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#MuseumPassion

This month, we took part in #MuseumPassion, a social media initiative to get museums talking about the items in their collections that they are

27 October 2020

Happy Birthday CRM! Top Ten Mackintosh Masterpieces

Happy birthday Mr Mackintosh! Today we celebrate 150 years since this leading Art Nouveau architect, artist and designer was born. The city will continue to

7 June 2018

Projects and Research

Metal Work in the Mack

Archives and Collections Assistant Cat Doyle shares a fascinating discovery she made last week when retrieving records for a research group! The records of our

28 March 2018

News

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

Well, the big day is almost here and GSA Archives and Collections are winding down for a well earned rest! You may already have been following

22 December 2017

Cataloguing and Digitisation

Cataloguing GSA: The School extension 1926 and building the Vic

Here’s Rachael Jones with another update from her cataloguing work! The records we hold of the construction of the Mackintosh Building between 1896-1909 hold the

6 October 2017

GSA and the First World War: Fundraising on the Home Front – Part 2

It was a sad day yesterday at the Archives and Collections when we said goodbye to our fantastic Project Assistant Fiona Hall. With the help

27 April 2017

Conservation

Plaster Casts on the Move!

“This makes the casts in fact priceless” Recently some of the GSA Archives and Collection’s plaster casts have moved from the Mackintosh Building to

13 July 2016

Conservation

Objects of Survival: Treating and Re-cataloguing Fire-Damaged Ceramics

GU placement Hillary Fortin provides an update on her work treating and re-cataloguing our fire damaged ceramics. As part of my work placement with the

27 May 2016

How a camel made it to the Glasgow School of Art

Archives can be amazing places where not only objects and records are stored, but where stories can be re-discovered and re-used. The GSA Archives and

6 May 2016

Conservation

GSA Photographic Archive and the restoration of the Mackintosh Building

Peter Trowles, the GSA Mackintosh Curator, reflects on the current importance of the GSA Photographic Archive in informing the work of Page & Park and the

2 December 2015

Conservation

The Unexpected Complexity of the Art of Restoration

This week we are continuing to look at the process of restoration and its complexities. To highlight some of the difficulties of such work, today we

26 November 2015

Projects and Research

Informing Restoration: GSA Archives and the Mackintosh Building

Mackintosh Curator, Peter Trowles, discusses his research into the GSA Archives and how this unique collection of records and artefacts that tracks the history of

18 November 2015

The Blog

#MuseumPassion

Happy Birthday CRM! Top Ten Mackintosh Masterpieces

Metal Work in the Mack

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

Cataloguing GSA: The School extension 1926 and building the Vic

GSA and the First World War: Fundraising on the Home Front – Part 2

Plaster Casts on the Move!

Objects of Survival: Treating and Re-cataloguing Fire-Damaged Ceramics

How a camel made it to the Glasgow School of Art

GSA Photographic Archive and the restoration of the Mackintosh Building

The Unexpected Complexity of the Art of Restoration

Informing Restoration: GSA Archives and the Mackintosh Building

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