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The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in central Glasgow.

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April 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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The Saint Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in central Glasgow with Glasgow Cathedral in the background.

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January 17, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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The Glasgow Transport Museum's Infinite Velodrome. This is a metal Möbius Strip hanging from the ceiling of Zaha Hadid's magnificent Riverside Museum building displaying all sorts of bicycles from different eras of cycling.

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February 21, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum has many treasures in it, but this probably the one which most facinated me as a child. It's a suit of armour from Kiribati in Micronesia.

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July 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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#cuadrodeldía El ángel, 1881 (Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1833-98) #GlasgowMuseums Glasgow #art Vinculado a la 2ª fase del prerrafaelismo, muy atraído por la belleza y el romanticismo del Cristianismo medieval y la pureza decorativa de los primeros pintores italianos #FelizJueves
June 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Collar
Jessie Newbery
c1900; linen, silk, glass

Jessie Rowat Newbery was the creative driving force behind the establishment, in 1900, of the renowned Embroidery Department at the Glasgow School of Art.
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February 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Head of the Holy Loch
George Henry
1882; oil on canvas
Swooping seagulls form the focal point in the centre of this expansive view of the Holy Loch, a sea loch in Argyll and Bute.
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May 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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The body covering is made from coconut while the helmet, which is more for show than protection, is made from the inflated and then dried skin of a porcupine fish.

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July 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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celebrating 20c women artists
'Honesty Mirror'
Frances Macdonald
c1896; beaten tin, wood, glass

This extraordinary mirror never lies, ever! 🪞
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January 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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28 Jan: feast #otd of Julian of Cuenca - bishop, academic & basket-maker, d. 1208 (GlasgowMuseums)

Basket weaving saints don’t come along every day of the week.
January 28, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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Designed by Ian Begg and built in the Scots Baronial style as a homage to the Medieval Bishop's Castle which once occupied the same site, the museum was first opened in 1993.

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January 17, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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#fashion 📸
A Lady
Andrew Geddes
c1818; oil on canvas
Looking very fine in her white cotton Pelisse dress and a cap beneath her leghorn straw bonnet, this lady - identity unknown - holds us in her steady gaze.
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February 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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interiors & the home
Interior, The White Sofa
Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell
c1930
oil on board
Two interiors in one! Cadell’s ‘The Red Chair’ - c1922 - is on the floor, leaning against the wall behind the arm of the white sofa.
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January 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Christmas and New Year of 1931
Jessie Marion King
1931; lithograph, watercolour, paper
Angelic season's greetings from the Taylors - Jessie Marion King and Ernest Archibald Taylor 💞🌟🎄
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December 19, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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November 2, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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Designed by Ian Begg and built in the Scots Baronial style as a homage to the Medieval Bishop's Castle which once occupied the same site, the museum was first opened in 1993.

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April 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Virgin and Child
Southern Netherlands, now Belgium
c1510; wood, ground, polychromy, gilding, gemstones
Sweet statuettes like this were a speciailty of the workshops of Mechelen/Malines.
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May 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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“Hen Party II” by Beryl Cook (British) - Oil on board / 1995 - Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (Glasgow, Scotland) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #BerylCook #Cook #BritishArt #GlasgowMuseums #GlasgowMuseumsResourceCentre #artText #art #1990sArt #BritishArtist #WomenPaintingWomen
The painting captures a specifically British pre-wedding custom, the hen party, but artist Beryl Cook treats it as more than comic spectacle. She makes working-class and middle-class women the stars of public life by being visible, celebratory, self-possessed, and fully entitled to pleasure. Her art often centered women in pubs, clubs, cafés, and streets, recording the sociability of everyday life with affection rather than condescension. Five women cluster together in a tight, cheerful group, filling nearly the whole picture. Their bodies are rounded and buoyant, with Cook’s signature exaggeration making them feel larger than life, confident, and impossible to ignore. At the center is the bride-to-be, wearing a large tall white party hat trimmed with balloons, ribbons, and floral decorations. The others lean close around her in bright dresses and tops, their faces rosy, amused, and alert with shared excitement. Red lipstick, flushed cheeks, and glossy accessories heighten the mood of a night out before marriage. The scene feels crowded but affectionate, with no background distraction pulling attention away from the women’s camaraderie. Cook turns the group into a monument of laughter, ritual, and collective female presence. These are not idealized bodies or polished society beauties. They are vivid, social, ordinary women made unforgettable through humor, scale, and warmth. Made in 1995, “Hen Party II” belongs to Cook’s mature period, when her instantly recognizable style had become one of the most widely loved in Britain. A plausible real-life spark for this image survives in local Plymouth memory when a specific woman’s 1995 hen night reportedly inspired both this painting and a related work. That rootedness matters. Cook was not inventing fantasy women from a distance. She was observing the social worlds around her and transforming them into democratic icons. The humor is real, but so is the dignity for a record of female friendship and public joy.
March 29, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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28 Jan: feast #otd of Julian of Cuenca - bishop, academic & basket-maker, d. 1208 (GlasgowMuseums)

Basket weaving saints don’t come along every day of the week.
January 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Mirror case; valve de miroir
"Attack on the Castle of Love"
French, c1340; ivory, gilt
Rich with imagery of courtship, love, sexual desire! Atop is the God of Love & heart piercing arrow💘
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February 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Heading to work Christmas dinner & wishing I had something as warm and festive as this red silk velvet dolman in #GlasgowMuseums collection to wear on the freezing bus
Side view of a woman’s mantle or dolman in red silk velvet plush trimmed with brown marabou feathers. Wide sleeve flared from elbow. Shaped and cut to go over a small bustle.
December 13, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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Seen lurking in Glasgow yesterday.
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February 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Yet another good reason to visit GoMA in Glasgow… I’m biased of course but the team there do such great work on such vital projects!
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January 24, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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L'implorante
Camille Claudel
c1898; bronze
The inspiration for this affecting sculpture was intensely personal to the sculptor, Camille Claudel.
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March 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Choose 20 works of visual art that have stayed with you. One artwork per day. #artsky

Day16: Something slightly more contemporary today ...
#Patriots by #PeterHowson (1991) #GlasgowMuseums
July 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM