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Opened in 1996, the Gallery of Modern Art is housed in a neoclassical building in Royal Exchange Square in the heart of Glasgow city centre. Built in 1778 as the townhouse of William Cunninghame of Lainshaw, a wealthy Glasgow Tobacco Lord who made his fortune through the triangular slave trade, [2] the building has undergone a series of different uses.
The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Glasgow Museums is the group of museums and galleries owned by the City of Glasgow, Scotland. [1] They hold about 1.6 million objects including over 60,000 art works, over 200,000 items in the human history collections, over 21,000 items relating to transport and technology, and over 585,000 natural history specimens. [2]
In 2015, Glasgow City Council tested hi-tech CCTV software worth £1.2m, checking to see whether it could automatically detect people putting cones on the statue, which it could. [ 17 ] On Brexit Day (31 January 2020), pro-European supporters placed a cone painted to represent the EU flag on the statue's head.
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK; Gallery of Modern Art, New York City, which operated 1964–1969 in the building now known as 2 Columbus Circle; Washington Gallery of Modern Art, former gallery in Washington, D.C.
The Hunterian Collection is one of the best-known collections of the University of Glasgow and is cared for by the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery and Glasgow University Library. It contains 650 manuscripts and some 10,000 printed books, [ 1 ] 30,000 coins and 15,000 anatomical and natural history specimens.
The McLellan Galleries were then leased to the Glasgow School of Art as studio and storage space in preparation for the planned redevelopment of the Glasgow School of Art campus. Since 2012 there has been public discussion involving user organisations such as the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts [ 7 ] with a view to re-establishing the ...
Foyer Culturel de Goma's organizational structure is centered on an executive management team responsible for overseeing all activities. This team comprises a director , a head of administration and finance, a head of external relations and events, an educational and artistic coordinator, a communications officer , and a logistician . [ 3 ]
The Hunterian is a complex of museums located in and operated by the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland.It is the oldest museum in Scotland. [1] It covers the Hunterian Museum, the Hunterian Art Gallery, the Mackintosh House, the Zoology Museum and the Anatomy Museum, which are all located in various buildings on the main campus of the university in the west end of Glasgow.