Museum Collection Centre

Holds Birmingham Museums’ stored collections under one roof. We're retiring our X account, instead find us on Facebook (MuseumCollectionsCentre).

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

#Museum30 today is #Challenge It's a challenging time for everyone & the heritage sector is no different. How can you help? Support your local museums, visit them, donate & if you can't (we know times are hard), tell your friends, like that social media post, spread the word

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

Todays #Museum30 is #Joy We certainly get a lot of joy opening the MCC to the public on our Explore the Store sessions & on Open Days. We showing off our massive collection of stuff (technical term) & we hope to be able to have more tours & events in the future. Watch this space

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

https://t.co/qks4b9febp Still a few tickets available for our Explore the Store session this Friday so book tickets via the link. Be aware that the warehouse gets rather cold at this time of year so make sure you wrap up warm. All tickets must be booked in advance

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

#Museum30 today is #Learning If a school can't go to a museum, we take a museum to a school! Our learning team distribute The Museum in a Box service to schools in the area to engage, stimulate, support & enrich their learning. More info here https://t.co/pnWVghwW3j

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

Day 11 of #Museum30 is #Transit We don't just store and display artefacts here at the MCC- we also conserve and loan items out. With the reopening of BMAG, we've had a flurry of activity recently with items coming and going, all being expertly cleaned, conserved and catalogued

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

@benbobjr https://t.co/U1Zk74HVOJ Explore the Store sessions every Friday between 12.30-2.30. Follow the link for all the details

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

#Museum30 today is #Storage Do we have storage here at the MCC? Erm, a bit.......

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

@mikemcsharry Happy to oblige

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

#Museum30 today is #Green Here is our record breaking Austin A90 Atlantic coupe that achieved 63(!) records at the Indianapolis Production Car Endurance event in 1949. Maybe it was filled up by our green petrol pump. Was it even built with our green mechanical hammer? 🤔

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

#Museum30 today is #Fragmented We have quite a lot of fragments here at the MCC including bone, wood, fabric, pottery & wallpaper. Part of of our job here is to clean, conserve, document & where possible, repair these fragments & hopefully make them whole again

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

#Museum30 today is #Glow and here we have a headlamp which would have provided quite a glow from the last remaining DV4 electric dustcart. This plied the streets of Brum between 1938 & 1971 & it was charged using electricity taken from burning the waste it collected

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

#Museum30 today is #Habitat We’re fairly industrial in this part of Brum so the few trees we do have are vitally important for the crows, wagtails & robins we get hopping around. A far cry from what it was like 250yrs ago when the site was near Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. See link

[Birmingham Archives & Collections @TheIronRoom]

#HistoryOfBirmingham Prompted by an enquiry from the public, we’re sharing this illustration of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, Duddeston from the mid-18th century until closure in 1850. Read more here: https://t.co/rXksFNetnS. Image Ref - WK/S2/86 @LibraryofBham @elaineamitchell

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

Day 3 of #museum30 is #Fabric We have many costumes, clothing & fabrics here at the MCC. We study, clean, conserve and even loan out to exhibitions

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

For day 2 of #museum30 the word is #Introduction
We're an accredited museum holding over 80% of a collection of around a million items for BMT. MCC also cares for, researches & conserves artefacts both here as well as those on display at our other sites

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

It's #museum30 and day 1 is #YourMuseum We are the Museum Collection Centre in Birmingham, England and we hold over 800,000 objects. Some of which you can see every Friday

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

Happy Halloween, Samhain, All Saints Eve. Are you doing anything spooky? Or are you just going to eat all of the sweets you bought for the trick or treaters and claim that they never came round? Here's a raven in honour of the master of the macabre- Edgar Allen Poe #Nevermore

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

It's a good job its not nearly Halloween as opening up in the dark might be a tad scary..............😱

[Gracie Price @magnifyzoology]

This year's prompts for #museum30 are here! Which are you most excited about?

The challenge starts this Friday so it's time to get planning...

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

https://t.co/U1Zk74HVOJ Only a couple of tickets left for this Fridays Explore the Store so grab them via this link whilst you can.
Explore the Store runs every Friday between 12.30-2.30pm so they'll be plenty more opportunities if you can't make this Friday

[Museum Collection Centre @BMTMCC]

Happy Friday everyone! Hope we all feel as happy as this guy in the painting "A Man with Post Horn and Glass of Wine in Hand" by William John Wainwright.
By the look on his face he's DEFINITELY thinking about drinking the port through that horn!