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Interesting short film. I think most people of a certain age remember long slow Sundays. Some people loved it, others hated it. Such is the way of life

You can visit us every Friday from 12.30-2.30 for our Explore the Store sessions. It's a self guided tour through our warehouse & transport section where you'll get to see all manner of random objects. Prices and booking details are here birminghammuseums.org.uk/museum-collect…

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!

birminghammuseums.org.uk/museum-collect… 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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

#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

#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

#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

#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? 🤔

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

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

#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 birminghammuseums.org.uk/schools/museum…

birminghammuseums.org.uk/museum-collect… 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

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

#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