Join this tour of the Ship Model store to see Clyde shipbuilding in miniature with a detailed look at liners, paddle steamers and battleships. Find out more about how ship models were made and used. 2.30-3.30pm Glasgow Museums Resource Centre FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Book your place by emailing [email protected] with the name and date of the tour your would like to attend.

Join this tour of the Ship Model store to look at models of Clyde steamers from the 1840s to the 1920s. From simple early half hulls to complex display models with full internal detailing this tour looks at the fascinating stories of both the ship models and the vessels they represent. 2.30-3.30pm Glasgow Museums Resource Centre FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Booking TBC. Please check back here for further updates.

Come and see some of the preparatory designs that the Glasgow Boys made for the murals they carried out for Glasgow’s new City Chambers, finished in 1888. The Glasgow Boys, having carried out murals for the International Exhibition in Glasgow in 1888 were offered the commission. Their murals reanimated Glasgow’s ancient and medieval past, and controversially addressed the modern industrial city too. Led by Curator of British Art, Jo Meacock. Image: E. A. Walton, 'The Horse Fair (sketch)', c. 1899, oil on canvas. © CSG CIC Glasgow Life Museums and Libraries Collection. 2.30-3.30pm Glasgow Museums Resource Centre FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Booking TBC. Please check back here for further updates.

Discover the inspiring stories of Glasgow’s suffragettes and suffragists. Join Social History Curator Fiona Hayes on this tour to find out who they were, why the vote was so important and what they did to get it. 2.30-3.30pm Glasgow Museums Resource Centre FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Booking TBC. Please check back here for further updates.

Canton fans, created for export to the Western world, are considered a unique form of craftsmanship combining Eastern and Western traditions in an intriguing way. It makes them one of the many luxuries China has exported to the world throughout history. These highly decorative fans, often selling for hundreds or thousands of pounds at auction houses, were extremely popular accessories in the 18th and 19th centuries. Join our Curator of Chinese Art Yupin Chung and Curator of Dress and Textiles Rebecca Quinton for a fascinating tour looking at a selection of high-quality fans made in Canton, the present-day Guangzhou, to explore the link between two cultures. Image: Hundred Faces Fan, about 1850-70. © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection. 2.30-3.30pm Glasgow Museums Resource Centre FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Booking TBC. Please check back here for further updates.

This always popular tour offers a chance to look in detail at works by 'The Four': Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret Macdonald, Frances Macdonald and James Herbert McNair. From early collaborative graphic works to exquisite watercolours, furniture design and interior decoration this tour led by Alison Brown, Curator for European Decorative Art and Design 1800-present, gives an insight into the history, making and symbolism of their work and of some of their contemporaries. Early booking is advised. Image: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 'Part Seen, Imagined Part', 1896. © CSG CIC Glasgow Life Museums Collection. 2.30-3.30pm Glasgow Museums Resource Centre FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Book your place by emailing [email protected] with the name and date of the tour your would like to attend.

This tour celebrates the work and collection of Joyce Laing, Scotland's pioneering art therapist. It will review her Art Extraordinary collection and work in Barlinnie Prison's Special Unit from the 1970s to 1980s 2.30-3.30pm Glasgow Museums Resource Centre FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Book your place by emailing [email protected] with the name and date of the tour your would like to attend.

Come face to face with a large iron meteorite from the early days of the solar system, be dazzled by a giant amethyst geode that formed when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, explore fossil plants and trees from Glasgow's primeval equatorial rainforest and marvel at an amazing collection of glow-in-the-dark rocks and minerals.

Discover early Victorian fashions from colourful shot silk dresses to beaded bags. Continuing our new Chronology of Fashion join curator Rebecca Quinton in this exploration of garments, accessories and fashion plates from the 1840s.