Glasgow Museums Resource Centre Specialist Tours
Throughout the year Glasgow Museums Resource Centre holds Specialist Tours where you can join the curators for an in depth look at the collections!
About Glasgow Museums Resource Centre Specialist Tours
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16th September 2025 7th October 2025 21st October 2025 plus 2 more date(s), see below for more info |
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| 2.30pm - 3.30pm | |
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Glasgow Museums Resource Centre 200 Woodhead Road, Glasgow South Side G53 7NN |
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| Free but booking required | |
| Event organiser/part of Glasgow Museums | |
| Visit the event website here | |
Tuesday 5th August: Canton Fans and Fashion
Canton fans, created for export to the Western world, are considered a unique form of craftsmanship combining Eastern and Western traditions in an intriguing way. It makes them one of the many luxuries China has exported to the world throughout history. These highly decorative fans, often selling for hundreds or thousands of pounds at auction houses, were extremely popular accessories in the 18th and 19th centuries. Join our Curator of Chinese Art Yupin Chung and Curator of Dress and Textiles Rebecca Quinton for a fascinating tour looking at a selection of high-quality fans made in Canton, the present-day Guangzhou, to explore the link between two cultures.
Tuesday 19th August: The Glasgow Boys and the Designing of the City Chambers murals
Come and see some of the preparatory designs that the Glasgow Boys made for the murals they carried out for Glasgow’s new City Chambers, finished in 1888. The Glasgow Boys, having carried out murals for the International Exhibition in Glasgow in 1888 were offered the commission. Their murals reanimated Glasgow’s ancient and medieval past, and controversially addressed the modern industrial city too. Led by Curator of British Art, Jo Meacock.
Tuesday 16th September: An Hour with the Four
This always popular tour offers a chance to look in detail at works by 'The Four': Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret Macdonald, Frances Macdonald and James Herbert McNair. From early collaborative graphic works to exquisite watercolours, furniture design and interior decoration this tour led by Alison Brown, Curator for European Decorative Art and Design 1800-present, gives an insight into the history, making and symbolism of their work and of some of their contemporaries. Early booking is advised.
Tuesday 7th October: Celebrating Joyce Laing - an extraordinary art therapist
This tour celebrates the work and collection of Joyce Laing, Scotland's pioneering art therapist. It will review her Art Extraordinary collection and work in Barlinnie Prison's Special Unit from the 1970s to 1980s
Tuesday 21st October: From Hagstones to Hopkins: Magic and Witchcraft at the GMRC
Today, witches are viewed as monsterous stereotypes armed with broomsticks, cauldrons, and pointy hats. However, the figure of the witch as we now know it didn't emerge out of nowhere - instead, it was forged over time, mirroring various theological and socio-political ideals in the process. So, in the spirit of Halloween, join gallery assistant and occult history enthusiast Molly Hughes, as she picks out several objects related to magic and witchcraft from the GMRC's expansive collection, examinining the accuracy of this modern stereotype and how it came to be. Content warning for violence against women.
Tuesday 4th November: Ship Models in Detail
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.
Tuesday 18th November: Glasgow Women Artists
Join Curator of British Art Jo Meacock as she explores the lives and artworks of Glasgow women artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Artists who studied at Glasgow School of Art, were members of the pioneering Glasgow Society of Lady Artists and independent New Art Club, who fought for female suffrage, for recognition in male-dominated institutions, were forced to give up teaching because of the Marriage Bar and who faced all kinds of challenges as they sought to juggle motherhood, domestic life and professional careers, and attain equality with their male peers. The tour will include artists such as Norah Neilson Gray, Bessie MacNicol, Chris Fergusson, Mary Armour, Millie Frood and Louise Annand.
Tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email GMRCBookings@glasgowlife.org.uk or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.
Additional Dates: 07 October 2025, 21 October 2025, 04 November 2025, 18 November 2025
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