Junior Patron Individual $60 ($115 - 2 years)
Junior Patron membership is perfect for young professionals (21+). The “JPs” not only support the Museum but have lots of fun doing so…
Dual / Family $70 ($130 - 2 years)
Dual / Family members get the same great benefits of Individual membership, but for two…
Individual $50 ($95 - 2 years)
Individual members enjoy special rates on classes and programs, a free pass to ticketed exhibitions, discounts at the Museum Store and Oscar’s, and more…
Out of Town $35 ($65 - 2 years)
Address must be 100 miles outside of Birmingham. Benefits include:
- One free pass to any ticketed exhibition
- Special rates on Museum classes and programs
- Invitation to members-only previews and events
- Museum Store and Oscar's at the Museum Café dicsounts (10%)
- Free or discounted admission to over 90 museums across the Southeast
- Subscription to the quarterly newsletter
- Fully tax deductible
Student $20
Must have current student ID. Benefits include:
- One free pass to any ticketed exhibition
- Special rates on Museum classes and programs
- Invitation to members-only previews and events
- Museum Store and Oscar's at the Museum Café discounts (10%)
- Free or discounted admission to over 90 museums across the Southeast
- Fully tax deductible
New Guide to the Collection Now Available
As the Museum enters its 60th year, we celebrate the release of a new collection handbook, Birmingham Museum of Art: Guide to the Collection. This 272-page catalog is an outstanding survey of four thousand years of art from one of America’s leading regional museums.
Clarence B. Hanson, Jr. Library
Open to the public Wednesday 1-4 and by appointment.
Click here to access the Library's online catalog.
Located on the first floor of the Museum, the Hanson Library is one of the most comprehensive art research libraries in the southeastern United States. Library holdings include over 35,000 items focusing on objects and styles in the Museum's permanent collection and traveling exhibitions. The Library holds a broad range of research materials including general art reference works, auction catalogues, artist files, periodicals, indexes, exhibition catalogs, and databases. The Chellis Wedgwood Collection, housed in the Lucille Stewart Beeson Rare Book Room, is the largest and most comprehensive special collection in the world related to Josiah Wedgwood and his manufactures, and makes the Library the U.S. center for the study of Wedgwood. Among these holdings are letters from John Flaxman and Benjamin West, and Sir William Hamilton's Collection of Engravings from Antique Vases, known as the Hamilton Folios, the first color plate books in the history of art.
Clarence Bloodworth Hanson, Jr. (1908-1983) was publisher of The Birmingham News and a Birmingham Museum of Art Board member for twenty-four years. An avid bibliophile and collector of rare books, including a fine private press library, Mr. Hanson brought a keen love of history and art to his duties at the Museum. In his memory, Mr. Hanson’s wife Elizabeth Fletcher Hanson (1910-2001) endowed the Clarence B. Hanson, Jr. Library for the benefit of the Birmingham Museum of Art and its visitors.
Due to the unique nature of many items in the collection, patrons may only use Library materials on the premises. A photocopier is available.
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European Glass
The Museum’s collection of European glass, although not large, is designed to complement the larger collection of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts objects. Ranging from the seventeenth century, the collection spans almost three hundred years of glassmaking and illustrates the techniques of engraving, etching, cutting, and cased, or cameo, glass.
English Furniture
The Museum’s collection of English furniture is small, but reflects the late eighteenth-century Neoclassical style, so strongly represented in the English ceramics that share the same exhibition gallery.
