This list of museums in the West Midlands, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
| Name | Image | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | Historic house | 17th century Jacobean-style mansion with period rooms featuring furniture, paintings, textiles and metalwork from the collections of the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | |||
| Birmingham | Transport | Closed, pending relocation | |||
| Sandwell | Industry | website, collection of weighing machines and artefacts, located at the Avery Weigh-Tronix headquarters | |||
| Wolverhampton | Historic house | 18th-century house, ground floor furnished to reflect the Edwardian era, upper floor displays of important local people, industries, decorative arts, two Victorian period rooms, gardens | |||
| Birmingham | Art | Art gallery and concert hall, collection includes British art, French impressionism and post-impressionism, sculpture, portrait miniatures, decorative arts, coins, part of the University of Birmingham | |||
| Solihull | Local | website, local history | |||
| Wolverhampton | Art | Contemporary crafts and decorative arts | |||
| Birmingham | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, city's last surviving court of back-to-back houses, reflects life from the 1840s to 1970s | |||
| Birmingham | Military | Site for testing small arms and ammunition, features a museum with small arms and ammunition and the history of their development, open by appointment | |||
| Birmingham | Multiple | Art, local history, decorative arts, archaeology, coins, costumes, ceramics | |||
| Sandwell | Historic house | 18th century period cottage, boyhood home of Francis Asbury, the first American Methodist Bishop | |||
| Dudley | Living | Recreated 19th and early 20th century industrial village with historic buildings moved from other sites, includes trams and other transport vehicles, fun fair, historic shops and industry displays | |||
| Birmingham | Historic house | Late 16th century Tudor timber-framed farmhouse, branch museum of the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery | |||
| Birmingham | Food | History of chocolate and the Cadbury confectionery company | |||
| Birmingham | Natural history | Nature centre used for environmental education | |||
| Coventry | Horology | website, planned museum about watches and watch-making, currently provide exhibitions | |||
| Coventry | Music | website, museum highlighting the musical heritage of Coventry | |||
| Coventry | Transportation | British-made road transport including cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles | |||
| Birmingham | Art | Arts centre for Black British and British Asian arts | |||
| Solihull | Local | website, local history | |||
| Sandwell | Historic house | Victorian gentleman's house furnished in period style | |||
| Coventry | Multiple | Art, local history, culture, natural history, city's medieval, Victorian and modern history | |||
| Birmingham | Art | Contemporary art | |||
| Birmingham | Art | Contemporary art gallery, part of the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts | |||
| Coventry | Automotive | website, historic Jaguar cars and racing cars | |||
| Dudley | Textiles | Historic and contemporary lace and lace-related artefacts | |||
| Dudley | glass | [1] | |||
| Birmingham | Natural history | Fossils, minerals, rocks, operated by the University of Birmingham | |||
| Walsall | Locks | Dedicated to a lock-making family and locally made locks | |||
| Birmingham | Art | Theatre, Cinema, Cafe and Public Space with Exhibit Gallery | |||
| Coventry | Transportation | Aircraft Museum including Frank Whittle Jet Heritage Centre | |||
| Birmingham | Historic site | Historic jewellery-making factory, branch museum of the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery | |||
| Solihull | Transportation | British motorcycles | |||
| Walsall | Art | ||||
| Birmingham | Mill | website, 18th century watermill, located in New Hall Valley Country Park | |||
| Sandwell | Historic house | Late 16th century half-timbered Yeoman's farmhouse with Tudor and Jacobean furniture | |||
| Birmingham | Industry | History of the pen making industry in Birmingham including the companies, different kinds of pens, early typewriters and Braille machines, writing in general | |||
| Birmingham | Art | Artist-run contemporary art gallery and event space | |||
| Coventry | Archaeology | website, artifacts and history of St Mary's Priory | |||
| Dudley | Art | Former glassworks, exhibits of historic and contemporary glass, glass-making workshops | |||
| Birmingham | Art | Gallery exhibits of members' works | |||
| Birmingham | Mill | 18th century water mill used for grinding corn and later producing metal, includes 19th century bakehouse, exhibits on local resident J. R. R. Tolkien, branch museum of the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery | |||
| Birmingham | Historic | Two Tudor period timber-framed houses | |||
| Birmingham | Historic house | Late 18th century period Georgian home of industrialist Matthew Boulton, branch museum of the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery | |||
| Solihull | Art | website | |||
| Birmingham | Science | Themes include future technology, innovation, space travel, current technology and scientific understanding on everyday life, natural history, biology, city's industrial and transportation history | |||
| Sandwell | Local | website, located in the town library, local history, industry, canals, social history | |||
| Birmingham | Railway | Railway depot, workshops, engines and artefacts, viewing on open days | |||
| Birmingham | Art | Gallery for media arts | |||
| Walsall | Industry | Former Victorian leather factory, history of the local leather and saddle-making trades | |||
| Coventry | Art | Multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick, events in contemporary and classical music, drama, dance, comedy, films and visual art | |||
| Sandwell | Multiple | Fine art, decorative arts including Ruskin Pottery, toys and games, local history | |||
| Birmingham | Law enforcement | Uniforms, vehicles, photographs, badges, whistles, memorabilia, history of police work in the region | |||
| Wolverhampton | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Victorian period manor with Arts & Crafts interiors and Pre-Raphaelite art | |||
| Wolverhampton | Art | Collection includes fine art and decorative arts from the Georgian and Victorian eras, Pop Art, works from Northern Ireland, Asian decorative arts | |||