Opening hours
| Day | Opens | Closes |
| Mon | 10:00am - 5:00pm | |
| Tue | 10:00am - 5:00pm | |
| Wed | 10:00am - 5:00pm | |
| Thu | 10:00am - 5:00pm | |
| Fri | 10:00am - 5:00pm | |
| Sat | Closed | |
| Sun | Closed | |
We can bring a travelling display to your local shopping centre, library, community centre, care home etc. We welcome your ideas for a pop-up event or a special project.
You can borrow a kit box if you can say yes to all of these:
- You work with people in a health, care, community
- You work within the Glasgow City Council boundary
- You can collect the Kit from Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
- You can book a friendly Introductory session
Accessible toilets
Baby changing
Baby feeding
Cloakroom
Hearing loop
If you use British Sign Language, you can watch a British sign language introduction to the Open Museum
Photography and video recording
Use the Traveline Scotland journey planner to plan your visit by public transport.
By Train
GMRC is a short walk from Nitshill train station, and the path is clearly signposted. Trains run regularly between Nitshill and Glasgow Central train station every day except Sunday.
By Bus
First Bus services 10 and 57 stop near the venue.
Glasgow stories
- Cafes
- Canals
- Childcare
- Childhood
- Cinemas
- Evacuee Suitcase
- General Life
- Glasgow Coat of Arms
- Holidays
- Life Celebrations
- Looking Good
- A Night Out
- Parks of Glasgow
- Pub Culture
- Schools Then and Now
- Shipbuilding
- Shopping
- Tenement Life
- Transport
- Washday
Stories from around the world
- Animals of the World
- Before Chinatown
- Games of the World
- Pakistan
- Travel
- World Religions – Bahai, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism
- World Spices
Themed kits
- Animal Tracks
- Archaeology
- Big Bugs
- Charms and Amulets
- Crystals
- Cycling
- Fabric of our Society
- Enigma
- Folklore
- Football
- Fossils from the Sea
- Medicine Chest
- LGBT
- Romans
- Photography
- Sports
- Storyteller’s Luggage
- Stone Age Technology
- Visual Eyes
History kits
- Butter Hands
- Crofting Life
- 50s Music
- The Fifties
- The Sixties
- The Seventies
- The Eighties
- Golden Oldies
- Toy Town
- Up in Smoke
- WW1
- WW2
Kit store opening hours
- Tuesdays from 10am-4pm
- Wednesdays from 10am-4pm
Location
Woodhead Road, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Glasgow, G53 7NN
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Benny at Kelvin Hall
Benny Lynch was Scotland’s first boxing world champion. Drop in anytime between 1-3pm to see these incredible sporting artefacts, watch clips of his fight on a big screen, stay for a talk about the campaign to erect a statue in the city and even try your hand at some boxing training with our qualified instructors.
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