page_title: Birmingham History Galleries
section_title: Your Birmingham
hierarchical_section_title: Birmingham History Galleries / Layout / Your Birmingham
caption_attribution_description: English: One of the HP Sauce signs from the HP Sauce Factory, removed when the building was demolished in 2007.
context_page_description: Birmingham, Its people, Its History is a permanent exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and is also unofficially known as the Birmingham History Galleries. It opened to the public in October 2012 and is located on the third floor of the museum covering an area of 1,040 square metres. The exhibition is divided into five galleries which explore the story of Birmingham, England, and its people over a period of 900 years, from the 12th century to the present day. Over 1,500 objects are displayed from the museum’s designated collections, many of which can be seen on the museum's Flickr account. The £8.9m capital development was principally funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, but other funders also include Arts Council England, The Wolfson Foundation and Birmingham City Council. The galleries were designed by Redman Design of Ilkley, Yorkshire, in collaboration with the curatorial department at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
context_section_description: The last of the five galleries, Your Birmingham, focuses on the city’s development after 1945 and features a series of personal objects donated or loaned from people alongside their oral testimonies. It is split into thematic sub-sections, exploring places, events and people. The stories on display offer insights into what it was like to live and work in the city since 1945 to the present day.  For instance, local poet, Benjamin Zephaniah’s typewriter can be seen in the gallery alongside an oral history in which he talks about growing up and living in Birmingham and how this influenced his career. One of the original HP Sauce Factory signs can also be seen on display in this gallery.  A programme of active collecting is taking place to expand the collection and enable more local people to share and feature their stories and objects in the gallery in the future.
caption: One of the HP Sauce signs from the HP Sauce Factory, removed when the building was demolished in 2007.
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