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Happy #NationalDogDay! Today, we're celebrating our furry friends with a powerful piece from our collection. Created by Sidney Robert Chilvers (1884-1961) this British poster from the First World World sought to encourage people to recycle and repurpose waste.

🎀 Happy National Bow Tie Day! 🎀 Today, we celebrate in style with a bronze bust of Greenock-born virtuoso violinist and conductor, Henri Temianka. Created by Miriam Baker, this sculpture was gifted to the museum by the Temianka family in honor of his 110th birthday.

Looking for an #Oasis? We've got just the ticket! 🏝️😉 From our collection we have a photograph of a Tunisian oasis c.1910 by photographic studio Lehnert & Landrock who were active in Tunisia and Egypt during the early 1900s.

S2 Getting closer to the cabinets of curiosities Inverclyde Academy The Watt Institution

It was fantastic to have S2 Inverclyde Academy Design & Technology Department Inverclyde Academy at The Watt Institution today as part of MuseumsGalleriesScot Marseum project! ☄️🏛️

Fab visit to The Watt Institution today to meet colleagues and discuss possible partnerships and opportunities for teen engagement - I’ll definitely be back to see more of the great artefacts on display!

Thanks to the The Watt Institution, this very unusual specimen found its way to Inverclyde Academy for lunch today. S2 pupils have really benefited from our visits to the museum this week and are looking forward to taking their learning forwards in Inverclyde Academy Design & Technology Department

In celebration of National Galleries of Scotland 'An Irish Impressionists | Lavery on Location', we're sharing a piece from our own collection. 'The Downs, Epsom, 1922' Sir John Lavery

This week's Art UK #OnlineArtExchange is Yellow to celebrate 80 years of The Harris’s Pauline in The Yellow Dress. We've selected 'Summer Blossoms.' by Jessie Alexandra Dick. She was born in Largs in 1896 and taught painting and drawing The Glasgow School of Art until 1959.

Today is World Shorebirds Day! The Eskimo Curlew (Numenius borealis) was once common in North America but hasn't been seen since 1963 and is presumed extinct due to overhunting and habitat loss. Sadly, 50% of the world's shorebird species are in decline. World Shorebirds Day

Check out our latest video on making dandelion paint! 🌼 Inspired by a specimen collected on our museum grounds in 1886, we’ll show you how to turn these everyday flowers into eco-friendly paint using the historic lake pigment process. youtu.be/UNOUdtlpDRs?si…

Today’s #OnlineArtExchange is family & domestic interiors. We've selected 'Le goûter' (Afternoon tea) by French painter Lucien Simon (1861-1945). It was painted around 1906-7 at the artists home at Finesterre and the models are his own children.

We were thrilled to welcome St Mary’s to the Watt for our Fantastic Fossils workshop, part of the 'Reanimating the Past' MuseumsGalleriesScot project. Pupils utilised technology using AR, microscopes, and created their own fossils from 3D prints! A brilliant day of discovery🦕

Congrats to Wemyss Bay Station for winning Small Station of the Year at the National Rail Awards in London! 🚂 The Category A listed station, designed by James Miller in 1903 for the Caledonian Railway, is seen here in its early 20th-century interior.

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is painted portraits for the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2024 National Portrait Gallery. We've selected Alan Ramsay's 'Portrait of a Gentleman in a Blue Coat' 1741, part of our current exhibition 'Wonder' curated by Alison Watt.