Glasgow Museums Resource Centre

Top ten things to see and do
Photograph showing a large store room with racks containing paintings stored here at GMRC.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC) is a purpose-built museum storage facility and visitor centre - here are our top ten things to see and do. Please note that all visits must be through a pre-booked tour.

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Bookable Behind The Scenes tour

Spend an hour on one of our tours and discover some of the highlights of the 1.4 million objects.

Wednesdays 2.30-3.30pm - free.

All tours and activities at GMRC must be booked in advance. Please email to reserve your place by using the button below or phone 0141 276 9300.

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Photograph showing visitors to GMRC looking at objects laid out on a table on a specialist or curator tour.

Bookable Specialist and Curator tours

Join our curators for an in-depth look at different themes and collections. The tours run every at Tuesday at 2.30pm.

All tours and activities at GMRC must be booked in advance. Please email to reserve your place by using the button below or phone 0141 276 9300.

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Photograph showing a drawer full of insects which are part of the Natural History collection.

Schools Workshops

We offer a programme of workshops for nurseries, schools and colleges. These cover a range of topics and include a visit to the stores. For more details of what's on offer and how to book, please visit our Learning website.

Learning
A collection of vintage TVs on shelves in one of the storage rooms at GMRC

Around 1.4 million objects

It is a vast building with rooms full of fantastic objects, from animals to armour, fine art to fossils, and much, much more. The main collections stored here are Art and Paintings, Arms and Armour, Natural History, Technology and World Cultures.

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Storage

Inside GMRC there are over 15,000 square metres of storage.

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Holiday programme for families

Join us for a tour of the stores to discover some of the amazing objects in this building. Places are limited and must be booked in advance.

Please email using the button below or phone 0141 276 9300 to book your place.

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Photograph showing a large store room with racks containing paintings stored here at GMRC.

Paintings

The are paintings stored here at GMRC by Botticelli, Raeburn and Howson.

A selection of birds which form part of the Natural History collection arranged on shelving.

Natural History Collection

Our Natural History Collection is vast and varied, with over 580,000 objects.

Photograph showing one of William Burrell's hand-written purchase books currently stored at GMRC.

42,000 Library Books

Stuck for something to read? There are approximately 42,000 books stored here.