Join us on a tour to discover this very special building and some of the highlights of the 1.4 million treasures it holds. Tours last approximately 1 hour. These sessions are our general Wednesday weekly public tours which include a chance to see different areas of our collections.

Join Curator of European Arms and Armour, Ralph Moffat, to explore the fantastic collection housed at the Centre. From knights in armour to crossbows and rapiers, you’ll get up close and personal with some real objects - maybe for your first time ever.

Classical mythology is filled with a colourful array of LGBTQ+ characters, from immortal gods to tragic heroes. Join this tour through our fantastic collection as we explore paintings and sculptures featuring major figures from Greco-Roman myth and reality. As we examine these artworks, we will discuss what their stories possibly tell us about the understanding of queer identity in ancient times.

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. 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. Image: Detail of a sectioned model of RMS Aquitania CSG CIC Glasgow Life Museums Collection

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.

African myth and folklore play a central role in shaping cultural identity, belief systems and collective memory. Moving between historic wooden artefacts and contemporary works, this tour explores how African women, spiritual power and myth have been represented and, at times, misunderstood. Join Gallery Assistant and African art enthusiast Lizzie Eidson as she examines sculptural and painted depictions of African women across time, drawing on Ethiopian, Mende and wider African oral traditions, alongside Yoruba-inflected ideas, to consider how these narratives have been erased and reanimated in contemporary practice.