Glasgow Museums Resource Centre

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre Glasgow Life Museums’ accessible store, a treasure trove of over 1 million objects. Book a free tour!

We hold an enormous collection of objects that aren't currently on display in the other eight Glasgow Museums, we have everything from tiny insects to large transport and more. This profile is monitored regularly and we will answer enquiries within 24 hours, if you would like a more immediate response please call our central switchboard during office hours on 0141 287 4350. By commenting on a Glas

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Specialist Tour: Clyde River Steamers in DetailTuesday 26th November2.30-3.30 pmJoin this tour of the Ship Model store ...
12/11/2024

Specialist Tour: Clyde River Steamers in Detail
Tuesday 26th November
2.30-3.30 pm

Join this tour of the Ship Model store to look at models of Clyde steamers from the 1840s to the 1920s. From simple early half hulls to complex display models with full internal detailing this tour looks at the fascinating stories of both the ship models and the vessels they represent.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

Image credit: Cutaway model of RMS Aquitania c1920

Specialist Tour- A Chronology of Fashion: 1830-1840Tuesday 19th November2.30-3.30 pmDid you enjoy the fashions in Gentle...
06/11/2024

Specialist Tour- A Chronology of Fashion: 1830-1840
Tuesday 19th November
2.30-3.30 pm

Did you enjoy the fashions in Gentleman Jack? If so, you'll love this exploration of surviving garments, accessories and fashion plates from 1830-1840. Join curator Rebecca Quinton as she continues our Chronology of Fashion.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

Image credit: Embroidered shoes made by J MacNeille, Ayr, circa 1830-40 © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.

Specialist Tour | Religion, Romance and Passion: Scottish Pre-Raphaelite Noel PatonDunfermline-born painter Noel Paton w...
30/10/2024

Specialist Tour | Religion, Romance and Passion: Scottish Pre-Raphaelite Noel Paton

Dunfermline-born painter Noel Paton was a life-long friend of members of the Pre-Raphaelite group and his art shows sympathy with their ideals - their romantic medievalising subject matter and style, use of symbolism, minute detailing of nature and concern to research actual sources for historical costume and pictorial props.

Join us for this exciting opportunity to see examples of Paton's work not normally on display, including illustrations of Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan and Border Ballads, led by Curator of British Art Jo Meacock.

📅Tuesday 5 November
⏰2.30pm

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

Image: Noel Paton, 'The bride hath paced into the hall', 1862, pen and ink on paper. © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.

🐒🦝🦌 It's World Animal Day! 🐹🐼🐍But how can museum collections make the world better for living animals? 🤔Pangolins are sc...
04/10/2024

🐒🦝🦌 It's World Animal Day! 🐹🐼🐍

But how can museum collections make the world better for living animals? 🤔

Pangolins are scaly mammals that roll into a ball when threatened. Illegally hunted for their meat and scales, they are vulnerable to extinction. ☹️

Last year researchers from the University of Glasgow extracted DNA from pangolins in our collections. ‍🧪🔬 This DNA will become part of a DNA map, which will help combat illegal pangolin hunting. Scientists will use it to work out what part of the world confiscated scales came from. 🌍

🙂 Visit the West Court at Kelvingrove to see an Indian Pangolin on display. Or search our wider pangolin collection on Glasgow Life Museums' online collection pages: https://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/mwebcgi/mweb?request=advanced;dtype=d;_tkeyword=pangolin



Image credit: Photographs of sampling at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre by Dr Jason Newton, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, University of Glasgow, with Robyn Haggard, Curator of Zoology, Glasgow Life Museums.

Specialist Tour: How Extraordinary! A review of the Art Extraordinary collection developed by Joyce Laing, art therapist...
01/10/2024

Specialist Tour: How Extraordinary! A review of the Art Extraordinary collection developed by Joyce Laing, art therapist

Tuesday 15th October
2.30-3.30 pm

How Extraordinary! Join curator Dr Anthony Lewis for a review of the Art Extraordinary collection developed by Joyce Laing, art therapist

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

Image credit:Embroidered tea cosy © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.

It's Black History Month and we are celebrating with a display of protester’s placards used during the Black Lives Matte...
01/10/2024

It's Black History Month and we are celebrating with a display of protester’s placards used during the Black Lives Matter demonstration on Glasgow Green in 2020.

📅 Tuesday 8 October
⏰2:30pm – 3.30pm
Black Lives Matter - Placards Reflection

At the end of the Black Lives Matter protest on Glasgow Green, 7 June 2020, part of a global wave of protest sparked by the murder of George Floyd, demonstrators laid out and left placards as a collective message to the world.

Come and see some of these placards and take time to reflect on their messages.

To book your free place on this tour please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300.

Check out all of the Glasgow Life Museums Black History Month events here⤵️

https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/learning/black-history-month-at-glasgow-life-museums

Specialist Tour: Black Life Matters placards - ReflectionTuesday 8th October2.30-3.30 pmAn opportunity to reflect on pla...
26/09/2024

Specialist Tour: Black Life Matters placards - Reflection
Tuesday 8th October
2.30-3.30 pm

An opportunity to reflect on placards from the Black Lives Matter protest on Glasgow Green, 7 June 2020. After the demonstration many were left on Glasgow Green as a record of the day. Join curator Fiona Hayes to see the placards and read their messages.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

Image credit: CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Libraries Collection

As the trees are beginning to change colour we thought you might enjoy this seasonal watercolour by Glasgow Boy associat...
25/09/2024

As the trees are beginning to change colour we thought you might enjoy this seasonal watercolour by Glasgow Boy associate Arthur Melville.

Melville transforms the wooded shores of Loch Lomond into a decorative pattern of autumnal colour, the vibrant oranges of the leaves contrasting vividly with the deep blue of the loch.

