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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20th January 2026 3rd February 2026 17th February 2026 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 20th January: Arms and Armour
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.
Tuesday 3rd February: The Queer Divine
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 queer identity in ancient times.
Tuesday 17th February: 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 3rd March: 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 17th March: African Women, Myth and Material Memory
African myth and folklore play a central role in shaping cultural identity, belief systems and collective memory. Moving between historic wooden artefacts and contemporary works, this tour explores how African women, spiritual power and myth have been represented and, at times, misunderstood. Join Gallery Assistant and African art enthusiast Lizzie Eidson as she examines sculptural and painted depictions of African women across time, drawing on Ethiopian, Mende and wider African oral traditions, alongside Yoruba-inflected ideas, to consider how these narratives have been erased and reanimated in contemporary practice.
Tours are FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Please email glmuseumsadminbookingshub@glasgowlife.org.uk or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.
Additional Dates: 03 February 2026, 17 February 2026, 03 March 2026, 17 March 2026
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