SSCHD Archive Directory

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  • The Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections

    The Whisky Bond, 2 Dawson Road, Glasgow G4 9SS & Window on Heritage, Glasgow School of Art, Reid Building, 164 Renfrew Street, G3 6RQ

    Glasgow School of Art’s Archives and Collections is a rich resource for the study of art, design, architecture and art education. The archives varied holdings illustrate the history of the institution and the development of its teaching practices since it was established in 1845.

    Opening hours:

    The Reading Room at the Whisky Bond Monday-Friday, 10.00-16.00. Appointments must be booked in advance. 

    The Window on Heritage space Monday-Saturday, 10.00-16.00 (during exhibitions).

    GSA holds 5000 individual items in their collections, plus circa 100 deposited archive collections and 25,000 items in the GSA institutional archive.

    The majority of collections are in physical form including furniture, works on paper, sculpture, textiles, plaster casts, ceramics and metalwork, with a small amount of additional born digital material. They hold 280 works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh that form a Museums Galleries Scotland “Recognised Collection” of national significance.

    Many of the items that were acquired as teaching tools during the School’s lifetime are now held in GSA's Archives and Collections, including plaster casts, ceramics and metalwork, along with a wide range of artworks, architectural drawings, design work and archive material relating to former students and staff, including Charles Rennie Mackintosh - striving to reflect GSA’s continually evolving teaching practices by continuing to collect student work each year.

    GSA holds a comprehensive institutional archive featuring a wealth of GSA related documentation, including correspondence, photographs, ephemera, student records, minute books and reports, all of which provide an insight into GSA’s people, buildings and activities.

    Archive includes:

    Mackintosh art, design and architecture collection
    GSA institutional archive
    Art, design and architecture collection
    Records of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia architects
    Hill & Adamson photographs
    Duncan Brown photographs
    George & Cordelia Oliver collection 
    The Robert Trotter collection 
    Alan Dimmick collection 
    Needlework Development Scheme collection
    Fraser Taylor and The Cloth 

    For further information, contact GSA's user service teams by email: archives@gsa.ac.uk or call 0141 566 1418.

  • Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

    RCS Archives & Collections, The Whisky Bond, 2 Dawson Road, Glasgow, G4 9SS

    Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's archive is comprised of historical documents relating to the Conservatoire, research collections from performers and scholars and an historic musical instrument museum. Viewings are by appointment only.

    Key collections include:

    Jimmy Logan Collection
    Annie Ross Jazz Collection
    James Loughran Archive
    Erik Chisholm Archive
    Britannia Panopticon Music Hall Archive
    Raymond Leppard Archive
    John Wallace Collection
    John Webb Collection

    Viewings are strictly by appointment. For further information, contact Stuart Harris-Logan, Archives and Collections, by email: archives@rcs.ac.uk 

  • Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre Archive

    Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre, 129 Hill Street, Garnethill, Glasgow, G3 6UB

    Founded in 1987 and based in Garnethill Synagogue in Glasgow the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre aims to document and illustrate the religious, organisational, social, economic, political, cultural and family life of Jews in Scotland since the eighteenth century.

    SJAC’s diverse collections include old Synagogue minute books and registers, membership lists, photographs, oral histories, testimonies, annual reports of communal organisations, books of Scottish Jewish interest, friendly society regalia, personal papers, war medals, ceremonial keys, newspapers, magazines, trophies, plaques, paintings and sculptures, immigration and naturalisation papers, passports and correspondence.

    The Archives Centre houses the Family Tree of Scottish Jewry database of over 100,000 Scottish Jews. A consultation can be booked (charges apply).

    For further information, email: info@sjac.org.uk or call 0141 332 4911.

To discuss your archive or for more information, email Erika Silverman, Community Archivist: Erika.Silverman@glasgowlife.org.uk 

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