If you’ve ever been at a gig or festival and seen a dog-eared old t-shirt from tours decades passed and thought, ‘Christ, that belongs in a museum’… You might be right. In June 2025, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery unveiled a special exhibition dedicated to the life and career of Ozzy Osbourne. Titled Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero, the pop-up has received over 450,000 visitors since it opened and has now been extended to September 2026.
“We knew from previous shows we’ve put on that something like this would attract a big audience,” says Toby Watley, Director of Collections and Estates for Birmingham Museum’s Trust. “The level of interest has far exceeded what we were expecting. Older generations might bring along their grandkids or children to share that experience. So you can’t assume it’ll be a bunch of old rockers turning up; in August [2025] we had our busiest day in ten years.”
