The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is on Chamberlain Square in the Business Quarter of central Birmingham.

It was built as an extension to the Council House in 1881-85 and incorporates the Big Brum clock tower and a double portico with a triangular pediment and sculptural reliefs.

The interior contains galleries dedicated to (1) antiquities (2) applied art (3) coins & medals (4) world cultures (5) local and social history.

New galleries are being built for the Staffordshire Hoard.

The art gallery features major works by Old Masters, Impressionists and pre-Raphaelites.