Learning
Sounding Images
A selection of the Barber’s most iconic paintings – as you’ve never heard them before
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Students Family Barber Home For Adults
Barber Home
Our collection, your place
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Learning
Covid–19 (Coronavirus)
The Barber is closed until further notice - please check this website for updates
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For Adults
TUESDAY TALKS
Enjoy our brand-new programme of mini podcasts
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Research & Resources
COIN STUDY ROOM
The Barber Institute is home to one of the finest collections of Roman, Byzantine, Sasanian and Medieval Islamic coins in the world, numbering more than 15,000 items.
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For Adults
Sounds of Nocturnes
Hear an original composition created for Barber Lates
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For Adults Research & Resources
Bellows Exhibition Website
Bellows and the Body
The Barber's special microsite to accompany the exhibition Bellows and the Body: The Real, the Ideal and the Nude is still live!
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Research & Resources
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
We work with academics, students and professional services teams from across campus to enhance teaching and develop students’ learning
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Research & Resources
BARBER FINE ART LIBRARY
The library is a specialist research level collection of over 50,000 books, exhibition catalogues and sale catalogues on Western art covering most of the major European schools of painting from the early Renaissance to twenty-first century, the history of collecting, and also some Byzantine art.
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THE PRINTS AND DRAWINGS STUDY ROOM
Discover our Prints and Drawings Study Room, which houses our fine collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, comprising more than 1,000 works and six centuries of the draughtsman’s and printmaker’s arts.
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Research & Resources
Arts Award Supporter
Those who are already undertaking Arts Award can meet a range of criteria at the Barber Institute
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