🤖 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

'Loch Lomond and Ben Lomond’ by Horatio McCulloch, 1846.

McCulloch's dramatic, often romantic views did much to popularise Scottish landscape painting in the Victorian era.

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

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'Trembling Conversations' brings together an incredible lineup of contemporary practitioners to reflect on the themes and ideas raised in 'The Trembling Museum'.

Vanessa Onwuemezi Jelena Sofronijevic Tawona Sithole @grahameatough @tiwaniart #leorobinson #miekzwamborn

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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 26 April
1pm - 1.30pm
Online via Zoom

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'Le Viole Persan' by John Duncan Fergusson, 1909.

This striking portrait belongs to the series of decorative, boldly coloured female studies Fergusson painted between 1908 and 1910.

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

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Delighted to return the Jamaican Giant Galliwasp specimen from our #Hunterian collection University of Glasgow to The University of the West Indies. The historic handover took place today in our study centre at Kelvin Hall. UWI Global Campus Institute of Jamaica

Could you carve a better looking elephant than this? I don't think I could in all honesty! :-) Find out more about this #token and others The Hunterian in the Friday focus talk this Friday 1-1.30pm! eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-focus…

Charles Rennie #Mackintosh 's design for a stencilled mural decoration, created for Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, in 1896. #KateCranston90

From The #Hunterian collection University of Glasgow.

Adire is traditionally an indigo-dyed hand-woven cotton fabric. The eleko method, used on both adire textiles featured in ‘The Trembling Museum’, employs a starch resist of cassava paste.

Top: Adire Eleko 'Sun Bebe', 1980s, Nigeria
Bottom: Adire Eleko 'Jubilee', 1980s, Nigeria

'Horseman and Sailing Ship', 1908, by Oskar Kokoschka.

Now on display at the #Hunterian Art Gallery University of Glasgow.

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In addition to works of art and design from all over Africa, 'The Trembling Museum' features a number of historical musical instruments. One of the first objects visitors encounter in the exhibition is this rare 19th century memel kettle drum from southern Ghana.

The carving of miniature sculptures in dense thornwood for Nigeria's tourist art market was devised by Yoruba artist and museum conservator Justus Akeredolu during the 1930s. The carvings depict Nigerians going about the everyday activities of both village and urban life.

In April, we are co-organising a conference with the The Hunterian & Institute of Art & Law 'From Scotland to the World: Repatriation and Museums' 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌍

Returns to countries and communities raise the question of best practice on repatriation...

Want to know more? 👇
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