About Us

Black Country Prints features items from the collections of a group of archives and museums services within the Black Country:

* Dudley Museums Service

* Sandwell Museums Service

* Walsall Local History Centre

* Walsall Museums Service

* Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies

* Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service

We are pleased to offer copies of images of some of the most interesting items from our collections as high quality framed and unframed prints and canvases, postcards and greetings cards through this website:

Archival Photographs: Our photographic collections date back to the mid 19th century and offer a unique glimpse of the history of the Black Country and beyond.

Decorative and Fine Art:  The selection includes items made locally and abroad, local views and some of our most popular oil paintings and watercolours.

Historical Objects: The images chosen are very varied and illustrate the diversity of our collections.

Natural History:  Included on this website are a small selection of photographs of natural history specimens, mainly fossils specimens from our geology collections.

More information about our collections

Each service holds thousands of items relating to the history of the Black Country, to see information about these collections please visit our Black Country History website.

Not all of the images shown on the Black Country History website are available as prints via this website. The selection available here has been chosen for their popularity and local or historic interest.

This website is operated by Magnolia Box and powered using our specialist print on demand solution.

Our flexible print on demand software supports a wide range of highly flexible website and mobile apps, each designed to help our users and clients make money from their digital image assets. Our custom solutions include artist online portfolios, photographer online portfolios, museum websites and print on demand kiosks, web apps and iphone apps. Each app is created and maintained by our team, helping users transform their images into a beautiful fine art print, canvas print, framed wall art and wall decor.

We are trusted by many of the world’s finest institutions and have exclusive fine art print partnerships with Tate, National Galleries of Scotland, Natural History Museum, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, British Library print on demand, National Maritime Museum, Times Newspapers, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as well as many, many more.