Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
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200 Woodhead Road, Glasgow, G53 7NN
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC) is the store for the museums' collections when they are not on display at our venues. It is a vast building with rooms full of fantastic objects, from animals to armour, fine art to fossils, and much more. The 17 purpose-built and environmentally controlled storage ‘pods’ house around 1.4 million objects. In fact, only 2% of our collections are on display and the majority of these objects are stored here.
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre is different – you can explore this very special building and its collections through a wide range of tours, talks and activities for all ages, including school visits and events for families with children, and research appointments. |
What's on?
Video - see below Webinars - recordings available below 
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Exploring the Treasures of the
Painting Store Dr Jo Meacock, Curator of British Art at Glasgow Museums, will introduce Pod 4, the painting store at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC). This huge, environmentally controlled space houses around 3,000 oil paintings, 75% of the museum’s painting collection, all on rolling racks to allow for easy access and viewing. Jo will explain the thinking behind this pioneering open access research facility and how it is used for education, research and creative activities, drawing attention to a few of the art treasures that you might find if you visit. |
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Chinks in the Armour: Behind the Scenes of Glasgow Museums’
Arms and Armour Collection Tuesday @ 1500-1600 Join curator Dr Ralph Moffat for a closer look at some of the fantastic objects in the arms and armour collection. As well as the displays at Kelvingrove many more objects are stored at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre. Find out more about the production, use, and what those at the time understood about the weapons and armour they made, owned and used. |
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Glasgow’s Smallest Doors Are Open!
Wednesday @ 1500-1600 Did you know that some of Glasgow Museums’ finest ship models have their doors painted as if they are ajar – and some even have detailing of furniture, carpets and curtains inside their saloons and cabins? Ship models like this were designed to impress visitors to exhibitions in the nineteenth century and they still excite and entrance today. Join this virtual visit to view models close-up and learn more about how they were planned, created and used. |
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Marco Polo’s Orient: A response from Glasgow Museums’ collection
to Fiona Tan: Disorient Through museum objects, this short film explores what the Venetian traveller Marco Polo would have seen and experienced on his journey east. These museum objects, all from the 13th century and Marco Polo’s time, form part of Glasgow Museums’ encyclopaedic collections that are housed in Glasgow Museums Resource Centre. This film is a response to artist Fiona Tan’s artwork “Disorient” – a video installation that explores our current experiences and perceptions of parts of the world that Marco Polo had previously journeyed through. |
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Opening the Wardrobe Doors
Friday @ 1500-1600 Join Rebecca Quinton, Research Manager (Art) and Glasgow Museums' curator of European Costume and Textiles for an introduction to Pod 17, the new textiles store at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC). Discover some of the tasks involved in repacking different types of objects in the collection to ensure they are safe yet accessible for future generations of visitors and staff to enjoy. Learn about the genealogy research that is undertaken to find out more about who the makers and wearers of some of the garments were and how this helps connect the objects back to specific people and places. Webinar available below |
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