Upcoming

 You are invited to attend this special FoGM event at the Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre.  Award-winning art historian and curator Alice Strang will talk about her new National Galleries of Scotland book, The Scottish Colourists: Art and Life. This is the story of the interwoven lives of Samuel John Peploe, John Duncan Fergusson, George Leslie […]

Image: Copyright of Glasgow Life You are invited to attend this special FoGM event at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow. As well as viewing the exhibition Still Glasgow, we will have a curator-led tour with tea/coffee and cakes afterwards. The exhibition has photography at its core and looks at Glasgow,

Find out about the many interesting events that led up to the mounting of the 1901 exhibition which was the second international exhibition to be held in Glasgow. The exhibition was to be a celebration of the art and industry of the19th century, at the beginning of the 20th century, and many countries from across

Featuring examples from Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum’s rich collection of French Impressionist paintings of flowers and the natural environment, this talk will consider the inspiration for Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Cassatt and their colleagues of parks and private gardens, as well as of cultivated and wild nature in rural contexts. It will explore the

Civil unrest and religious tension between Scotland, England, and Ireland led to The Hanoverians succeeding the Stuarts as monarchs of Great Britain in 1714, forcing the remaining Stuart family to live in exile. A series of failed rebellions during the eighteenth century by Stuart supporters, known as ‘Jacobites’, led to support for the Jacobite cause

Friends and their guests are cordially invited to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum to enjoy this fun-filled event which will include a Friends’ tour of the fabulous ‘Barbie’ Exhibition followed by a two-course lunch in the KG Café, including a glass of pink fizz on arrival, wine at the table, and cupcakes with tea/coffee to

GSA Archives, The Whisky Bond © mcateer photograph The Glasgow School of Art is delighted to invite the Friends of Glasgow Museums for an exclusive private tour of the GSA Archives and Collections. Members will have the chance to view the unique Helen Cargill Thompson Silversmithing and Jewellery collection and to hear more about the

All Friends are cordially invited to attend the Friends of Glasgow Museums 2026 Annual General Meeting, which will include the presentation of FoGM’s Annual Report and Accounts, nominations for election to the Executive Committee, and a special PowerPoint illustrating our society’s activities and events over the past year. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served

Friends are cordially invited to join us at Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall to where Lost Glasgow’s Norry Wilson will lead us on a fascinating tour of vanished architectural landscapes, sharing captivating stories from the archives and poignant images of some of the city’s lost and forgotten buildings. Journalist and social historian Norry Wilson has had a

As a teenager in the mid 2000s, the Austrian artist Katharina Mayrhofer found a table in the attic of her family’s inn in Aching, Upper Austria. This discovery led her to unearth a dark chapter in her family’s history: the fervent Nazi affiliation of her great-grandfather Josef Kaltenhauser and the suspected looting of his neighbours’,