This Is My GlasgowThe Glasgow Transport Museum's Infinite Velodrome. This is a metal Möbius Strip hanging from the ceiling of Zaha Hadid's magnificent Riverside Museum building displaying all sorts of bicycles from different eras of cycling.
The Saint Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in central Glasgow with Glasgow Cathedral in the background. Designed by Ian Begg and built in the Scots Baronial style as a homage to the Medieval Bishop's Castle which once occupied the same site, the museum was first opened in 1993.
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Is there a more Glaswegian set of footwear anywhere in existence? Created by Scottish pop artist Edmund Smith for the comedian Billy Connolly, they made their first appearance at the Aberdeen Music Hall in August 1975 making them 50 years old this year, and they soon became an iconic part of Billy's stage persona. They're now housed in the collections of the Glasgow Museums.
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Perhaps most interesting is the sword. As Kiribati has no metal ores, the islanders had to look elsewhere to make its blade and they chose shark teeth, creating a highly effective weapon which would both slash and tear at flesh in equal measure.
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Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum has many treasures in it, but this probably the one which most facinated me as a child. It's a suit of armour from Kiribati in Micronesia. The body covering is made from coconut while the helmet, which is more for show than protection, is made from the inflated and then dried skin of a porcupine fish.
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Pepa Montero#cuadrodeldía El ángel, 1881 (Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1833-98) #GlasgowMuseums Glasgow #art Vinculado a la 2ª fase del prerrafaelismo, muy atraído por la belleza y el romanticismo del Cristianismo medieval y la pureza decorativa de los primeros pintores italianos #FelizJueves
The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in central Glasgow. Designed by Ian Begg and built in the Scots Baronial style as a homage to the Medieval Bishop's Castle which once occupied the same site, the museum was first opened in 1993.
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The Saint Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in central Glasgow with the Jubilee Block of Glasgow Royal Infirmary in the background. Designed by Ian Begg and built in the Scots Baronial style as a homage to the Medieval Bishop's Castle which once occupied the same site, the museum was first opened in 1993.
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Examples of Kemp's work can now be found in museum collections around the world, including in Glasgow. This building is now part of Frasers.
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37 Buchanan Street in Glasgow, once home to the wonderfully named Kemp's Shawl Emporium. David Kemp started his business making and selling shawls in 1832 and grew it into a nationally renowned enterprise which soon expanded to become a more general clothing manufacturers producing high quality ladies clothes in the latest fashionable designs from London and Paris.
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