College of Arts and Law facilities

• The Department of Film and Creative Writing's state-of-the-art film facilities include studio spaces, editing suites, and language labs. High-end camera and audio recording equipment allows for unbridled creativity. 
• Our Birmingham Transformative Humanities Lab provides future-focused facilities that enable cutting-edge research at the Humanities/Science frontier, including VR, motion capture, EEG brain monitoring, eye tracking, behavioural observation and participatory research.

Birmingham hosts what are arguably the finest facilities for Music in a university in the UK. They encompass cutting edge performance, rehearsal, and research spaces, including concert halls, practice rooms, dedicated spaces for early music, and studios for recording and electronic music composition. 

• Department of Music facilities

From virtual reality headsets to motion capture equipment, our Birmingham Transformative Humanities Lab provides all the tools you need to create immersive and augmented reality experiences.

• Find out more about our immersive arts research and pioneering, global role in the emerging industry.

Our dedicated Birmingham Transformative Humanities Lab podcasting suites come equipped with professional-quality recording and editing equipment.

We have two fully-equipped and flexible studios, featuring theatrical lighting and professional sound systems – ideal for performance, rehearsal and experimentation. There is also access to sound and video editing suites, podcasting and content creation studios, with our theatrical resources and specialist production staff on hand to consult, teach and advise.

Our University Collections are a treasure trove of artworks, inventions and discoveries. You’ll find modern and contemporary art by artists including Eduardo Paolozzi, Vanley Burke and Barbara Hepworth. Historic rarities such as an Egyptian Canopic jar with its original preserved contents. Ground-breaking technologies like one of the world's first proton synchrotron accelerators (an early precursor to CERN's Large Hadron Collider).

• The Archaeology Collection holds over 2000 objects from European, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian cultures. The collection offers an important opportunity to engage with and learn from the material culture of the ancient world.
  
  
• The Eton Myers Collection of Egyptian Antiquities is on loan to the University of Birmingham. With a range of over 500 ancient Egyptian objects such as shabti figures, amulets and pottery spanning thousands of years of Egyptian history from the Palaeolithic to the Graeco-Roman period, the collection has been used for teaching with the College of Arts and Law and for research purposes.
  
  
• The Environmental Archaeology collection includes both the Gorham and Girling collections of British Coleoptera (beetles), The Historic England / CAHA bone collection bones consisting of around 500 mammals and bird skeletons and a moderately sized archaeobotany plant collection.
  
  
• The African Collection celebrates extensive cultural traditions and artistic expression through a range of media such as woodcarving, metalwork, jewellery, pottery, weaving, basketry, textiles and fashion, paintings and works on paper, alongside domestic and religious objects. 
  
  
• Learn more about the University Collections

Our state-of-the-art mock courtroom facilities at the Birmingham Law School allow students to participate in practical advocacy skills training sessions, learning to debate, negotiate and interview clients.

• Our moot room and advocacy training

Our Interpreting Suite has been developed specifically for interpreter training, including Televic’s award-winning Interpreter Desk, delegate units with headphones and microphones, a table camera to stream and record delegate/conference speeches, and booth cameras to record interpreting performance.

The Suite provides eight interpreting booths, each of which seats two students, allowing them to work side-by-side as interpreters and recreate a real-world interpreting experience.

As well as accommodating 16 delegate positions within the Suite itself, it is connected to the Law Moot Room next door which has been fitted with audience participation equipment, giving students an opportunity to interpret meetings.

• Our Interpreting Suite

The Barber Institute houses an exceptional Fine Art Library. This contains holdings of contemporary History of Art books and periodicals, specialist collections of sales catalogues dating back to the early 18th century, and significant collections of historic books and periodicals from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Barber also has and outstanding art collection and one of the most impressive collections of ancient, medieval and modern coins in the world.

• Facilities in Art History, Curating and Visual Studies

The Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing is founded on the premise that computer methods are now fundamental to every stage of the editorial process. We use digital tools to locate and view the original materials; to transcribe them into electronic form; to compare the texts and to analyse the patterns of variation; and we publish them electronically. ITSEE projects range from electronic editions of a single manuscript to large-scale investigation and analysis of complex textual traditions and the development of innovative tools and platforms for digital editing.

• ITSEE website

The Shakespeare Institute Library contains about 60,000 volumes, archives, manuscripts, and audio-visual collections relating to the study of Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. The collections cover literary, cultural, political, religious, and social history of the era.

• Shakespeare Institute website