercial gallery of the Jewellery Quarter jewellery firm. Fiona’s winning design for a continued to host a range this year. In addition to our pendant necklace and earrings was inspired by of selling shows, including popular jewellery workshops, one of Smith & Pepper’s best known designs, Tom Parry’s Made on the the site hosted well-received whose snake-like loop features on the Museum canal and Illuminate by winter cinema screenings, of the Jewellery Quarter logo. The range was Centrepiece. evening Whisky & twilight produced using the historic machinery at the evening tours in partnership • The Museum of the Jewellery museum and the outstanding facilities provided with Birmingham Whisky Quarter retained its score of by our partners in the scheme, Birmingham City Club and we rolled out a 90% in VisitEngland’s Visitor University’s School of Jewellery. The pieces are new Women’s work tour. Attraction Quality Assurance now on sale online and in the museum gift shop. Scheme. • In November 2018, we added The jeweller in residence programme was made our jeweller in residence’s possible by a Birmingham Museums Patron who range of jewellery to wishes to remain anonymous. Birmingham Museums

20 / 21 HIGHLIGHTS CROWDFUNDING APPEAL

• 16,922 visitors. • We developed our own “I grew up on Sarehole Road. Such a lovely place to in-house craft markets, visit and a great addition to the local community • £58,827 in income launched over summer and economy.” – CROWDFUNDING DONOR via admissions, events, 2018, which now continue retail, catering and throughout the seasons. venue hire. “Sarehole Mill is a special place for every Tolkien • The Middle Earth festival fan. There is where Tolkien’s imagination • May 2018 saw major flooding and Pumpkin flotilla were originated. It must live.” – CROWDFUNDING DONOR at the site which prevented well received, the latter the safe operation of the mill selling out once again as In January 2019, Birmingham Museums Trust wheel for the whole year. this popular event entered launched its first ever crowdfunding campaign This didn’t dampen the spirits its fifth year. Get Sarehole milling again. Months of preparation of the staff and volunteers, proved worthwhile, because within the first nine who still delivered a series of • Work began on resolving days of going live we reached our target of £6,500. fantastic events throughout the issues created by The campaign received widespread publicity from 2018/19. the flooding thanks to the general public and the media including the overwhelming public support • The May Day folk event was BBC. By the end of the five-week campaign, we for our first crowdfunding a tremendous success and in had successfully raised over £10,000 in donations. campaign. July 2018 we welcomed back The additional funds will be used to support the our popular Victorian day. improvement of the flour store, which is crucial to ensuring the freshly ground flour is kept dry. BOULTON GOES HIGHLIGHTS TO BOLLYWOOD

The Boulton goes to Bollywood festival returned • 8,187 visitors. (LITE) project organised to Soho House in 2018. The main event was by Community Education a performance by the all-female Bhangra • £31,880 in income via Academy of Leadership group Eternal Taal, who wowed visitors with admissions, events, (CEAL), which centred on three powerful routines. Alongside this we ran retail, catering and the local post-war textile activities in the event space which celebrated venue hire. industry from the perspective varied aspects of South Asian culture. Visitors • We achieved improvements of workers from African, were treated to themed craft activities, dance to operations at Soho House. Caribbean and South Asian workshops, music, henna and face painting as Work was completed on the communities. well as Indian-inspired street food. Goodison Education Room, • As part of a varied events a dedicated schools space programme, Soho House within Soho House. Further presented Women of development of the Soho excellence and understanding, Coffee Shop in the reception a talk about the women of area continued to deliver Soho House by Dr Kate Croft; commercial benefit and the first in a series of events improvements to the visitor marking the bicentenary of experience. ’s death, in 2019. • Soho House hosted a series of community exhibitions including The legacy of industrial textiles enterprise

22 / 23 SMETHWICK ENGINE HIGHLIGHTS RESTORATION

• 230,770 visitors. between museum staff and The Smethwick Engine, designed by James Watt young people was central to and built in 1778–1779, is the world’s oldest • 47,957 school children the final interpretation and working steam engine. Three years ago, we visited. design of the exhibits. discovered that the internal hemp rope packing on • 10,945 people engaged the piston had degraded and the engine could not • We expanded our hugely in our STEM (science, be run on steam. After a successful campaign which successful Career Ladder technology, engineering raised over £42,000, we undertook restoration programme. We recruited 21 and mathematics) learning work. In November 2018 we held the first public young people to our annual outreach programme. steaming of the Smethwick Engine for over three summer traineeship, each years. Local councillors and members of the media spending six weeks delivering • £2,325,771 in income attended, and we used the weekend to promote activities and learning about via admissions, events, the restoration work alongside planned citywide museum careers across retail, catering and events in 2019, which will mark the bicentenary Birmingham Museums Trust. venue hire. of the death of James Watt. • Thinktank hosted two • Thinktank scored 86% Women in engineering displays in VisitEngland’s Visitor highlighting prominent Attraction Quality Assurance female contributors to large- Scheme, up 4% from scale engineering projects 2017/18, and was awarded within the Midlands. the Welcome Accolade for our visitor services team’s • The production phase of excellent performance. the £2.2m MiniBrum project was successfully completed. A creative co-production HIGHLIGHTS BIO BLITZ

