Last time I was in Glasgow (2008), I spent most of the short trip visiting the Kibble Education and Care Centre, researching my great-grandfather Lewis Grant (aka Pop) and other boys who emigrated to South Australia as farm apprentices. This weekend I had time for more general sightseeing. How lovely it is to enter a museum when you've been wandering about in snow and hail! |
Pop's family lived in a red sandstone tenement at Maryhill prior to WWI, so it was interesting to learn more about life in these communities at the Tenement House. However, that particular tenement was more of a middle class dwelling, whereas the Grants' home would have been more like the 'single end' replica I saw at the People's Palace. The People's Palace is Glasgow's dedicated social history museum and I love this quote from Lord Rosebury at its opening in 1898: [It shall be] a palace of pleasure and imagination around which the people may place their affections and which may give them a home on which their memory may rest. The St Mungo Museum of Religous Life and Art was interesting too, but of all the places I visited this weekend, I was most impressed by the clever curation at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. I've created a slideshow of highlights below, with commentary for my museum pals. For the rest of this week I will be based in Stirling, visiting the university and five different schools within driving distance from there. |