St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art

Located near Glasgow Cathedral, this unique museum explores the six main religious faiths of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism with the aim of better understanding and mutual respect. Divided into three aspects, it covers religious art, religious life and also the history of Scottish religion in the Scottish Gallery.

Gallery of Modern Art

Located in the Royal Exchange building, this gallery houses temporary exhibitions by local and international artists. It has had millions of visitors since opening in 1995 and also has a basement library and rooftop studios where workshops by artists are held.

Glasgow Police Museum

Covering the history of the Glasgow police force, also the UK’s first police force, from 1800 to 1975. Artefacts, illustrations and photographs document the story.

The Burrell Collection

Over 9,000 works of art are available to view here in this purpose built gallery located in Pollock Country Park. The collection was built up over a lifetime by Sir William Burrell and his wife and includes a wide array of pieces ranges from furniture to paintings from all over the world. Cézanne and Degas are included in the collection of paintings as well as Epstein and Rodin in the collection of sculptures.

Pollok House

This remarkable mansion from the 18th Century houses an array of art, antique furniture, ceramics and silverware. The collection includes art by El Greco, Goya and William Blake and was collected mostly by Sir William Maxwell in the 18th Century. He became an expert on Spanish art and history in his time and published the first reference work in English on the subject.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre

Although its main reason to exist is as a storage facility for the city’s museum, holding over 200,000 objects, it has a visitor centre and is accessible as a museum attraction in its own right. It houses collections that were previously on display at other locations offers the public the chance to view ‘hidden’ collections and offers art classes and tours.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Recently re-opened after an extensive restoration project, this striking redbrick Victorian building now houses over 8,000 objects and is the principal gallery and museum of Glasgow. Exhibitions are wide and varied and range from a Spitfire plane to 4 meter Ceratosaur. Archaeology and natural history to European art - Botticelli, Rembrandt, Millet, Monet, Van Gogh, Derain and Picasso are all exhibited here.

Museum of Transport

This museum founded in 1964 depicts all forms of transport from rail and road to sea. It tells the story of transport over the centuries and features exhibits including cycles, horse-drawn carriages and trams, motorcycles, fire engines, steam locomotives, buses trams and even toy cars and prams. It also contains 250 ship models in the “Clyde Room”. Old Glasgow is recaptured in a recreation of an underground station within the museum.

Provand's Lordship

This building is the only surviving medieval house and is located close to the also medieval Glasgow Cathedral. It has been extensively restored order to provide the public a glimpse of life would have been like in medieval Glasgow. The interior however has an eighteenth century flavour. Originally built to be part of a hospital, a medical herb garden has been created nearby to show medicinal plants used in the fifteenth century.

Scotland Street School Museum

Designed as a school by the famous Glaswegian designer, Charles Mackintosh, it closed in the late 70’s and is now a museum dedicated to the history of school education. It illustrates the history of classrooms and education from Victorian era through to the 1960’s and includes some interactive displays and role-play. It also possible to learn more about Mackintosh’s design and detail.

Fossil Grove

Situated in the west of the city within Victoria Park, they exist several fossilised tree stumps estimated at 330 million years old. Accidentally discovered in the late 19th century, they were carefully excavated and protected. Nowadays they can be viewed from a specially constructed balcony for visitors.

McLellan Galleries

This site hosts temporary exhibitions in a central location off a main shopping area of Glasgow.

The Tenement House

This time capsule of how Glaswegians lived at the turn of the twentieth century with this flat kept almost unchanged by its owner for over 50 years and preserved very well thereafter. It contains original features such as the kitchen range and bathroom.

The Lighthouse

This conversion of the architect Mackintoshes Herald building is now a national centre dedicated to architecture and design. Housed over several floors, it holds temporary exhibitions in addition to housing the Charles Mackintosh interpretation centre.

Scottish Football Museum

In the country that invented the sport it’s only natural that there is a museum dedicated to it and here football fans can learn about the history of football. Included in the displays are tickets from the world’s first international football match tickets from 1872, a match between Scotland and England that resulted in a nil-nil draw.

Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery

Scotland’s oldest public museum was founded in 1807 and is part of the University of Glasgow. There are various collections including zoology, coins, scientific instruments and art. The Mackintosh House, a reconstruction of the interiors of the famous architects home, is also part of the site.