• 7,663 visitors. • The Castle Keepers and Our first phase of Bio Blitzes at Sarehole Mill and a series of corporate Weoley Castle brought museum staff together • 2018/19 saw the return of volunteer groups worked with naturalists and scientists to encourage a series of popular events hard throughout the year over 300 members of our local communities at Weoley Castle. These to maintain this important to discover and record the biodiversity of our included the St George and Scheduled Ancient venues. With the aid of specialists, visitors the Dragon egg hunt and Monument and fascinating explored diverse flora and fauna, sought out numerous themed craft link to Birmingham’s beasties and evidenced a range of living species sessions for children in medieval past. which helped capture biodiversity data for both school holidays. regional and national research. • The annual Medieval open day Through a partnership with the Natural History in July 2018 featured a battle Museum, we will use Bio Blitz activities each year arena and even more historic to increase biodiversity and heritage learning for characters to meet and our local communities and schools. greet than in previous years. Our Falconry day in September welcomed record numbers to see birds of prey take to the sky over the ruins.

24 / 25 COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS

Birmingham Museums Trust • Over 700 watercolours and • Collection of 22 photographic • Collection of 17 early 20th- acquired 1,353 items for the drawings by the Birmingham prints from the series Muzik century English pewter city’s collection this year, of artist Arthur Lockwood kinda sweet plus other images pieces and two drawings which 334 were purchased recording aspects of the of well-known artists, locations by Edward Poynter (1836– and 1,027 donated or city’s industrial and urban and events in Birmingham by 1919), bequeathed by bequeathed. Acquisitions environment. Pogus Caesar, 1983-2011. Harley Hall Preston. through the Collecting • Xeedho used in Somali • Collection of 16 photographic • Three watercolours and Birmingham project wedding ceremonies, late prints from the series I was drawings by the Birmingham continued to dominate 20th century. born an Irish Catholic (2007) architect William Henry (totalling 1,108) but were and Reasonable behaviour Bidlake (1861–1938), • Expressive deviant phonology, supplemented by objects (1994) by Stephen J Morgan. bequeathed by Sutton installation incorporating acquired through other Donovan Webster. works on paper and a drum • Collection of items from the routes. Acquisitions included: kit by Lucy McLauchlan, 2007. Oriental Star Record Agency, • Study of a fisherman by formerly on Moseley Road, Birmingham artist Walter • Collection of items relating to • Female figure in yellow, Birmingham, including a Langley (1852–1922), the development of gaming painting by Nigerian artist personal collection of 200 presented by Mr and Mrs technology in Birmingham Ben Enwonwu (1917–94), records of Indian, Pakistani Robert Holmes in memory belonging to Andrew Wright, bequeathed by Jean Alero and British music belonging of Miss Rose Deakin. John Court and Zafar Qamar, Thomas with Art Fund to the shop owner Mr Ayub. late 20th century. support.

MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION In November 2018, Collecting Birmingham, of age, sexual orientation, socio-economic, AWARD: an HLF-funded engagement-led acquisition faith and ethnic backgrounds. As a result of project, was named as the winner of the the project over 1,800 objects were acquired Museums Association’s Museums Change Lives for the city’s collection, from an installation Best MCL Project Award. This national prize by Birmingham street artist Lucy McLauchlan, was awarded for the project’s engagement to a collection of Indian and Pakistani records with over 3,500 people in the Birmingham from the Oriental Star Agency music shop. wards of Soho, Aston, and Ladywood, which include diverse communities in terms PHOTO COURTESY OF THE OKLAHOMA MUSEUM OF ART

VICTORIAN RADICALS Birmingham Museums Trust’s major It showcases the city’s outstanding holdings of – OKLAHOMA international exhibition Victorian radicals: Victorian and Edwardian fine and decorative from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts art and celebrates its historic importance as a movement began its US tour at Oklahoma centre for progressive Arts and Crafts practice. City Museum of Art in October 2018. Victorian radicals attracted over 14,000 visitors Organised in partnership with the American in Oklahoma and continues its tour to seven Federation of Arts, Victorian radicals is the other US venues during 2019/21. largest and most complex touring exhibition ever staged from Birmingham’s collection.

