Birmingham Children's Lives exhibition

Birmingham Museum will be hosting a new exhibition from March 24th to June 10th 2012, entitled Children's Lives. From the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery page:

Children’s Lives will be a fascinating insight into Birmingham’s history, as well as a key resource for understanding the changing nature of childhood locally, nationally and internationally. Photographs, archive documents, costumes, artwork and objects will bring to life more than 300 years of history, with collections drawn from Designated and nationally acclaimed collections held by Birmingham Archives & Heritage (BA&H), BMAG and the Media Archive of Central England.

For further details visit www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1734 and www.connectinghistories.org.uk/childrenslivesinfo.asp.

(With thanks to BM_AG on Twitter)

Chris

Wrexham Council aids Royal Welch Fusiliers collection

Wrexham Council has offered a financial lifeline of £15,000 to the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum Trust to temporarily preserve its historic collections at Kings Mill visitor centre. A long term aim is to locate the collection at Wrexham Museum, although funding has as yet to be secured for this.

The BBC has the full story at www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16155468

(With thanks to Tweet2Wales on Twitter)

Chris