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Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow : GoMA
Historic Glasgow Building – Royal Exchange, Queen Street
post updated 21 April 2024
Address: 111 Queen St in the Royal Exchange Building – from 1829
Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AH
Phone: 0141 287 3050
6 Nov 2013
Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art
Facelift for Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art
The Gallery of Modern Art, in Royal Exchange Square, is suffering from damaged stone work and is in need of repairs to the clock tower and ornamental weather vane.
Glasgow Life has applied to Glasgow City Council for permission to carry out the work, which they say will cost around £247,000.
The planning application, which has now been lodged with the local authority, states that the work will be carried out on the museum’s iconic tower which like many across the world (eg Dugald Stewart Monument on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill) on the The Choragic Monument of Lysicrates near the Acropolis of Athens, also known as the Tower of the Winds. Certainly the tower has seen better days, this is well overdue.
photos © Adrian Welch
The repairs are detailed as “stone cleaning and restoration, conservation to weather vane and clock faces, de-scaling masonry surface and indenting repairs to badly eroded masonry”. The tower’s paint finish will also be removed and sandstone exposed.
photo © Adrian Welch
Location: GoMA is just southwest of George Square, one block east from Buchanan Street, on the western edge of the Merchant City.
Contact the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 0141 229 1996
Glasgow Royal Exchange Building
Formerly a mansion house the original building has been added to with the portico, tower, pilasters and roof extension, becoming an exchange and then various other uses such as library with telephone exchange on the top two floors, now of course it is Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art.
Aerial image of GoMA by webbaviation, Oct 2009:
Opening Times: please check with the Gallery of Modern Art, current at time of posting: Mon – Sat 10am – 5pm; Sun 11am – 5pm
GoMA: photos © Adrian Welch
Nearest Metro: near St Enoch
View southeast from Goma, into Merchant City:
photograph © Adrian Welch
The Royal Exchange building is housed in what was a mansion house built by Tobacco Lord William Cunninghame.
GoMA context
image © Adrian Welch
Royal Exchange Square – GoMA
GoMA opened in 1996, costing £6m, with a cafe on the roof. Glasgow City Council gifted £3m of the cost.
Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art Building – context : George Square
photo © Adrian Welch
Glasgow Building Designs
Contemporary Glasgow Property Designs – recent Strathclyde architectural selection below:
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Glasgow Transport Museum
photograph : Alan McAteer
Buildings / photos for the GoMa Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art Building page welcome
Website: www.glasgowmuseums.com