LOANS

Over 8.5m visitors have • 58 works lent for The • 86 artworks lent for Women Outward loans to enjoyed seeing objects on everyday and extraordinary, power protest, held at 10 UK venues long loan to museums held at Birmingham Museum Birmingham Museum The British Library, Royal around the world. 277 loans & Art Gallery. & Art Gallery. Academy of Arts, Tate Britain, for exhibitions seen by • 29 artworks lent for New • 49 artworks lent for Too cute! Tate St Ives, The Fitzwilliam 525,649 people; 471,895 Art West Midlands, held at Sweet is about to get sinister, Museum, Pallant House, visitors to national venues Birmingham Museum & held at Birmingham Museum 10 Downing Street, Herbert and 53,754 visitors to Art Gallery. & Art Gallery. Museum and Art Gallery, international venues. Museum of Cannock Chase, • 18 artworks lent for Walls • 12 artworks lent for Leonardo Midlands Arts Centre. 368 objects were lent to have ears: 400 years of da Vinci: a life in drawing, held Birmingham Museums Trust change, held at Aston Hall. at Birmingham Museum & Outward loans to four Art Gallery. for seven exhibitions. • 12 artworks lent for international venues These included: Nature’s presence, held Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, at Blakesley Hall. Gropius Bau Berlin, Oklahoma • 103 works lent for Coming City Museum of Art, Vero out: sexuality, gender and • One item lent for Dippy on Beach Museum of Art. identity, a touring exhibition Tour: A Natural History conceived in partnership with Adventure, held at Birmingham National Museums Liverpool, Museum & Art Gallery. held at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.

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• We condition checked and We developed the events • Our conservation volunteers • We supported the care and conserved objects as part and narratives module undertook conservation management of the city’s of exhibitions, loans and to support the use of the housekeeping at our venues, Public Art collection including displays, and managed the collection management cleaned the silver collection the conservation of the movement, storage and system as a central tool for at the Museum Collection Queen Victoria statue in documentation of collections storyline development for Centre and transferred Victoria Square, with funding across our venues. major capital projects. historic paper records to of £5,000 from Birmingham our collection management Civic Society. • We supported collection • We hosted a number of system. documentation for the interns and students, • Total departmental income Science & Industry project, including a PhD researcher. • We supported the external was almost £15,000, and undertook an asbestos Parabola of Pre-Raphaelitism including conservation studio • We established a new survey of the museum touring exhibition in Japan, rental income of £5,000, workflow and digitisation collection, to support a securing income of £20,000 contracting services income workspace and commenced programme of collections to support the appointment of just over £7,000, loans a four-year Arts Council rationalisation. of a dedicated Assistant income of £2,000 and £495 England NPO-funded project Loans Registrar, and from Conservation Studio • We improved EMu, the digitising and inventorying preparation of 36 works, tours. collection management 36,000 works from the shipped in March 2019. system, by undertaking designated works on paper programmes of data-tidying. collection.

CONSERVATION OF Dippy on Tour: A Natural History Adventure the flipper and place him on a new permanent BIRD COLLECTION provided an opportunity to conserve, remount wooden mount. and display a large number of our natural At the end of the temporary exhibition, history specimens which are usually in storage, around 40 of the objects were redisplayed in and some of which were showing signs of Thinktank’s natural history display as part of age, such as our king penguin with a damaged the Dippy Legacy project. flipper. With help from a natural history conservation expert, we were able to reattach COMPLETION OF ARTS The Arts Council Collection National Partners and engagement with organisations including COUNCIL COLLECTION Programme culminated with a celebration Shelter and the Precious Trust. International NATIONAL PARTNERS event at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery artist and filmmaker Rachel Maclean curated PROGRAMME including live music, pop-up photography, a film Too cute! Sweet is about to get sinister. Displaying documenting the programme and a chance to aspects from Birmingham’s collection alongside see the final exhibitions. Women power protest contemporary sculpture from the Arts Council showcased work by female artists to celebrate Collection, this exhibition attracted an audience the centenary of the Representation of the of over 64,000 up to the end of March 2019. People Act. It generated an audience of 34,000

