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  • Duncan Dornan to retire as Head of Glasgow Life Museums and Collections
    22 July 2024
    Duncan Dornan is on the left receiving the 2023 Art Fund Museum of the Year prize for Glasgow’s Burrell Collection from artist Sir Grayson Perry at a ceremony at the British Museum in London.
  • Merchant City Festival draws in 35,000 people
    21 July 2024
    A brass band dressed in gold performs on a street
  • Strategy to support future of Glasgow’s cultural sector launched
    10 July 2024
    Dancers on stage. Scottish Dance Theatre perform Moving Cloud at the opening night of Celtic Connections festival, 2023.
  • Merchant City Festival confirms spectacular 2024 programme
    2 July 2024
    A performer in a brightly coloured outfit made of pom-poms stands in front of a 1700s building. A sign for Merchant Square can be seen behind the performer.
  • 40,000 people attend the Glasgow Mela at Kelvingrove Park
    24 June 2024
    A group of dancers in colourful outfits performing on the main stage at the Glasgow Mela.
  • Elder Park Library and Community Hub to reopen following £4 million restoration
    20 June 2024
  • Subway carriage moves to its new home at Glasgow’s transport museum
    14 June 2024
  • Glasgow Life announces Summer of Events and Summer of Fun programmes
    10 June 2024
  • Glasgow Life update on Gaza
    5 June 2024
  • Glasgow Life volunteers enhance lives in the city
    3 June 2024
  • Special book of Ukrainian translations of Robert Burns donated to Glasgow’s Mitchell Library
    24 May 2024
    Special Collections Librarian, Susan Taylor at The Mitchell Library holding a copy of Robert Burns: Selected Works, she is standing in the middle of the two authors of the book, Hanna Dyka and Dr Peter Kormylo
  • First major exhibition, Discovering Degas, set to open at The Burrell Collection
    23 May 2024
    An image of a work by Edgar Degas called Jockeys in the Rain, it shows fivehorses preparing to race