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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10th September 2024 24th September 2024 15th October 2024 plus 5 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 | |
6th August: French 19th Century Painting: From Barbizon to Post- Impressionist
The development of painting in France between 1800-1900 saw one of Art History's most exciting shifts in terms of style and subject. Join Curator of European Art, Pippa Stephenson-Sit, on a voyage of discovery in the painting store.
13th August: A Chronology of Fashion: 1820-1830
202 years ago this month George IV visited Edinburgh with the programme of public events drawing crowds of onlookers dressed up in their finest clothing. Join curator Rebecca Quinton to find out what types of clothes and accessories people might have worn to celebrate this special royal visit.
20th August: Tartan, Fans and Embroidery: Portraits and Fashion
A boy's tartan dress, extravagant evening wear, beautiful embroidered cotton and patterned silks - join Curator of British Art Jo Meacock and Curator of Dress and Textiles Rebecca Quinton for a very special tour looking at a selection of portraits beside items of dress in Glasgow Life Museums' collection.
27th August: 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.
10th September: Looking at Locomotives
Glasgow was once known as a locomotive city. Thousands were built and used across Britain as well as being shipped across the globe. Join curator John Messner on this tour of locomotives ... big and small ... and discover some of the stories of their construction and working lives.
24th September: Ukiyo-e Japanese Prints
Ukiyo-e, or ‘pictures of a floating world’, was known for several genres depicting specific aspects of Japanese life. Artists created woodblock prints and paintings featuring beautiful women, shunga or “pictures of spring”, kabuki theatre actors, as well as bird and flower images and landscapes. Prints by artists like Utamaro reflected not only changing standards of beauty in Japanese culture, but the artist's sensibility.
The French term Japonisme refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among European artists in the 19th century. Famous artists like Degas, Monet, and Van Gogh all fell under the influence of this wave of Japanese art. Dr Yupin Chung, Curator of East Asian Art, guides us on a fascinating journey to explore the concepts, styles, and trends of Ukiyo-e.
15th October: How Extraordinary! A review of the Art Extraordinary collection developed by Joyce Laing, art therapist
How Extraordinary! Join curator Dr Anthony Lewis for a review of the Art Extraordinary collection developed by Joyce Laing, art therapist
22nd October: Not Just 'Christ of Saint John of the Cross': other artworks by Salvador Dali in Glasgow Museums
Glasgow Museums' 'Christ of Saint John of the Cross' is widely recognised as one of Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali's finest masterpieces. But did you know that we hold a number of other treasures by this artist? Join Curator of European Art Pippa Stephenson-Sit to explore objects these objects.
5th November: Religion, Romance and Passion: Scottish Pre-Raphaelite Noel Paton
Dunfermline-born painter Noel Paton was a life-long friend of members of the Pre-Raphaelite group and his art shows sympathy with their ideals - their romantic medievalising subject matter and style, use of symbolism, minute detailing of nature and concern to research actual sources for historical costume and pictorial props.
An exciting opportunity to see examples of Paton's work not normally on display, including illustrations of Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan and Border Ballads, led by Curator of British Art Jo Meacock.
12th November: Italian Art: Select Paintings and Drawings
Glasgow Museums holds one of the country's finest collection of Italian paintings, as well as fascinating Italian works on paper. Join Curator of European Art, Pippa Stephenson-Sit, to look closely at some examples from the collection.
19th November: A Chronology of Fashion: 1830-1840
Discover the rise and fall of the sleeve during the 1830s. Continuing our new Chronology of Fashion join curator Rebecca Quinton in this exploration of garments, accessories and fashion plates from 1830-1840.
26th November: Clyde River Steamers in Detail
Join this tour of the Ship Model store to look at models of Clyde steamers from the 1840s to the 1920s. From simple early half hulls to complex display models with full internal detailing this tour looks at the fascinating stories of both the ship models and the vessels they represent.
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: 24 September 2024, 15 October 2024, 22 October 2024, 05 November 2024, 12 November 2024, 19 November 2024, 26 November 2024
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