CURATORIAL

In the final year of the Arts master’s drawings from museum. Within and without The West Midlands Portable Council Collection National the Royal Collection went examined how social, historical Antiquities Scheme (PAS) team Partners Programme, on display at Birmingham and cultural factors affect body recorded 5,181 finds in 2,327 we delivered three new Museum & Art Gallery in the image and how this is expressed records, managed 75 treasure exhibitions, displaying artworks exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: through objects and artworks. A cases, and regularly visited from Birmingham alongside a life in drawing. One of 12 team of volunteer collaborators metal detecting club meetings items from the Arts Council simultaneous exhibitions worked with museum staff to to liaise with finders and give Collection. The exhibitions were taking place across the UK, select and shape the exhibition lectures. The team reached a The everyday and extraordinary, the selection of drawings on and interpretation. total of 775 metal detector which subsequently toured view in Birmingham reflected users and engaged with 2,113 New permanent displays on to the Towner Gallery, the full range of Leonardo’s people through outreach the evolution of birds from Eastbourne, Women power interests: painting, sculpture, activities across the region dinosaurs and the adaptations protest, and Too cute! Sweet is architecture, music, anatomy, including lectures, school of bird species opened at about to get sinister. Exhibitions engineering, cartography, sessions, finds recording at a Thinktank. These objects from at Aston Hall and Blakesley Hall, geology and botany. metal detecting rally, delivering the city’s collection originally Walls have ears and Nature’s training for PAS colleagues and Within and without: body formed part of the exhibition presence, which opened the finds handling sessions. Among image and the self opened accompanying Dippy on Tour: previous year, continued into these last was a handling as the second exhibition in A Natural History Adventure in autumn 2018. session held in a field on the Birmingham Museum & Art summer 2018. The new displays Winter Solstice at the foot of To mark the 500th anniversary Gallery’s Story LAB gallery, comprise taxidermy, eight fossil a Roman burial. of the death of Leonardo da a space inviting visitors to replicas, one bird skeleton and Vinci, 12 of the Renaissance help shape the future of the two bird skulls.

28 / 29 MAKING IT HAPPEN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Training and development safeguarding policies and • A new visitor welcome • 22 young local people from continued to be a focus, processes, ensuring relevant induction was created, diverse backgrounds gained upskilling our employees staff roles are fully trained with training delivered to knowledge and experience of to ensure we have a highly in how to respond to nominated Senior Museum museums, by working on our trained workforce. safeguarding concerns. 121 Enablers to ensure a more Science and Heritage Career staff accessed the Level 1 consistent approach across Ladder initiative. Highlights in 2018/19 included: safeguarding online training our venues. courses and our designated Training undertaken • Following the launch of our • A student on the supported safeguarding officers in 2018/19 included: new online learning platform learning programme at completed the designated in April 2018, 171 staff South and City College • Lift entrapment safeguarding officer (Level 3) completed 855 online Birmingham, designed to • First aid at work training. courses on topics including; support individuals on the • Microsoft Project and Excel safeguarding, manual handling, • An in-house training course autistic spectrum, completed • IOSH food safety, food allergies, on retail loss and prevention a work placement in the HR • Permit to work payment card industry was created and rolled out department, with the aim of • Designated safeguarding awareness, fire safety and to retail teams to aid them supporting their transition officer fire warden training. in recognising suspicious into employment at the end behaviour, how to deal with of their training. • Recruitment and selection • A new training matrix was theft and how to prevent it. • ACT document awareness introduced to support our

LEADERSHIP In 2018/19, our first cohort of staff achieved an knowledge and experience to drive excellence DEVELOPMENT Apprenticeship in Management and Leadership within their areas, as well as creating a talent PROGRAMME (Level 5), as well as our first cohort of staff pool of leaders for the future. on the Apprenticeship in Management To further support the development of our (Level 3) continuing to work towards their managers, a training programme of bite-size end assessment. As a result of a needs analysis sessions was introduced aimed at improving completed in 2017, and in line with the the understanding of staff management organisation’s values and strategic aims, this processes as well as boosting confidence training was designed to support employees when handling difficult situations and enabling new to managerial roles and to strengthen staff to manage their teams more effectively. succession planning. The programmes were designed to equip the managers with the skills, DEVELOPMENT

