Ozzy's Throne Comes Home to Birmingham, Almost a Year to the Day Since His Last Show

There's a quietly fitting bit of timing to this one. Tomorrow marks a year since Ozzy Osbourne's final ever performance, at Villa Park on 5 July 2025 — and today, the very throne he sat on that night has gone on public display back in his home city.

The gothic-style black throne, decorated with bat-wing motifs, was originally built for Ozzy's 2024 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It made its last public appearance at that farewell Villa Park show, the send-off gig that doubled as Black Sabbath's final performance together. From 1 July, it has taken pride of place inside Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery's free exhibition, Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero.

The exhibition itself has quietly become one of the city's cultural success stories. It first opened in June 2025, has since been extended twice due to public demand, and is now running until 27 September 2026. More than 425,000 people have walked through its doors so far.

Inside, alongside the throne, sits a genuinely impressive haul of personal memorabilia: Grammy Awards, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honours, MTV awards, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star and a Birmingham Walk of Fame honour of his own, plus photography and video charting his journey from, in the exhibition's own words, 'a working-class kid from Aston' to one of the most recognisable rock stars on the planet.

It's a strange, lovely thing for a city to be able to do — to hold a working-class Aston lad's entire career under one roof, in the same museum most of us walked past on school trips, a short walk from where he grew up. A year on from that last show, it feels like a fitting way for Birmingham to keep marking his life.

Entry is free, and the museum is open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm.