Collections Focus

The City of Glasgow owns one of the finest civic museum collections in Europe with the entire collection being recognised as being of national significance under the Scottish Government’s Museum Recognition Scheme.

Kelvin Hall will provide secure, stable, publicly accessible storage for approximately 400,000 objects previously stored in Glasgow Museums' Maryhill facility which had v​ery limited public access. 

The following collections are being prepared for their move to Kelvin Hall:

• Furniture
• Social History
• Transport & Technology
• Archaeology
• Education Collections
• World Cultures
• History
• Ceramic tiles
• Charles Rennie Macintosh - a substantially unaltered archive of his original designs.
• Room settings - including 17 interiors designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street tearooms.

The collections will mainly be in storage and access will be provided through a programme of tours, talks, collections study and learning activities. The public will also have the opportunity to view conservation work as it happens.​​