Glasgow Museums Resource Centre — Attraction in Scotland

The Museums Resource Centre is essentially a big warehouse for all the items in the Glasgow Museums collections which are not currently on display in one of Glasgow's museums. Visits are by arrangement, and if you can I recommend asking for a visit focussed on an area which particularly interests you. I have visited twice, once with a focus on the maritime collections. If you like ship models, you will need all your time to wander round the storeroom which houses these - there are just so many and the range is wide. Or maybe you like what as kids we referred to as the "Stuffies" the examples of the taxidermists' art - what ids at Kelvingrove is just a fraction of the collection - GMRC has a lot more stacked floor to ceiling. The Art collection is stored on huge pull out double sided frames, so you can see everything arts and all - and mind boggling it is. Don't pass up a chance to visit this. Please...

The GMRC - Glasgow Museum Resource Centre is where 98% of the treasures that are shown in the main museums in and around Glasgow are held before they go on show. It's an amazing place, the guy taking the tour was such a cool and friendly dude too. I had a wonderful time there, it felt like a real privilege to get a behind the scenes tour of the place and see all the amazing treasures, especially the art, the guide pulled out a big rack with Titian's and Bottichelli' originals, mind blown! Not to mention the ancient Egyptian and Roman wonders. Being so close to such priceless wonders in such an unlikely and private setting was amazing. Obviously the security is unreal there but that's to be expected. I can't recommend a...

It turns out that Glasgow has it's own relic warehouse where they might even be hiding their own Ark of the Covenant! I would highly recommend visiting the Museums Resource Centre as I went for pre-booked hour session on a Wednesday afternoon but the amount of curious artefacts and catalogued items will not leave you disappointed. Actually, members of the tour group were disappointed as an hour felt far too short to explore but then again the GMRC houses over 1.1 million objects from around the world so doing it all in one afternoon might be a bit of a challenge! It's definitely interesting and our guide was also very accomodating. This hidden hub in Nitshill certainly has a...