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Show People and Museum folk – a dialogue

June 14, 2013 by Heather

Situated at the farthest point of a small industrial estate in the South Side of Glasgow are two large conjoined buildings with corridor upon corridor of enigmatic doors leading to rooms dubbed ‘pods’. Each pod houses myriad objects from taxidermy to towering suits of armour; fine art; sculptures; photographs; fossils; trams; bicycles; crockery; musical instruments and more besides. There are 17 of these purpose-built, environmentally controlled pods that house approximately 1.4 million objects. This is where our Fair Glasgow working […]

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