Doors Open Days: Miss Cranston’s Classroom
Bring your family to Mackintosh at the Willow this Doors Open Days and get a taste of 1903 in this extra-special Living History experience!
About Doors Open Days: Miss Cranston’s Classroom
| 21st September 2025 | |
| 1.30pm - 2.30pm | |
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Mackintosh at the Willow 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow City Centre G2 3EX |
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| Free but booking required | |
| Event organiser/part of Doors Open Days | |
| Visit the event website here | |
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Meet Edwardian Entrepreneur Miss Kate Cranston and take part in her interactive classroom to find out if you have what it takes to work in a turn-of-the-century tea room. Come practise your mental arithmetic, copper plate handwriting, Mackintosh-inspired design skills and – most importantly – the art of serving the perfect cup of tea.
This workshop is suitable for families with children that are 9-12 years old, but all are welcome. Please be aware that Miss Cranston may be loud and sometimes strict, this may be alarming for younger children or children with additional support or sensory needs. Places are limited and booking is essential. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Both children and adults must have booked places. If you are unable to attend, please refund your tickets so that another family can participate. Bookings Open 1st September.
This new workshop was originally developed for Primary schools with Yilin Zhu and Qiyao Hu, students from University of Glasgow's MSc Museum Education, and actress Lesley Robertson. Costume, hair and make-up were generously produced by Flavia Burroni Miglio, Gilberto Miglio and Scottish Opera. Testing for the workshop was undertaken in collaboration with Golfhill Primary School, St Brides Primary School and St Aloysius Junior School.
To enquire further please contact obraid@nts.org.uk or telephone 0141 204 1903
For information on accessibility please visit https://www.nts.org.uk/accessibility/mackintosh-at-the-willow-accessibility-guide
In 2025 The National Trust for Scotland is partnering with Glasgow Doors Open Days to raise awareness of Mackintosh Illuminated.
In December 2024, The National Lottery Heritage Fund awarded a generous £1.1 million package of development funding for Mackintosh Illuminated, a project that will spotlight Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald, sharing, celebrating, and inspiring as many as possible with their creative genius and the beauty of their creations. The project will help make Mackintosh and Macdonald better known and appreciated, internationally and at home, by creating an online learning resource and an expanded programme of property-based community and education work in Helensburgh and Glasgow. The project also encourages more people to visit both sites to get a richer picture of the pair’s skill and versatility. By working in partnership with other Mackintosh stakeholders in Glasgow and more widely, this support will aid in organising celebrations for the 2028 anniversary of Mackintosh’s death and the 160th anniversary of his birth. The funding is also enabling the Trust to continue the vital conservation work at the Hill House, including the full removal of the current render, to find a replacement material which will resolve the longstanding damp issue, remove the Box in 2028 and provide updated, permanent visitor facilities, including a café, shop and toilet facilities at the site on Upper Colquhoun Street in Helensburgh.
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