Birmingham Museum Collection Centre
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| Location | Nechells, Birmingham, England |
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| Type | Museum store |
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The Museum Collection Centre (MCC) in Nechells, Birmingham, England is a 1.5 hectare building that holds 80 per cent of Birmingham Museums Trust's stored collections under one roof. It is one of the UK's largest museum stores.[1] Among the thousands of objects stored there are steam engines (many of which are from the former Birmingham Museum of Science and Industry), sculptures, a collection of Austin, Rover and MG motor cars, a red phone box and a Sinclair C5.
It opens to the public monthly, or by arrangement. There are also other open days, which tend to take place during the Spring and Summer Bank Holidays.[2]
The Museum Collection Centre is also home to The Museum in a Box service which enables schools and community groups to borrow original artefacts.
In September 2014 trainee curator Lukas Large uncovered a taxidermied specimen of the long extinct North American passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) in the collection.[3]
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