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on 22 December 2016 as part of cost-cutting efforts. A portion of the museum collection was later moved to the Dudley
Archives centre on Tipton Road, under the name 'Dudley Museum at The Archives', opening to the public in September 2017. The new facility also houses the organisational headquarters
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bequeathed his collection of paintings, furniture, ceramics, enamels and medals to Dudley. The objects were on display in a dedicated room in the museum which contained a miscellaneous collection of 17th, 18th and 19th century
British and European paintings, furniture and ceramics, together with
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fossils, with examples of fossilised corals and shellfish,
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286:and one of the earliest dinosaurs,
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570:"New home for Dudley Museum opens"
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278:Return of the Dinosaurs
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218:Permanent exhibitions
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460:"Dudley Art Gallery"
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