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THE City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, which celebrates its jubilee this year with a series of special exhibitions, the first of which was opened on February 24, may be said to have had its origin in the presentation of Edward Coleman's painting, “Dead Game”, by a body of subscribers in 1864, an Art Gallery formed in a room of the Free Library being opened to the public in August three years later. In 1870, £1,000 was raised towards the formation of a Museum of Industrial and Decorative Art, but the establishment of a natural history museum was not mooted until 1887. The project received little support as Dr. Sans Cox had already established a collection at Queen's College, which was later handed over to the corporation. In 1904, however, the City Council decided to allocate the upper floor of the new Art Gallery building, facing Congreve Street, for a natural history museum.
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Birmingham Museum. Nature 133, 410–411 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133410d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133410d0