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The Collections at Dudley Museum Art Gallery

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Black Country History is a searchable website which allows users to find information about documents, maps, photographs, art works, objects and more held by archives and museums services within the Black Country. Dudley Museums Service are a partner involved in the website and consequently details of the objects held in our collections are available on the site.

Please use Black Country History to discover more about the historic objects and documents cared for by Dudley Museum & Art Gallery.

Calymene

Geological Collection

The most important collection at Dudley Museum is Geology. There are currently two galleries given over to the collection and the very important place that Dudley occupies in the story of the discovery of the science of Geology in the United Kingdom.

The present Geological Collection comprises approximately 15,000 fossil, rock and mineral specimens. Despite its relatively small size the geological collection contains one of the finest assemblages of local material in existence, matched only by collections at the British Geological Survey, Natural History Museum, London and Birmingham Universities.

Percy Shakespeare - A Mulatto

Fine Art Collection

The Fine Art Collection was started in the 1880’s shortly after the opening of the Art Gallery and has been added to continuously ever since. It numbers nearly two thousand works including 250 oil paintings, 750 drawings and watercolours, 450 old engravings and 350 modern prints.

Brooke Robinson Room

 The Brooke Robinson Museum

The Museum contains a miscellaneous collection of 17th, 18th and 19th century British and European paintings, sculpture, furniture and ceramics, together with oriental ceramics, Japanese netsuke and inro, Bilston enamels, commemorative medals, Greek, Roman and Egyptian pottery and personal memorabilia. 

Since 1981 the bulk of the Brooke Robinson Collection has been on display in Dudley Museum and & Art Gallery.

Other Collections

Dudley Museum and Art Gallery is home to a number of smaller miscellaneous collections comprising social history, coins and trade tokens, costume and a collection of birds eggs. They are as follows:

  • The Social History Collection

  • The Coin Collection

  • The Costume Collection

  • The Birds’ Egg Collection

  • The Archaeology Collection

Duncan Edwards Collection

 

The Duncan Edwards & Local Sporting Heroes Gallery currently hosts an exhibition of football memorabilia of Dudley's most famous footballer Duncan Edwards. 

Please see the Duncan Edwards Collection webpage for further information.