Paintings and objects on loan and where to see them

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Whilst infrastructure works continue at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the building is closed, we have lent a considerable number of our finest paintings to other galleries and museums in order to provide increased public access to our extensive collection. Here is where you can see them:

The Staffordshire Hoard

Can be found on display in 2 different locations

  1. On display at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent.
  2. On display at Tamworth Castle, in the exhibition, ‘Battle and Tribute’.

Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blind Girl by John Everett Millais
A Saint of the Eastern Church (formerly called A Greek Acolyte) by Simeon Solomon
Lilium Auratum by John Frederick Lewis

On display at the Barber Institute in the exhibition Seeing Scents: The Pre-Raphaelites from 11 October 2024 – 26 January 2025.

Pygmalion by Donald Rodney

On display in the exhibition ‘Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker’ at Nottingham Contemporary from 28 September 2024 – 5 January 2025 and Whitechapel Gallery from 12 February - 18 May 2025.

Selection of textiles

  • 1939M252, Quilted jacket of bright blue silk brocade, unknown maker
  • 1939M268, Prayer mat showing flowering tree, May Morris
  • 1939M287, Textile panel embroidered with repeats of a large tulip head motif in orange, magenta, blue and green, unknown maker
  • 1939M288, Turkish towel embroidered with twisted silks, metal bands and metal wound on silk in double darning stitch, unknown maker
  • 1939M292, Pillow cover from the collection of William Morris, embroidered with scrolling floral design, peonies in shades of pink, yellow and green, unknown maker
  • 1939M747, Piece of Persian embroidered woman’s trousering fabric from the collection of William Morris, unknown maker 1939M748, 18th Century Turkish bed cover embroidered in large flower and leaf motif, from the collection of William Morris, unknown maker
  • 1939M777, Fragment of silk tissue, from the collection of William Morris, Persian
  • 1939M778, Fragment of silk tissue, from the collection of William Morris, Persian
  • 1939M779, velvet decorated with tulip head design used as a pall at William Morris’ funeral, unknown maker
  • 1939M780, Cushion cover, unknown maker

On display in the exhibition 'William Morris & Art from the Islamic World' at the William Morris Gallery from 9 November 2024 - 9 March 2025.

Selection of Bicycles

A large selection of bicycles from the collection are on display at STEAMHouse, Birmingham City University for their Cycles of Innovation exhibition (19 July 2024 – 18 July 2027).

  • 1958S00978 BSA Gents Bicycle, BSA, Small Heath, Birmingham.
  • 1959S01087 Gents Safety Bicycle, BSA, Small Heath, Birmingham.
  • 1964S01828 New Hudson Safety Bicycle, The New Hudson Cycle Co. Ltd, Deritend, Birmingham.
  • 1968S02226.00001 Bicycle, Quadrant Chainless, Quadrant Cycle Co., Sheepcote Street, Birmingham.
  • 1968S02235.00001 New Hudson Twin Tube Tandem, The New Hudson Cycle Co. Ltd, Deritend, Birmingham.
  • 1973S02669.00001 BSA 3 Speed Bicycle, BSA, Small Heath, Birmingham.
  • 1974S02796.00001 Gents New Hudson Bicycle, The New Hudson Cycle Co. Ltd, Deritend, Birmingham.
  • 1979S03409 Sun Sports Model Bicycle, Sun Cycle & Fittings Co., Brook Street, Aston, Birmingham.
  • 1984S03743 Sun 'Wasp' Bicycle, Sun Cycle & Fittings Co., Brook Street, Aston, Birmingham.
  • 1988S04090.00001 Raleigh Randonneur Touring Bicycle, Raleigh, Nottingham; frame by T. I. Reynolds, Tyseley, Birmingham.
  • 1988S04117 BSA Ladies Bicycle, BSA, Small Heath, Birmingham.
  • 1988S04123.1 Hercules 'Blenheim' Bicycle, Hercules Cycle & Motor Co., Aston, Birmingham.
  • 1989S04169 Phillips Ladies Single Speed Bicycle, Phillips Cycles Limited, Smethwick, Sandwell.
  • 2002D00192 Green BSA Bicycle, BSA, Small Heath, Birmingham.