Birmingham Museums Trust is the largest independent charitable trust of museums in the United Kingdom.[1] It runs nine museum sites across the city of Birmingham, including Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) and Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum,[2] with a total of more than 1.1 million visits per year.[3]
The Trust was founded in April 2012 through the merger of the Birmingham City Council-owned Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery and the Thinktank charitable trust.[1] The underlying buildings and collections remain the property of the City Council, who have the final decision on admission charges.[3] Admission to BMAG is free of charge, but there is an admission charge for Thinktank.[3]
As well as the central museum and art gallery, BMAG includes the Birmingham Museum Collection Centre and the distributed museums of Aston Hall, Blakesley Hall, Sarehole Mill, Soho House, Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and Weoley Castle. Thinktank was created from the collection of the City Council's Museum of Science and Industry, Birmingham.[4]
On 24 January 2012 the new trust announced it had received funding from the Arts Council for three years.[5]
The first director of the trust was Ann Sumner, who joined the trust from the University of Birmingham's Barber Institute of Fine Arts, where she had been Director since 2007.[6]
She left after only seven months in January 2013[7] and was replaced by interim director Simon Cane.[8] In July 2013 Ellen McAdam was appointed as the new director.[9] McAdam left in 2020. Sara Wajid and Zak Mensah took on the Director role as co-CEO's in November 2020.[10]
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^"Ann Sumner resigns as director of Birmingham Museums Trust". Museums Association. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
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