Birmingham Museums was a natural fit and Trust has the ambition to the sponsorship income COUTTS SPONSORSHIP OF diversify its income and enabled us to exhibit LEONARDO DA VINCI: A LIFE IN DRAWING increase sustainability Dippy to 255,548 visitors Coutts Bank first became supporters of Birmingham by building relationships during the summer of Museums Trust when they donated towards the with new and existing 2018. The exhibition was acquisition of the Staffordshire Hoard in 2009 supporters. Our fundraising also funded by the Friends via their Charitable Trust. Since then Coutts has strategy seeks to realise of Birmingham Museums. supported Birmingham Museums Trust through this ambition by sharing • The James Watt our Patrons programme and by sponsoring both our charitable message Smethwick Engine was of our Leonardo da Vinci exhibitions, the latest of and raising the profile of restored to working which was the Leonardo da Vinci: a life in drawing at Birmingham Museums Trust condition in time for Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. The impact of regionally, nationally and the Watt Bicentenary in such a longstanding relationship, and the benefits internationally. 2019. We were very lucky it brings, is huge for a charity like ours. It also Fundraising income at to have two generous demonstrates that businesses enjoy working with Birmingham Museums Trust donors who funded the Birmingham Museums Trust and have significant includes project-specific and restoration of the engine. benefits to gain themselves. unrestricted income, and this IMI plc’s objective of has a direct impact on total strengthening their link to “We enjoyed working with Birmingham Museums funds raised from year to industrial heritage in the Trust hosting our guests to not only enjoy a special year. In 2018/19, Birmingham city provided the perfect preview of the Leonardo collection but to also Museums Trust generated opportunity for them acknowledge 25 years since Coutts established fundraising income of over to donate towards the our Birmingham office. Working with Birmingham £1.5m from a range of Smethwick Engine. We Museums Trust offers our clients a unique supporters, donors and grant also received a donation experience whilst at the same time demonstrating makers. Notable highlights from an anonymous donor. our commitment to our city and our ongoing included: Our inaugural steaming of the Smethwick Engine patronage of the arts. We felt that the team • Dippy on Tour: A Natural took place in November at Birmingham Museums Trust understood our History Adventure at 2018. It was wonderful for requirements well and did everything required Birmingham Museum & our visitors to witness this to make our events a success.” Art Gallery was sponsored legendary engine working by Paradise Birmingham. as it should after three MILES PLUMB As our neighbour, a long years out of action. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, COUTTS BANK partnership with Paradise

30 / 31 TRADING RETAIL

In 2018/19 we continued to bring new bespoke products to ASTON HALL SHOP the market and worked to improve our retail spaces across the business. The refurbishment of the Aston Hall shop To increase sales, the gift shop at Aston Hall was relocated has increased conversion and we expect to see the sales from a small corner of the café to a bright and airy space success of its first months of operation continue into the in the historic mansion. Product ranges were expanded, new financial year. bespoke merchandise inspired by the site and the collection We developed our online presence, adding hundreds of were developed, and new furniture purchased to best new products to our online shop. We also created a new display the significantly improved product. The beautiful brand and associated Instagram account for our jewellery mother of pearl model of Aston Hall returned to display in range in a bid to access new customers. This platform the shop, making the gift shop part of the wider museum allows us to showcase the local designer-makers that we experience. The project was a success, with Aston Hall collaborate with as well as the exceptional work of our own achieving its monthly retail target within the first week jeweller in residence. and drawing exceptionally positive feedback from visitors. The arrival of Dippy on Tour: A Natural History Adventure at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery presented an opportunity to develop and deliver a pop-up exhibition shop over summer 2019, which exceeded all targets. Successes at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery continued with well-received ranges relating to our exhibitions Women power protest, Too cute! Sweet is about to get sinister and Leonardo da Vinci: a life in drawing. FOOD AND BEVERAGE

2018/19 saw yet more sales records being broken as SUNDAY LUNCH we continued to grow our food and beverage income across our nine venues. We identified the promotion of the Edwardian Tearooms’ traditional Sunday lunch as a potential area for sales We rolled out the new ET Kitchen product range, growth. A selection of journalists and bloggers were invited which now allows us to deliver delicious sandwiches, to sample our three-course Sunday menu in a bid to raise handcrafted by our team of excellent chefs, to all our museum cafés across the business. the profile of dishes such as ham hock terrine with salad and piccalilli, homemade soup, roast beef and Yorkshire For the fifth year running, the Edwardian Tearooms was puddings, roast loin of pork and our popular sticky toffee awarded VisitEngland’s Quality Food & Drink Accolade, pudding. This influencers’ event was accompanied by demonstrating our continued commitment to excellence. further press engagement, refreshed food photography We continued to develop our menus, trialling new and social media promotion. Weekly sales have now tripled, products such as Vegan Afternoon Tea. This year also and our Sunday lunch has featured in a number of ‘Best in saw our first exhibition-themed menus, with our Dippy Brum’ online lists. the Dinosaur children’s menu being particularly well received by customers over the summer period. The roll-out of unique identities for our cafés across the business continued. 2018/19 saw the refurbishment of the Stable Yard Café at Aston Hall. We also began brand development work on our new food and beverage concept for Thinktank, the Signal Box Café, which launches in early 2019/20.

