• There are 214 museum in the region (73 local authority; 92 independent; 18 National Trust; 10 Regimental; 6 University; 5 English Heritage; 1 National; 7 company; 2 private).There is one mobile museum.
• 6 museum services are responsible for 21 outstanding Designated Collections
• Museums hold 287 special collections.
• There are 5,571,723 objects within museum collections and an additional 1,468,102 archive objects within museums(grand total of 7,039,825).
• The West Midlands museum Hub is led by Birmingham and also comprises Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Ironbridge and Coventry.
• Registered museums employ c2,500 staff and have the support of c3,500 volunteers.
• In 2003 museums in the West Midlands attracted 5.6 million visits.

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