| Planning
Your Visit |
| 1. Decide beforehand
the aims and intended
outcome of the
visit. |
| 2. Choose specific
themes, topics
or areas of enquiry
for your pupils.
Schools Liaison
Department staff
are available to help
you to identify
your aims and
objectives and to suggest
which exhibits to use. |
| 3. Teachers' information
packs and notes
are available on
aspects of the
collections. These
may be photocopied
and used to produce
worksheets suitable
for your pupils. |
| 4. Visit the Museum
yourself, before
you bring your
group. Schools
Liaison teachers
are pleased to accompany teachers on a pre-visit 'walkabout', to work out the
timing, location of exhibits, etc. |
| 5. All visits require
some prior preparation.
Schools Liaison
staff can help
you to plan pre-visit
classroom work;
schools loans,
teachers' notes
and sample worksheets
are available for
this purpose. |
| 6. Plan in advance
if require use
of the Museum lunch
area. This service
is very popular
and needs to be
pre-booked. |
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Map in Acrobat
format (72 KB).
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KEY
1.
Shop
2. Industrial Gallery:
Ceramics, Stained
glass, Glass
3. South Asian
Gallery
4. Edwardian Tearoom
5. Balcony: Ceramics
6. Balcony: Jewellery
7. Balcony: Metalwork
8. Bridge: Oriental
9. Activity area
10. Contemporary
Crafts and Ceramics
11. Temporary
12. How Art Is
Made - activity
area
13. How Art Is
Made
14. Late 19th century
British Art
15. In Touch Gallery
16. Prints and
Drawings
17-19 Pre-Raphaelite
Art
20. Early 20th
Century Art
21. Late 19th/Early
20th Century Art
22. 18th Century
Art
23.
17th Century Art
24. 17th Century Art
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25. 17th Century Art
26. Medieval and Renaissance Art
27. Medieval and Renaissance Art
28. People’s Gallery
29. Balcony
30. Schools Lunch Area
31. Pre-Raphaelite Art
32. Ancient Peoples: Greeks, Romans *
33. ‘A Meeting Ground of Cultures’ *
34. Balcony: Ancient Egypt *
35. Archaeology of Birmingham *
36. Walk through only *
37-42. Explore History Galleries:
37. Wonder Wall *
38. Birmingham Homes
39. Visions of Birmingham
40. Pinto Collection of Wooden Objects
41. Bull Ring Gallery
42. Bull Ring Gallery
43. Contemporary Local History
Waterhall: Late 20th Century Art (post 1945)
School Lunch Area: Gallery 30
*Gallery closed
until July 2008 |