32 / 33 CONFERENCE AND BANQUETING

In 2018, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery won Venue DINE WITH DIPPY of the Year in the Birmingham What’s On Reader Awards. We grew our wedding business significantly as news of As part of Dippy on Tour we offered the unique Waterhall Weddings continued to spread, supported by opportunity for either drinks and canapés, or dinner fantastic feedback from our clients. with Dippy in order to give guests the chance to experience Dippy at close quarters out of hours. A series of themed packages were introduced to complement the programme of temporary exhibitions, Two packages were created – Jurassic and Cretaceous from Jurassic dining packages during Dippy on Tour: – each with bespoke canapé and dinner menus. A Natural History Adventure to the Maestro dining package A Prehistoric Punch recipe was developed as part of during Leonardo da Vinci: a life in drawing. Opportunities the packages and service included platters dressed such as these allow us to host something unique for our with banana leaves and dry ice to give a smoke effect. clients in a very crowded marketplace. Tables for dinner had a jungle-themed floral display At Thinktank we produced improved wayfinding and and each guest received a dinosaur pin badge as a literature, giving us better tools to promote our spaces. gift to take home. In addition to driving sales, efficiency remained a critical part of our work. A new event management system has allowed us to begin to streamline processes and we are looking forward to realising further benefits of this new system in the coming year. FINANCES

TOTAL INCOME 11,929,444

BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL 39%

TRADING 20%

ADMISSION INCOME 17%

FUNDRAISING 13%

ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND NPO 8%

MILLENNIUM POINT TRUST 2%

OTHER 1%

TOTAL EXPENDITURE 12,219,237

STAFF COSTS 46%

OTHER OPERATING EXPENDITURE 40%

MAINTENANCE AND RUNNING COSTS 10%

MARKETING 3%

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION 1%

34 / 35 TRUSTEES AND EXHIBITIONS, TALKS MANAGEMENT AND LECTURES

BOARD OF TRUSTEES EXHIBITIONS AND DISPLAY CHANGES Professor Ian Grosvenor MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Chair Gas Hall

Mohammed Ali MBE (appointed July 2018) Coming out: sexuality, gender and identity 2 December 2017 – 15 April 2018 Councillor Muhammad Afzal Dippy on Tour: A Natural History Adventure Dr Louise Brooke-Smith OBE (appointed January 2019) 26 May – 9 September 2018 Alderman Randall Brew OBE, JP, FCA Women power protest Deborah de Haes (to May 2018) 10 November 2018 – 31 March 2019 John Diviney (appointed July 2018) Community Gallery David Lewis (to May 2018) Asian youth culture: exploring the Eamon Mooney heritage & history of young Mohammed Rahman British Asians in Birmingham 4 May – 29 July 2018 Luke Southall (appointed July 2018) Tracey Stephenson Fighting for our heritage 25 August 2018 – 3 February 2019 Jan Teo (to May 2018) Jonnie Turpie MBE Other Galleries Chrissie Twigg Collecting Birmingham: who is Birmingham? From 18 April 2018 Claire Williamson (appointed July 2018) The everyday and extraordinary 9 June – 9 September 2018 Re-hang of Pre-Raphaelite galleries SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM From June 2018 Dr Ellen McAdam Inspire 18 Director 22 July – 6 November 2018 Rachel Cockett Within and without: body image and the self Director of Development From 22 July 2018 Janine Eason Hidden perspectives: Director of Engagement Whitworth Wallis artists in residence 29 Sept – 25 Nov 2018 Alex Nicholson-Evans Commercial Director Staffordshire Hoard helmet reconstruction From 23 November 2018 Toby Watley Director of Collections Too cute! Sweet is about to get sinister 26 January – 12 May 2019 Arif Kaji (to June 2018) Nicholas Briggs (interim) Leonardo da Vinci: a life in drawing Richard Paterson (appointed January 2019) 1 February – 6 May 2019 Director of Finance ASTON HALL Walls have ears: 400 years of change 30 March – 30 September 2018

BLAKESLEY HALL Nature’s presence 30 March – 30 September 2018

MUSEUM OF THE JEWELLERY QUARTER Made on the canal – the Jewellery Quarter and a little beyond 15 June – 10 November 2018 Illuminate by Centrepiece 2 February 2019, Panel contributor in discussion 16 November 2018 – 31 March 2019 exploring the value of artist-led research in the context of heritage sites, National Trust/New Art West Midlands SOHO HOUSE conference The legacy of industrial textiles 11 March 2019, Queer art and Women power protest enterprise (LITE) project exhibition tours, for politics and sociology students, 21 June – 15 October 2018 , Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

