[2] In 2008, the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter was named as the third best free tourist attraction in Europe by TripAdvisor, behind the Pantheon in Rome and the National Gallery in London.

[4] For over 80 years the family-run firm of Smith and Pepper produced gold jewellery from the factory that is now the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, with very few changes in working practices, equipment or the appearance of the workshop.

Everything was left as it was: tools on benches, overalls hanging on coat hooks, even cups of tea and jars of jam and Marmite.

The museum opened in 1992[5] originally as the Jewellery Quarter Discovery Centre, as part of the city's Heritage Development Plan.

[10] The museum is the starting point of the self-guided walking tour of the Jewellery Quarter.