Toby Watley, Director of Collections and Estates, of the Birmingham Museums Trust speaks to us about the exciting developments at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2025 - plus walk through tour of the major attraction
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00:00Hello, I'm Toby Whatley, Director of Collections and Estates for Birmingham Museums Trust.
00:05I'm standing in our Birmingham History Galleries here at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
00:10We've just reopened them. They've been closed since COVID back in 2020, so we're delighted to get them reopened again.
00:18The original project cost about £8.9 million, so a massive refurbishment of this entire top floor.
00:25And they originally opened back in 2012, and we developed them with the people of Birmingham,
00:31really to tell the story of the city back from its origins in medieval days, right the way up to the city we know today,
00:37and how it's changed in terms of its population, the industries it now supports,
00:43and the different stories that are being told across the city.
00:46So this is a great place to come. There's about 900 objects on display, all totally unique,
00:5110 new stories about this city and the people that have lived in here over really the last 900 years.
01:21Of course, no one thought that it would detect anything at all.
01:33...in 30 centuries. Four to six weeks each year must be detected for sickness and darkness of trade
01:39on the government of the government of the government.
01:42The rights should quantify the benefits of the sickness.
01:45...in 30.30 years of the sicknesses and depression ...
01:59...and so that they should actually be detected.
02:01...and so that they should be detected with many people.
02:04...and so that they should not be detected with them.
02:08...and so that they should be detected with the結果.
02:11So the next takes place for that, and then...