Birmingham Museum Collection Centre

The Museum Collection Centre (MCC) in Nechells, Birmingham, England is a 1.5 hectare building that holds 80% of Birmingham Museums Trust's stored collections under one roof. It is one of the UK's largest museum stores.[2] Among the thousands of objects stored there are steam engines (many of which are from the former Birmingham Museum of Science and Industry), sculptures, a collection of Austin, Rover and MG motor cars, a red phone box and a Sinclair C5.

Museum Collection Centre
Location in West Midlands
LocationNechells, Birmingham, England
Coordinates52.48554°N 1.87111°W / 52.48554; -1.87111
TypeMuseum store
Visitors1,742 (2018)[1]
Websitewww.birminghammuseums.org.uk/collection/museum-collection-centre

It opens to the public monthly, or by arrangement. There are also other open days, which tend to take place during the Spring and Summer Bank Holidays.[3]

The Museum Collection Centre is also home to The Museum in a Box service which enables schools and community groups to borrow original artefacts.

In September 2014 then-trainee curator Lukas Large uncovered a taxidermied specimen of the long extinct North American passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) in the collection.[4]

References
  1. "ALVA - Association of Leading Visitor Attractions". www.alva.org.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  2. "Open Day at the Museum Collections Centre, Birmingham". Heritage Open Days. Archived from the original on 18 September 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  3. "Museum Collection Centre". Birmingham Museums Trust. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  4. Bentley, David. "Extinct bird rediscovered in Birmingham museum storage building". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 12 February 2015.


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