Objects in cages at the Birmingham Museum Collection Centre
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It's Birmingham Heritage Week again, but I'm not likely to go anywhere and most events are online. So lets look back to the Birmingham Museum Collection Centre from two open days I've been to in the past. First room you look around has all these cages with objects to look at. But hard to get your lens behind the bars if you have a big camera. Anything from masks to old cameras.
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When you first arrive at 25 Dollman Street in Nechells, the Birmingham Museum Collection Centre. The first room you go into has objects in cages in both the ground floor and the first floor. When taking photos, it is hard to get your lens behind the bars (don't even try), to get an image of the object behind. Many objects from the collection of the Council (now Birmingham Museums Trust), where there is no room at the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery or at other City museum venues such as Thinktank. Unless they go on a special exhibition at BM & AG.
Open Day on Sunday 13th May 2012
Old toy cars. Possibly part of the collection of Chad Valley of Harborne.
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Old helmets. Could be old Policemen helmets.
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Ancient Chinese (or Japanese) ceremonial armour .
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Very old clocks. Scales at the front.
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Model engines.
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Collection of old cameras. Pollaroid and Kodak (I think).
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Who knows maybe one day your camera will end up in here? Halina in the middle.
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Cameras with wooden bodies. These could be well over a century old.
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There was a lot of these old cameras.
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A coat of arms shield.
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Was plenty of old dolls in the cages as well.
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More vintage car toys and motorbikes. Some of them ended up in an exhibition at Thinktank. Chad Valley of Harborne.
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Up on the first floor. Miniature bust of King Henry VIII and King Charles II.
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This was a Ceramic figure of a man.
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Open Day on Sunday 16th September 2018
This was on the last day of Birmingham Heritage Week. Where I caught a vintage bus from Snow Hill Queensway to BMCC.
Carrier bag from The Birmingham Shopping Centre. This was what later became The Pallasades (now Grand Central Birmingham).
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Cadbury chocolate bars. Dairy Milk, Whole Nut and Fruit & Nut. Probably decades old, so don't eat them!
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Was also a couple of old boxes of Cadbury's Roses Chocolates.
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Lamp sculptures. Candle stick holders.
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Another old clock.
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Maquette of the Forward sculpture that used to be in Centenary Square from 1991 until it was burnt by an arsonist in 2003.
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Luckily this original Forward maquette by Raymond Mason survives in the cages at BMCC.
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Death Mask of Oliver Cromwell.
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Bronze bust of Frederic Lord Leighton by Thomas Brock.
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Sri Lanka Masks.
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There was a wide variety of these Sri Lankan masks in the collection.
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This Sri Lankan mask at the back of the cage was quite big.
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In here was a ZX Spectrum - ZX Microdrive.
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Also a couple of joysticks with a keyboard and mouse.
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This is only a small selection. For more photos check out my album on Flickr.
Photos taken by Elliott Brown.
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