Oak House is furnished with Tudor and Jacobean furniture and has some extremely fine 17th century wall panelling. You will also find an array of replica items which really make the house come alive.

Adjacent to both the Birmingham New and Old Main Lines, the Galton Valley Canal Heritage Museum in Smethwick is ideally place to explore the local canals and their history. As well as the museum building on Brasshouse Lane we also look after the New Smethwick Pumping...

Situated in Victoria Park, the Lodge was opened as a Heritage Centre in 2003 by the Smethwick Heritage Centre Trust. On display are examples of products manufactured in Smethwick by many of its famous companies which have now closed. Also displayed are various items...

Wednesbury Museum is Sandwell's Museum and Art Gallery. It is purpose built Victorian Art Gallery, housing collections which include fine art paintings, applied art, old toys as well as one of the world's largest collections of Ruskin pottery.

Tipton Community Heritage Centre is now located within Tipton Library. Included in the centre are temporary displays covering various aspects of Tipton’s industrial and social history, along with information about the canals - which led to Tipton being called...

Soho House was the elegant home of industrialist and enterpreneur Matthew Boulton from 1766 to 1809. Carefully restored, this fashionable Georgian house features period room interiors with fine collections of ormolu, silver, furniture and paintings.

Discover a fascinating world when you visit this urban heritage park in the shadow of Dudley Castle at the heart of the Black Country. Visitors are transported back in time from the modern exhibition halls to the canal-side village, where costumed demonstrators and...

Enjoy a guided tour around a real jewellery factory little changed since the early part of the last century, including a demonstration of jewellery making techniques at the jeweller’s bench. For more than eighty years Smith and Pepper produced jewellery from this...

During the 19th Century, 75% of everything written in the world was with a ‘Birmingham’ pen. Birmingham was at the forefront of this trade until it declined in the 1950’s with the invention of the biro and fountain pen. At one time there were about 100...

There is something for everyone at Dudley Museum & Art Gallery. If you are a teacher there are school visits. If you are an art lover we have art exhibitions. And if you are a budding geologist, we have a huge collection of fossils.