Today we visit the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery for the Matthew Boulton – Selling What all the World Desires’ exhibition, then on to Soho House and the Lunar Society

To mark the bicentenary of the demise of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is hosting a major exhibition focusing on his life and times.  In addition to being a great entrepeneur his Soho House became a meeting place for the so-called Lunar Society which counted the titans of the Enlightenment, Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin, and James Watt among its members.

(This item updated on 23 July  2009)