THINKTANK 28 March 2019, Women power protest exhibition tour, for Arts Council Collection curators’ day, Birmingham Operation build Thinktank summer exhibit Museum & Art Gallery 21 July – 9 September Bridgman, R How did birds evolve from dinosaurs? 25 April 2018, The past is now: Birmingham and the British From 7 January 2019 Empire talk about the exhibition, for Glasgow Life staff Diversity of birds as part of an interpretation development exercise in relation to the Burrell Collection redevelopment From 7 January 2019 9 May 2018, Developing the Faith in Birmingham Gallery, TOURING delivered with Mr Makhdoom Chishti (Birmingham The everyday and extraordinary Central Mosque), Subject Specialist Network for Islamic Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne Art and Material Culture study day entitled Faith in museums: practical approaches to using your collections 29 September 2018 – 6 January 2019 in collaboration with Bradford Museums, Birmingham Victorian radicals: from the Pre-Raphaelites Museum & Art Gallery to the Arts and Crafts movement 29 March 2019, Engaging audiences through Islamic art Oklahoma City Museum of Art, and material culture, Islamic Law and Islamic Humanities Oklahoma City, Oklahoma network, University of Birmingham, funded through 13 October 2018 – 6 January 2019 Midlands Innovation Research Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida May 2019, The past is now: Birmingham and the British 9 February – 5 May 2019 Empire, round table event on race, heritage and Parabola of Pre-Raphaelitism museums, part of a seminar series run by TORCH: Tokyo Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, 14 March – 9 June 2019 University of Oxford Bridgman, R & Rutter, L 18 December 2018, CAKE: beauty demands – exploring TALKS AND LECTURES body image, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Arcus, J 8 November 2018, Optical illusions, for 240 Chan, A & Turton, Z, psychology students, University of Birmingham 26 September 2018, Dippy on Tour, National Trust marketing sharing day, Birmingham Museum & Art 27 November 2018, Engagement and interpretation, Gallery for medical students, University of Birmingham Cockett, R Barker, R 3 May 2018, By the gains of industry, seminar on 21 November 2018, North-west museum development commercial and private sector relationships, Touring training day on age-friendly museums network and Exhibitions Group, Bristol activities, Liverpool 17 June 2018, Rethinking legacy strategies to meet Beddoes-Davies, E future challenges panel, Legacy Strategy Summit, 12 June 2018, Careers talk, for postgraduate students, Wilmington Charities, London University of Birmingham College of Arts & Law Deere, L 13 June 2018, What do we want? Talk about this 9 October 2018, STEMteens: creating a diverse and Museums Worcestershire exhibition, Art Fund inclusive workforce, Association of Science and Discovery Committee Annual Lunch, London Centres pre-conference, Museum of Science and 1 August 2018, Careers talk for aspiring arts Industry, Manchester professionals, at There is no script for this event, 11 October 2018, Science and heritage career ladder, for Eastside Projects, Birmingham museum studies masters students, 2 February 2019, Panel contributor in discussion Eason, J exploring the value of artist-led research in the 14 November 2018, Strategic planning for formal context of heritage sites, National Trust/New Art education, Arts Connect West Midlands programme, West Midlands conference Midlands Arts Centre

36 / 37 Fletcher, R REFEREED PUBLICATIONS 25 October 2018, Dippy on Tour – working with dinosaurs, inspirational careers event for young people in care, Allnatt, V, 2018 50 Finds From Worcestershire, Amberley Birmingham Careers Service Books 18 December 2018, Volunteering for all at Birmingham Allnatt, V, 2018 A late Roman crossbow brooch from Museums, Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, Loppington, Shropshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 55-6 Chester Allnatt, V, 2018 A silver post medieval bead from Church 11 February 2019, Getting involved at Birmingham Eaton, Staffordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 68 Museums, University of Birmingham work experience in Allnatt, V, 2018 A Roman umbonate brooch from the arts, Birmingham Penkridge, Staffordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 73 Graham, H, Minott, R & Rutter, L Allnatt, V and Worrell, S, 2018 A Roman helmet cheek- 11 October 2018, Story LAB sharing day, Birmingham piece from Penkridge, Staffordshire, West Midlands Museum & Art Gallery Archaeol 59, 73

