Yahoo News UK reports that Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has closed "Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero," the Bridge Gallery display of treasures from the star's private collection that ran for 15 months before shutting at the end of September.

The gallery now prepares for its next tenant: "Illustrating Birmingham: 100 Years Through The Eyes of the Lockwoods," opening Tuesday, November 3, showcasing paintings, sketchbooks, designs and advertising materials by Frank and Arthur Lockwood, curated by the museum's visitor experience team.

The scale of what is leaving makes the handover remarkable. According to Yahoo News UK, the Ozzy display drew more than 800,000 people to BMAG over its 15-month stay, with exhibits including the star's Grammy Awards and platinum discs.

The show opened before Ozzy's final performance at Villa Park Stadium, and after his death two weeks later the Bridge Gallery became a memorial where fans shared memories and signed a book of condolence for his family. Retiring that site of pilgrimage is a big act for any museum.

The incoming exhibition, Yahoo News UK reports, captures the city from the 1920s to the 2010s through the personal record of a changing place: demolition and new builds, shopping centres and factories.

Frank Taylor Lockwood, born in Yorkshire in 1895, was a former design studio leader at Cadbury's and an associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.

His son Arthur, born in Birmingham in 1934, trained as a graphic designer working for Penguin Books while painting the city throughout his life.

The BMAG handover lands amid a season of museums spotlighting identity rather than celebrity memorabilia.

Patch reports The Aldrich in Ridgefield, Connecticut will present "Bonnie Lucas: Material Girls, A Survey" from June 27, 2027 through January 30, 2028 — the New York-based artist's first solo museum exhibition, gathering more than five decades of collage, assemblage and cast-plaster work probing femininity and girlhood, with new pieces debuting at the museum alongside her first museum catalogue.

Birmingham Museums Trust co-chief executives Zak Mensah and Sara Wajid framed the Lockwood show, per Yahoo News UK, as "a fascinating window onto Birmingham across almost a century," noting the paintings capture not just streets and buildings but "the people who have made Birmingham what it is today."

The pair added that the exhibition reflects Birmingham as somewhere "always changing and has never stood still," and that "the city we see today won't be the same in 50 years' time."

The Lockwood exhibition opens Tuesday, November 3 at BMAG, where it will be measured against the enormous footfall of the Ozzy show it succeeds.

Meanwhile the McCook Gazette reports the Museum of the High Plains in Nebraska opens "Sheldon Statewide: Hyphen American" on Thursday, November 5, running through December 2 — a Sheldon Museum of Art touring show of works on identity, gender, race, ethnicity and class, timed to the United States' 250th celebration and visiting eight venues this school year.