Visit the Jewellery Quarter Museum
Why not combine a visit to the Cookson Trade Counter with a visit to the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter.
The Museum has a preserved jewellery workshop offering a unique glimpse of working life in Birmingham’s famous Jewellery Quarter. For more than eighty years Smith and Pepper produced jewellery from this workshop, founded in 1899. Explore this extraordinary industrial time capsule on a lively guided tour. Here you will find things left as they were on Smith and Pepper’s last working day.
The museum tells the story of jewellery making in Birmingham. The Jewellery Quarter gained its distinctive identity in the 19th century when Birmingham was known as the ‘Workshop of the World’. Today the city is still very much at the forefront of jewellery manufacture in Britain.
You can get a feel for this great industrial past and modern jewellery trade as you wander through the Quarter’s tight-knit street, lined with jewellery shops, makers’ workshops and distinctive historic factories.
How to find the museum:
Hockley,
Birmingham,
B18 6HA,
Telephone: 0121 554 3598
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March 11th, 2009 at 8:49 am
The museum looks really interesting, wasn’t aware of it either. I’ll definately pay a visit next time I’m in the Midlands, especially considering it’s free.
March 11th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Went last year, nice afternoon out, a must see for those of us interested in jewellery.
March 11th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Visited the museum last year… really interesting, good demonstration and its free! Well worth a visit.
March 12th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Yes the demo was great and the workshop really original. You get a free cup of tea too in the new tea room. Youu can find the voucher in the latest cookson catalogue.
March 18th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Lovely day out!
April 9th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
The museum was a great day out, even the kids were interested in the end – I’d recommend it for one of those spare days in the school holidays!
March 29th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Sounds like a nice activity, I’m up for a visit!