Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to remain closed throughout 2021 to allow for essential work
The reopening will be launched with a transformation of BMAGs iconic Round Room.
BIRMINGHAM
.-Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery will remain closed throughout 2021 while essential electrical upgrade work of Birminghams Council House complex takes place. While the building is closed Birmingham Museums Trust will continue to share items and stories from Birminghams collections with audiences in a variety of exciting and engaging ways both online and in the community.
BMAG is currently closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic but plans for reopening in time for the 2022 Commonwealth Games are already underway. Next year also marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of Birminghams collection and in celebration of this key moment, when the eyes of the world will be on the city, Birmingham Museums will use this opportunity to re-invigorate its collection re-interpreting it for the 2
Here are Alabama’s 2020 Entertainers of the Year
Updated Jan 05, 2021;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
Among AL.com s Entertainers of the Year in 2020 are (clockwise from top left) Charles Barkley, Madalen MIlls, the Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema and Ashley Monroe. (AL.com / Getty Images / Madalen Mills / Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema)
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Check out these Alabama people and movements that made significant cultural contributions locally, regionally and nationally in 2020, especially during a global pandemic that forced so many unforeseen changes in their respective industries and a social justice movement that informed and enhanced the pop culture conversation.
Charles Barkley: The funniest guy in the steam room
Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black woman s death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 300,000; racial unrest that created division in across many communities and a presidential election that was over until it wasn’t. And there was plenty of more to a year that goes down as one of the most memorable in recent history. Here’s some of what happened.