18/01/2024
Fellow Reader,
On January 15th, I had a great opportunity to visit The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, which jointly acquired the Staffordshire Hoard with the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2009. While Birmingham’s half is still out of public view due to its temporary closure since 2021, I took the opportunity to see Stoke-On-Trent’s half with Toby Watley, Director of Collections, and gain some insight into what it was like at Birmingham Museum at the time of the Staffordshire Hoard being found and put on display.
Rather than walls of text, I thought to keep this entry simple and show a visual diary of the trip:
The Spitfire and Fine Art collection:
All my love,
Mads
Mads Washbrook 