Iqbal, Z Allnatt, V and Worrell, S, 2018 A late Iron Age or early 17 December 2018, Embedding change within Roman harness or vessel fitting from Wheaton Aston, organisations – Thinktank’s Science Heritage Career Staffordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 81 Ladder, Association for Science and Discovery Centres Bolton, A, 2017 BRAILES, SP3041, Medieval Harness charrette, We the Curious, Bristol Pendant (WAW-2938AD), West Midlands Archaeol 59, 6 March 2019, Working in a science museum, career 88–89 focussed speed networking, RSA Academy, Tipton Bolton, A, 2017 SPERNALL, SP1062, Roman Prick Spur (WAW-586333), West Midlands Archaeol 59, 119 McAdam, E 4 April 2018, The Museums, Bolton, A, 2017 PERSHORE, SO9447, Flaked Axehead Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society (WAW-6E1FBE), West Midlands Archaeol 59, 157–158 4 July 2018, Birmingham Museums, Making museums in Bolton, A, 2017 UPTON WARREN, SO9367, Medieval the Midlands conference, Harness Pendant (WAW-DC4027), West Midlands Archaeol 59, 57–158 27 September 2018, Temporary exhibitions: sacred cow or dead duck? National Trust exhibitions think Bolton, A, 2018 Wulfred, Archbishop of Canterbury: Coin tank, London Register, British Numismatic Journal 88, 117 5 November 2018, Birmingham: rediscovering Burford, S, 2018 Finds reported to the PAS in 2014, archaeology for a super-diverse city, Society of Museum Journal for the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeologists conference, UCL Archaeology 50, 149-157 24 November 2018, The history of Birmingham Museums, Farley, J, and Gilmore, T, 2018 An Iron Age hoard Birmingham History Day, University of Birmingham of torcs from Leekfrith, Staffordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 71 22 January 2019, The history of Birmingham Museums, Friends of Birmingham Museums Gilmore, T, 2018 A Bronze Age gold ribbon fragment from Chapel and Hill Chorlton, Staffordshire, West Morton, K Midlands Archaeol 59, 68 16 January 2019, Exhibition planning and programming, University of Birmingham cultural intern scheme, Gilmore, T, 2018 A medieval zoomorphic gaping mouth Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery buckle from Harlaston, Staffordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 70 Roberts, P Gilmore, T, 2018 A medieval annular brooch from 14 September 2018, Workshop manufacture and the Harlaston, Staffordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 70 ground of invention: understanding the science and industry collections at Birmingham Museums, Science Gilmore, T, 2018 A Bronze Age palstave from Hixon, Museum Group research conference Staffordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 70

Unsworth, R Gilmore, T, 2018 A Roman crossbow brooch from 16 November 2018, Every man well apparelled: men’s Wigginton and Hopwas, Staffordshire, West Midlands fashion and networks of news in early modern practice Archaeol 59, 82 and print, Pasold Research Fund conference Fifty years Gilmore T, 2018 A post medieval silver cufflink from of textile history, Museum of London Wigginton and Hopwas, Staffordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 82 Gilmore, T, and Worrell, S, 2018 A Roman figurine from Elford, Staffordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 68–9 Glenn, H, 2018 A late Iron Age/early Roman strap junction or harness fitting from Shenstone, Staffordshire West Midlands Archaeol 59, 74-6 Glenn, H, 2018 A stone axe-hammer from the Staffordshire Moorlands, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 77–8 Osborne, V, 2018 A new order of things: The Pre- Raphaelite legacy and art in Birmingham, in Victorian radicals: from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts movement, American Federation of Arts and DelMonico/ Prestel, 70–87 Reavill, P, 2018: Finds tray: Roman silver brooch from Shropshire, Current Archaeol 343, 13 Reavill, P, (ed), 2018 West Midlands Archaeol 59 Reavill, P, 2018 A later Iron Age decorative fitting from Eaton Bishop Herefordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 43–4 Reavill, P, 2018 An inscribed Iron Age gold stater from Sutton, Herefordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 49 Reavill, P, 2018 An Iron Age uninscribed silver unit from Wigmore, Herefordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 49 Reavill, P, 2018 A complete Neolithic polished axehead from Broseley, Shropshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 52 Reavill, P, 2018 A Bronze Age Palstave from Clunbury, Shropshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 53–4 Reavill, P, and Critchon, A, 2018 A cosmetic mortar of later Iron Age or Roman date from Brobury and Monnington, Herefordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 42–3 Reavill P, and Glenn, H, 2018 An early Bronze Age flat axe from Shifnal, Shropshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 61–2 Reavill P, and Glenn, H, 2018 A later Iron Age scabbard chape fragment from Shifnal, Shropshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 62–3 Reavill, P, Page, R and Brown, P, 2018 A medieval silver long cross penny of Henry II from Yatton, Herefordshire, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 50 Wajid, S and Hall, K, Decolonising interpretation, Association for Heritage Interpretation Journal 23, 1, summer 2018, 37–40 Worrell, S, 2018 Polden Hill brooches recorded from the For more information please get in touch: West Midlands region by the British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme, West Midlands Archaeol 59, 9–20 0121 348 8000 (This article was enabled by a grant from West Midlands [email protected] Council for British Archaeology to the West Midlands For more details about our venues, visit: PAS as part of the West Midlands Polden Hill Research BIRMINGHAMMUSEUMS.ORG.UK Project) Charity number: 1147014 Company number: 07737797

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