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Tenement House
Run by the National Trust for Scotland, this “museum”
is a typical Glasgow flat, preserved with all the fixtures and fittings from the early
part of the 20th century: Coal fires, box bed in the kitchen, and gas lamps. Indeed,
the resident, Miss Agnes Toward, apparently never threw out anything from 1911 to
1965, so there are displays of all sorts of memorabilia, from ticket stubs and letters
to ration coupons and photographs from trips down the Clyde.
145 Buccleuch St.
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0141/333-0183.
www.nts.org.uk/visits. Admission £5.50 adults, £4.50 children
and seniors, £15 family. MC, V. Mar-Oct daily 1-5pm. Closed Nov-Feb. Underground: Cowcaddens. Bus:
11, 20, 66, 118, or 159.
Trongate 103
Opened in 2009, this is an exciting, well-considered artistic
development from the City Council. It combines no less than four existing galleries,
including the always excellent Glasgow Print Studio, as well as the kinetic sculp-
tures of the Sharmanka Theatre and a Russian Cultural Centre in Café Cossachok.
As a locus of creativity, there are also workshops and studios for Glasgow artists. On
the first Thursday of the month, the complex opens all doors and stays open later.
103 Trongate.
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0141/276-8380.
www.trongate103.com. Free admission. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun
noon-5pm (some galleries are closed Mon). Underground: St. Enoch. Bus: 62
West End
Hunterian Art Gallery
The University of Glasgow inherited the artistic estate
of American-born James McNeill Whistler, with some 60 of his paintings bestowed
by his sister-in-law and many hanging in this gallery on the university campus. The
main gallery space also exhibits 17th- and 18th-century paintings (Rembrandt to
Rubens) and 19th- and 20th-century Scottish works, including those by the so-
called “Glasgow Boys” and the Scottish Colourists, such as Cadell, Hunter, and
Fergusson. Temporary exhibits, selected from Scotland's largest collection of prints,
are hung in the print gallery upstairs. The Hunterian also boasts a collection of
Charles Rennie Mackintosh furnishings, and one wing of the building has a re-cre-
ation of the architect's Glasgow home from 1906 to 1914—startling then and a little
less so today. The
Mackintosh House
covers three levels, decorated in the
original style of the famed architect and his artist wife, Margaret Macdonald. All
salvageable fittings and fixtures were recovered from the original home before it was
demolished in the mid-1960s. The aspect of this re-creation mimics the original
house; the sequence of the rooms is identical.
University of Glasgow, 22 Hillhead St.
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0141/330-5431.
www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk. Free gallery admis-
sion. Mackintosh House admission £3; free Wed after 2pm. Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm. Closed Sun and
public holidays. Underground: Hillhead. Bus: 44 or 59.
Hunterian Museum
First opened in 1807, this is Glasgow's oldest museum. It's
named after William Hunter, its early benefactor, who donated his private collec-
tions in 1783. The original home was a handsome Greek revival building near High
Street across town on the Old College campus, none of which survives today. Now
housed in the main Glasgow University buildings, the collection is wide-ranging:
From dinosaur fossils to coins to relics of the Roman occupation and plunder by the
Vikings. The story of Captain Cook's voyages is pieced together in ethnographic
material from the South Seas.
University of Glasgow, Main/Gilbert-Scott Building.
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0141/330-4221.
www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk. Free
admission. Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm. Closed Sun and public holidays. Underground: Hillhead. Bus: 44 or 59.