Melville moved to London in 1889 but continued to visit Scotland on a regular basis. In 1893 he was painting at Loch Lomond and Brig o’Turk in the Trossachs with Joseph Crawhall.



Arthur Melville, ‘Autumn, Loch Lomond’, 1893, watercolour on paper. ©CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.

Specialist Tour: Ukiyo-e Japanese PrintsTuesday 24th September2.30-3.30 pmUkiyo-e, or ‘pictures of a floating world’, wa...
10/09/2024

Specialist Tour: Ukiyo-e Japanese Prints
Tuesday 24th September
2.30-3.30 pm

Ukiyo-e, or ‘pictures of a floating world’, was known for several genres depicting specific aspects of Japanese life. Artists created woodblock prints and paintings featuring beautiful women, shunga or “pictures of spring”, kabuki theatre actors, as well as bird and flower images and landscapes. Prints by artists like Utamaro reflected not only changing standards of beauty in Japanese culture, but the artist's sensibility. The French term Japonisme refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among European artists in the 19th century. Famous artists like Degas, Monet, and Van Gogh all fell under the influence of this wave of Japanese art. Dr Yupin Chung, Curator of East Asian Art, guides us on a fascinating journey to explore the concepts, styles, and trends of Ukiyo-e.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

Image credit:Japanese woodblock print by Kitagawa Utamaro © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection

Specialist Tour: Looking at LocomotivesTuesday 10th September2.30-3.30 pmGlasgow was once known as a locomotive city. Th...
27/08/2024

Specialist Tour: Looking at Locomotives
Tuesday 10th September
2.30-3.30 pm

Glasgow was once known as a locomotive city. Thousands were built and used across Britain as well as being shipped across the globe. Join curator John Messner on this tour of locomotives... big and small ... and discover some of the stories of their construction and working lives.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

Image credit: Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Glasgow Museums

Specialist Tour: Ship Models in DetailTuesday 27th August2.30-3.30 pmJoin this tour of the Ship Model store to see Clyd...
21/08/2024

Specialist Tour: Ship Models in Detail
Tuesday 27th August
2.30-3.30 pm

Join this tour of the Ship Model store to see Clyde shipbuilding in miniature with a detailed look at liners, paddle steamers and battleships. Find out more about how ship models were made and used.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

Image credit:Cutaway model of RMS Aquitania c1920

Specialist Tour:Tartan, Fans and Embroidery: Portraits and FashionTuesday 20th August2.30-3.30 pmA boy's tartan dress, e...
30/07/2024

Specialist Tour:Tartan, Fans and Embroidery: Portraits and Fashion
Tuesday 20th August
2.30-3.30 pm

A boy's tartan dress, extravagant evening wear, beautiful embroidered cotton and patterned silks - join Curator of British Art Jo Meacock and Curator of Dress and Textiles Rebecca Quinton for a very special tour looking at a selection of portraits beside items of dress in Glasgow Life Museums' collection.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

Image credit:Val Prinsep, 'Lady Simpson', 1892, oil on canvas. © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.

Specialist Tour: A Chronology of Fashion: 1820-1830Tuesday 13th August2.30-3.30 pm202 years ago this month George IV vis...
23/07/2024

Specialist Tour: A Chronology of Fashion: 1820-1830
Tuesday 13th August
2.30-3.30 pm

202 years ago this month George IV visited Edinburgh with the programme of public events drawing crowds of onlookers dressed up in their finest clothing. Join curator Rebecca Quinton to find out what types of clothes and accessories people might have worn to celebrate this special royal visit.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

Image credit: Man's tailcoat in Prince Charles Edward Stewart tartan, about 1820-30. © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.

Specialist Tour: French 19th Century Painting: From Barbizon to Post- ImpressionistTuesday 6th August2.30-3.30 pmThe dev...
16/07/2024

Specialist Tour: French 19th Century Painting: From Barbizon to Post- Impressionist
Tuesday 6th August
2.30-3.30 pm

The development of painting in France between 1800-1900 saw one of Art History's most exciting shifts in terms of style and subject. Join Curator of European Art, Pippa Stephenson-Sit, on a voyage of discovery in the painting store.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

image credit: Pierre Auguste Renoir, 'Coco'© CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.

Specialist Tour: Glasgow's Commonwealth Games 2014Tuesday 16th July2.30-3.30 pmIn 2014 Glasgow hosted one of the most su...
02/07/2024

Specialist Tour: Glasgow's Commonwealth Games 2014
Tuesday 16th July
2.30-3.30 pm

In 2014 Glasgow hosted one of the most sucessful Commonwealth Games ever. Join curators Neil Johnson-Symington and Isobel McDonald to look at some of our Commonwealth Games collections from 2014, focussing particularly on cycling and the opening and closing ceremonies.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

image credit: Glasgow Life

🏛️⚱️Behind the Scenes ToursEvery Wednesday 2.30-3.30 pmJoin us on a tour of the wonderful collections held within Glasgo...
02/07/2024

🏛️⚱️Behind the Scenes Tours
Every Wednesday
2.30-3.30 pm

Join us on a tour of the wonderful collections held within Glasgow Museums Resource Centre. There is so much to discover, from armour to artic Foxes, fine art to ship models. What will you find on your visit?

All tours are free but must be booked in advance. Please email [email protected] or phone 0141 276 9300 (mon-Fri) to book your place.

🌞Discover more fun activities in our Summer of Fun programme https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/summer-of-fun

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We hold an enormous collection of objects that aren't currently on display in the other eight Glasgow Museums, we have everything from tiny insects to large transport and more.

Book on one of our tours to view some of Glasgow Museums' objects that aren't on display.