Join Curator of Numismatics Jesper Ericsson for this week's Friday Focus about the British Aluminium Company, its deep roots in Scotland, connections to @uofglasgow and historical links to the British Empire.

Friday 17 May
1pm - 1.30pm
Online via Zoom

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'Studio Interior' by Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, c.1924.

With its vivid colours and bold composition, this work is typical of the elegant interiors Cadell painted between 1920 and 1927.

See it for free in the #Hunterian Art Gallery University of Glasgow.

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Take a #Mackintosh Moment and enjoy 'Stork’s-bill, Holy Island’ from The #Hunterian collection University of Glasgow.

This is one of a number of botanical drawings by the Scottish artist.

🖼️ Charles Rennie #Mackintosh , ‘Stork’s-bill, Holy Island’, 1901. Pencil and watercolour on paper.

What does it mean to re-play something - an event, a film, a history, a politics, a building, a body, a set of gestures, an earth, a life, a landscape?

Explore this question at Re-Playing it Again, a symposium at CCA this week!

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Don’t miss your last chance to see ‘The Trembling Museum’ at the Hunterian Art Gallery. Check it out this weekend, closing end of day Sunday 19 May.

‘The Trembling Museum’ forms one of a number of initiatives in which The Hunterian is reconsidering how it represents its collections and contributes meaningfully to contemporary questions around ownership and representation.

Interested in seeing how an exhibition comes together?

Join Hunterian exhibition designer Chris MacLure for tomorrow's Friday Focus talk at 1pm to hear how 'The Trembling Museum' design and layout came to be.

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The Hunterian contemporary art programme responds to and interacts with The Hunterian collections, spaces and histories to make new connections and to reflect people, ideas and stories.

Don't miss 'The Trembling Museum' at the Hunterian Art Gallery, open until 20 May.

Find out more about the 'Weegie' shrimp named thanks to exciting #Hunterian University of Glasgow and National Museums Scotland research published by Royal Society of Edinburgh!👇

Ancient shrimp named ‘weegie’ in honour of Glasgow origins.
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The Hunterian has commissioned a new body of work from Glasgow-based artist Cathy Wilkes as part of the IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund. The commission will form a new exhibition, opening at the Hunterian Art Gallery this June. #cathywilkes

📣 The #Hunterian Museum, Hunterian Art Gallery and #Mackintosh House University of Glasgow will open at 11.00am on Wednesday 8 May and Saturday 11 May to allow for essential staff training.

Sorry for any disappointment!

🤖 If you're visiting Kelvin Hall this week, come and see our free 'Scottish Aluminium' display.

It features some 'phenomenal' aluminium items including a Japanese 'Easel Back' toy robot on loan from Glasgow Museums and a spoon made from the wreckage of a zeppelin!

We’re delighted to be appointed as one of the partners for Imperial War Museums’ art commissioning programme, alongside the Glynn Vivian in Swansea; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead and Ulster University in Derry-Londonderry. #cathywilkes

May the fourth be with you...

#StarWarsDay

🌞 We're open as usual this bank holiday weekend! Come and see us on the beautiful University of Glasgow campus.

The #Hunterian Museum, Hunterian Art Gallery and Mackintosh House are open from 10am until 5pm today, Saturday and Sunday. Closed Monday.

Don't miss today's Friday Focus with Mackintosh curator Joseph Sharples who'll discuss artists Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and the incredible reassemblage of their Glasgow home, the Mackintosh House.

Online at 1pm
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'Tulips in a Pottery Vase' by Samuel John Peploe, c.1910–14.

This is one of Peploe's series of still lifes featuring tulips and fruit, painted against brilliant blue or yellow backgrounds.

See this one for free in the #Hunterian Art Gallery University of Glasgow.

#HAGReframed #Changes