"In storage", but on display

October 13 2013

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Picture: BG

I was in Scotland again last week, and did a bit of filming in Glasgow Museums Resource Centre for The Culture Show. Regular readers won't be surprised to hear that I get excited about a museum store - so many things to find - but the one in Glasgow is supremely exciting: it's the only store in the country which lets in the public.

If there's a picture you want to see that isn't on display in one of Glasgow's museums (and only 2% of their collection is on display at any one time) you can simply wander along to the storage facility and someone will show you the picture? And it was paid for by the local authority. How enlightened is that? Normally, museum stores are shrouded in secrecy, with the art stuck there in darkness, pretty much forever. All museums should follow Glasgow's lead, don't you think?


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