Millington said she was concerned that some of the gallery’s artistic heritage was no longer being given the prominence it deserved.<\/p>\n
“The round room, which is when you first come in, it’s architecture is glorious and I feel like the current curation in there doesn’t quite match the space.<\/p>\n
“It used to be jam-packed with academic paintings, old masters, pictures of Greek gods being pulled along in their carriages, and it was a place of absolute wonder. <\/p>\n
“The walls now are white, and the pictures have been hung in a color-coded arrangement, which just seems to be a bit gimmicky and lacking vision.”<\/p>\n
Sara Wajid, co chief executive of Birmingham Museums Trust said visitor numbers had increased since the re-opening and that the museum was working to make its collections accessible to a broader audience.<\/p>\n
“The museum isn’t only for highly educated art historians, and the truth is we have to do a lot of different things.<\/p>\n
“By putting on the Ozzy Osborne working class hero show, we have attracted more visitors than ever, in particular people who’ve never been to the museum before.<\/p>\n
“We should be cultural leaders who are working for the people of Birmingham to get them the best they deserve,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millington said she was concerned that some of the gallery’s artistic heritage was no longer being given the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-462551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}