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Connecting with arts and culture

A more surprising region for arts and culture is hard to imagine. The wealth of art and cultural treasures is breathtaking, and is an exciting part of the region’s heritage.

Would you like to dip into the past, learn and reflect? Do you enjoy current trends, innovative or thought-provoking art? For education or enjoyment, you will find great choice across the region to suit all interests and ages.

Be inspired by the Heart of England

There is so much to marvel at in a region that boasts:

  • the world’s largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings

  • the prestigious Garman Ryan collection

  • work by artists as diverse as William Blake, Van Gogh and Picasso

  • the largest collection of contemporary Pop Art outside London

  • the most art centres of any region outside London 

  • over 200 museums and art galleries

World-class art and culture in the Heart of England

Beautiful art gallery in the West Midlands

The region is home to an impressive and ever-growing range of venues and activities. Here are just some of the collections you can explore:

  • New Art Gallery Walsall – an art gallery of outstanding excellence

  • Barber Institute of Fine Arts – ‘Gallery of the Year’ (Good Britain Guide 2004)

  • Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery – from the city’s thriving jewellery heritage to its stately Jacobean past

  • Royal Air Force Museum in Cosford – 80 years of aviation history

  • Wolverhampton Art Gallery – 300 years of art, from Georgian paintings to contemporary pieces

  • Museum of Brewing Burton-upon-Trent – a taste of times gone by in Britain's brewing capital

  • National Motorcycle Museum – the finest and largest of its kind in the world

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