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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Did you know we have an 'Exhibitions Online' section on our Collections Navigator website? With Glasgow Mela 2026 around...
14/06/2026

Did you know we have an 'Exhibitions Online' section on our Collections Navigator website?

With Glasgow Mela 2026 around the corner, on 5th July, discover more about Glasgow and its people by revisiting Coming into View: Eric Watt's Photographs of Glasgow
(Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum 4 March 2022 to 20 August 2023).

Eric’s photographs document Glasgow, the people who lived and worked there, their communities and livelihood, their transport and their children. This colour slide shows performers at the first Glasgow Mela, held in 1990 at the Tramway in Pollokshields, to celebrate South Asian culture.

Image: Glasgow Mela, Eric Watt October 1990 © CSG CIC Glasgow Life Museums and Libraries Collection.

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🌊✨ Happy World Oceans Day! 🌍💙 collections.glasgowmuseums.com allows you to search the catalogues for our oceanic objects...
08/06/2026

🌊✨ Happy World Oceans Day! 🌍💙 collections.glasgowmuseums.com allows you to search the catalogues for our oceanic objects and fascinating fish 🐟🐚

This slit shell, Mikadotrochus salmianus, is a beautiful example of one of the more primitive types of gastropods. Slit shells have been around for millions of years living in the deep oceans throughout the tropics and subtropics. They were thought to have been extinct until the mid 1800s when live specimens were found in the Caribbean. This specimen was found in the seas south west of Taiwan.

Slit shells are rare in shell collections as they are only found in deep waters.

🚴‍♀️🌍 Happy World Bicycle Day! Explore the bikes in Glasgow Museums' collection from the comfort of your own home by us...
03/06/2026

🚴‍♀️🌍 Happy World Bicycle Day!

Explore the bikes in Glasgow Museums' collection from the comfort of your own home by using collections.glasgowmuseums.com

This bone shaker was called a Velocipede, made of wood and iron, and dates from around 1870.

🎉 Join us for this Specialist Tour for Pride Month at GRMC 🌈Classical mythology is filled with a colourful array of LGBT...
01/06/2026

🎉 Join us for this Specialist Tour for Pride Month at GRMC 🌈

Classical mythology is filled with a colourful array of LGBTQ+ characters, from immortal gods to tragic heroes. Join this tour through our fantastic collection as we explore paintings and sculptures featuring major figures from Greco-Roman myth and reality. As we examine these artworks, we will discuss what their stories possibly tell us about the understanding of q***r identity in ancient times.

📢 Tuesday 16th June, 2.30-3.30pm
FREE, but spaces are limited so advance booking is required
💻 [email protected] or ☎️ 0141 276 9300 for help to book



Image: David Scott, Sappho and Anacreon, 1832-33 © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Libraries Collection

🔎 Did you know you can access Glasgow Museums Collections online? 🪆These wooden ducks and Carpathian goose-girl figurine...
30/05/2026

🔎 Did you know you can access Glasgow Museums Collections online?

🪆These wooden ducks and Carpathian goose-girl figurine are from Hungary, part of a collection of dolls in national costume.

🖼️ Visit our Collections Navigator site, and find object descriptions, photographs, location information and much more. You can look up objects you saw recently on a tour, or you can get inspiration for an upcoming visit 🌟

🏫 There's a section devoted to school topics such as Expressive Arts and Social Studies, ideal for both teachers and pupils.

💻 collections.glasgowmuseums.com

🔬 How can you get the best out of Glasgow Museums Resource Centre?We welcome visitors here at GMRC each week on pre-book...
30/05/2026

🔬 How can you get the best out of Glasgow Museums Resource Centre?

We welcome visitors here at GMRC each week on pre-booked visits: community groups, researchers, students, schools and our ever-popular guided tours and holiday activities 🖼️

📆Check out our programme of tours and activities at glasgowlife.org.uk/gmrc

🔬 Explore options for object viewings at collections.glasgowmuseums.com

⚔️ Specialist Tour - Tuesday 19th May, 2.30-3.30pm Join Curator of European Arms and Armour, Ralph Moffat, to explore th...
05/05/2026

⚔️ Specialist Tour - Tuesday 19th May, 2.30-3.30pm

Join Curator of European Arms and Armour, Ralph Moffat, to explore the fantastic collection housed at the Centre. From knights in armour to crossbows and rapiers, you’ll get up close and personal with some real objects – maybe for your first time ever.

🎫FREE but limited to 15 spaces - please book early to guarantee your place!

💻 [email protected] or
📞 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

Image: RL Scott bequest, 1939 © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Libraries Collection

⚡Specialist tour at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre⚡📆 Friday 8 May 2026, 2.30pm🎫 FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please 💻...
28/04/2026

⚡Specialist tour at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre⚡
📆 Friday 8 May 2026, 2.30pm
🎫 FREE but limited to 15 spaces.
Please 💻 [email protected]
or ☎️ 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

This tour by GoMA Curator Katie Bruce will look at two key paintings in Glasgow Life Museums' collection by the Guyanese painter Aubrey Williams as part of his centenary year celebrations.

We hold two of his incredible paintings from the 1960's - 'Rockface' and 'Maridowa Series IV’ - through a project with curatorial duo Mother Tongue who were awarded an Art Fund New Collecting Award in 2018 in affiliation with Glasgow Museums. These awards offer 100% funding for focused collecting projects, enabling curators to expand collections into exciting new areas or deepen existing holdings in significant new ways. Works by Williams were acquired in 2019 and displayed in the show 'Revisiting the Work of Black Artists in Scotland Through New Collecting' in 2022.

Born on 8 May 1926 he lived in Guyana until 1952 when he left to enrol at St Martins School of Art, London, UK. Williams’ work is now considered important in the development of 20th century abstraction painting. His concerns about past histories being repeated in the contemporary ensure his paintings are vibrant in colour, paint and texture on the surface of the canvas with the meaning of these layers merging geological, historical and human ideas. He felt that painting could communicate just as much as the written word and argued strongly that abstraction was ‘no less socially committed as figurative painting’.






Painting: Rockface, 1964 by Aubrey Williams © Estate of Aubrey Williams

🙋🏻‍♀️ How can you visit Glasgow Museums Resource Centre?We welcome many visitors here at GMRC each week through pre-book...
23/04/2026

🙋🏻‍♀️ How can you visit Glasgow Museums Resource Centre?

We welcome many visitors here at GMRC each week through pre-booked visits - community groups, researchers, students, schools and our ever-popular guided tours and holiday activities 🖼️

📆Check out our programme of tours and activities at glasgowlife.org/gmrc

🔬 Explore options for object viewings at collections.glasgowmuseums.com

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