The first floor is home to facilities such as:
- the multimedia Object Cinema
- the History Discovery Centre
- the Study Centre.
First floor galleries cover the following subjects:
- Conflict & Consequence
- Cultural Survival
- Dutch Art
- Italian Art
- French Art
- La Faruk Madonna
- Every Picture Tells a Story
- Scottish Identity in Art
- Glasgow and the World
- Scotland’s First Peoples
- Sculpture Highlights and Picture Promenade