A new exhibition charting Scotland’s role in the development and growth of football has recently opened at the Kelvingrove Museum and Special Collections is delighted to contribute by loaning an important item. The 1691 edition of Scottish school-teacher David Wedderburn’s… Read More ›
You may have visited the Unrivalled Collection exhibition currently on display in the Hunterian Art Gallery. This show celebrates the first general guide to the Hunterian Museum. Compiled by Captain James Laskey (ca. 1760- 1829), it was published two hundred… Read More ›
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To celebrate the opening of the new Hunterian Art Gallery exhibition: ‘This Unrivalled Collection’: The Hunterian’s first catalogue, our latest Flickr set features relevant items from Special Collections, some of which feature in the exhibition. There will also be a… Read More ›
We are happy to announce our new exhibition in the library “Astronomy in the University of Glasgow”. Alexander Wilson became the first Regius Chair of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow in 1760. Since then the Department of Astronomy has… Read More ›
Today, the Design Museum’s Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things exhibition opens in London. On display as part of the exhibition is a design sketch from the Stoddard-Templeton Archive by Marion Dorn Ltd. Dorn was an influential interior and textile designer,… Read More ›
A new poster exhibition featuring treasures from the Scottish Theatre Archive is currently on display in the University Display area, Am Fosglan (Library entrance level). Founded in 1981, the Scottish Theatre Archive forms part of the Special Collections within the University… Read More ›
We are celebrating Black History Month with our new poster display in Am Fosglan (Level 2 of the Library) and our online display. Black History Month (BHM) is celebrated in October each year. Our display details our rich connections with… Read More ›
We are pleased to announce the Library’s current poster display “Maps of Glasgow: Historical to Digital” on the entrance level, in Am Fosglan. It features treasures from the University Library’s map collection and shows the growth of the city from a… Read More ›
Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd (SLD) is 10 years old this year. Visit the poster exhibition on level 2 of the Library and see how many Scots words you recognise and learn some new ones. SLD is the main research organisation… Read More ›
Our annotated first edition of Copernicus’ groundbreaking text On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Nuremberg: 1543) is currently on display at a fascinating exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. The Renaissance in Astronomy celebrates… Read More ›
