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CHRISTMAS LUNCH AT KELVINGROVE Friends and their guests are cordially invited to a festive afternoon in the café at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, where you will enjoy a three-course Christmas lunch, including a glass of fizz on arrival and wine at the table. There will also be a complimentary Prize Draw and the opportunity […]

Ailsa Turner returns to our lecture programme to present her illustrated talk on the “Glasgow Boys” and “Girls”! These groups of late nineteenth century artists formed lasting friendships and opened the doors of the art establishment to new ways of exploring scenes of rural and modern life, to the expressive role of colour and to

James McNaught, the Associate Director and Head of Glasgow and The West at Lyon & Turnbull, be giving our September online lecture on William McInnes, one of the many public-spirited citizens that have enriched the Collections held within Kelvingrove. Between 1910 and 1944 McInnes amassed a significant collection of French Impressionist, Glasgow Boy and Scottish

Few artists have recorded their personal lives in such detail as Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Born in Mexico, at the age of 18 she was involved in a bus accident that resulted in pain and constant threats of illness for the rest of her life. Painting became her great passion and her bright, vivid and sometimes

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has been postponed to Tuesday 2nd August. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience that this change may make. Most museums are monuments to a system that privileges some people over others and creates a narrative about the identity of nations or cities that institutions seek to project and

The Camel Caravan tapestry is one of the biggest tapestries in the Burrell Collection. It is also one of the most enjoyed and approachable tapestries with its depiction of fantastical camels and exotic people. In recent years the textile conservation world has been looking at how tapestries are displayed and discussions about this has helped

Lachlan Goudie will take you in a fast fling through 5,000 years of Scottish Art. In a passionate and personal account, brimming with fascinating characters and historical events, Lachlan will describe how creativity shaped Scotland’s past, its culture and its destiny. Scottish art never existed in isolation. Lachlan will reveal how Scotland’s artists and craftsmen

The street names of Glasgow’s Merchant City are a permanent reminder of the personal and corporate fortunes that were made on the back of the tobacco trade. What is much harder to extract from the annals of history, are the names of those enslaved people on whose lives these fortunes were made. This talk will

The old town of Nuremberg is a medieval walled city with an impressive imperial castle, Gothic churches and timbered houses, all carefully restored. Birthplace of arguably Germany’s greatest artist, Albrecht Dürer, it was also home to many other artists and craftsmen, sculptors in wood, stone and metal. City of mastersingers and poets, it is full

GUIDED TOUR AND LUNCH ON THE TALL SHIP, GLENLEEWHERE: The Tall Ship, Glenlee, berthed next to the Riverside Museum, Glasgow G3 8RSWHEN: Wednesday 16th February 2022 TIME: 10.45am for 11.00am COST: £25 per head (Friends), £30 per head (Guests)Friends and their guests are invited to attend a fully Guided Tour at 11am, lasting approximately 45