8th April 2024
MuSE tour guide Anne van Hoose shares her favourite artefacts on display at Glasgow University’s Hunterian Museum I’ve been a MuSE tour guide for two years at the Hunterian Museum on campus. MuSE tours, which are given throughout the week and sometimes on weekends, take place in the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery. I specialise ...
12th April 2023
To commemorate the 400th birthday of the first printed edition of William Shakespeare’s collected plays in 1623, the ‘First Folio’ will go on public display at the Hunterian Art Gallery on 22 and 23 April 2023. The University of Glasgow’s First Folio is currently held in the Library’s Archives & Special Collections, as one of ...
21st February 2023
ART ELIZABETH PRICE: UNDERFOOT | HUNTERIAN | UNTIL APRIL 16 | FREE Solo exhibition focusing on the textile heritage of Glasgow’s industrial age TUAN ANDREW NYUGEN | CCA | UNTIL MARCH 25 | FREE Fragments of a story about the memories and desires of West African colonial soldiers sent to combat Vietnamese liberation uprisings in ...
16th November 2022
Finn reflects back on the Hunterian’s exhibition, celebrating 40 years since the publication of Alasadair Gray’s Lanark. **This exhibition is no longer open to the public** Alasdair Gray’s Lanark: A Life in Four Books is a novel built out of parts that ought not to fit together. It is an autobiography embedded inside a fantasy. ...
12th October 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan brings you the highlights of what’s happening in the city. ART CHARLIE HAMMOND: WORKAROUND | HUNTERIAN | UNTIL OCTOBER 16 | FREE Solo exhibition for the Glasgow-based artist, exploring the relationship between art and labour MAJD ABDEL HAMID: MUSCLE MEMORY | CCA | UNTIL NOVEMBER 5 | FREE Embroidered work based on ...
20th September 2022
Our Culture Editor brings you the highlights of what’s happening in the city. Moving to Glasgow affords you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the plethora of cultural delights this city has to offer. Here are some of the following month’s offerings, hopefully providing a balance of both interesting and affordable events. ART ALASDAIR GRAY’S ...
16th February 2022
Patrick Gaffey outlines the real danger posed by climate change to so many species following a trip to the Hunterian Museum. It’s no secret that the climate emergency places the natural world in a dire situation. A recent study found that it has put one third of all plant and animal life at risk of ...
