Museums · Central Scotland
The Open Museum
The Open Museum — community museum in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Richard Sutcliffe — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
- Nearest railway station
- Nitshill · 0.3 km
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
The Open Museum is a museum in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1989. Wikidata describes it as: "community museum in Glasgow, Scotland, UK". Coordinates: 55.8115°, -4.3658°.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Open Museum is a community museum in Glasgow, Scotland. The Open Museum is run out of the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre. It brings museum collections beyond the limits of the museum walls and out into the Glasgow community. The Open Museum is one of ten museums under the broader title the Glasgow Museums and many consider the Open Museum to be the “outreach arm.” Founded in 1989, the Glasgow Open Museum's goal is to let the public explore their archive without necessarily having to come to the museum. The people of Glasgow are allowed to use the objects for their own research and exhibitions.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
Since 1989, the museum has worked with schools, senior centres, businesses, and prisons in addition to encouraging the public to engage with staff on community projects that explore contemporary issues that impact Glasgow. The Glasgow Open Museum's goal is to create a more fluid relationship with the public and to bring the Museum to those that cannot make their way inside the museum. In America a trend of artist inspired exhibits helped museums bring their pieces from the archives onto display, but never have American museums let the local public interact with the objects in the archives the way the Open Museum does.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 55.8115, -4.3658
- District
- Glasgow City
- Postcode
- G53 7LS
- Parliamentary constituency
- Glasgow South West
- Established
- 1989
- Nearest railway station
- Nitshill — 0.3 km
- Official site
- glasgowcan.org
Sources
- wikidata: Q79806690 (CC0)
- wikipedia: The Open Museum (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is The Open Museum?
- The Open Museum is in central Scotland, United Kingdom (postcode G53 7LS).
- When was The Open Museum built?
- Built or established in 1989.
- How do I get to The Open Museum?
- The nearest railway station is Nitshill, about 0.3 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode G53 7LS.