Culture
Glasgow’s impressive range of cultural choice suits all tastes. What are you into?
Visual Art
- The Arches: club, theatre, live music and visual art
- Centre for Contemporary Arts: gallery, performance space, cafe and cinema
- Gallery of Modern Art: second most visited contemporary art gallery outside London
- House for an Art Lover: visual arts centre designed by Glasgow's greatest architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Museums
* Entry to all is free, but there may be a charge for specific exhibitions
- Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery: home to over a million items from meteorites to mummies, handily located on campus
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum: Scotland's most visited attraction in 2009, with more than 8000 objects including Dali, Van Gogh, Monet and Botticelli
- The Burrell Collection: over 9,000 works of art including works by Degas, Epstein and Rodin
Film
- The Grosvenor: comfy chairs in an intimate venue in the West End
- Cineworld: choose from the latest films across 18 screens
- Glasgow Film Theatre: international, arthouse, documentary and a major centre for Glasgow’s annual film festival
- Gilmorehill G12: houses the University's own movie theatre
Theatre
- Tron Theatre: new works from home and abroad, plus music, comedy and workshops
- The King's Theatre: a host to the Royal National Theatre, touring musicals, dance and pantomime
- Tramway: host venue to the National Review of Live Art, with contemporary visual and performing art, gallery space, restaurant and gardens
- Citizens Theatre: features a powerful range of self-produced shows and touring work
Comedy
- The Stand: live comedy club opened seven nights a week
- Jongleurs: comedy on the site of legendary entertainment venue, the Glasgow Apollo
Montage (L-R): Visitors in kilts, Takenori Togawa; performing clown, Athanasios Pavlopoulos; work from House for an Art Lover, Gail McLeary; Gallery of Modern Art, Sara McGregor; night lights, Luo Fan; Kelvingrove heads, Luo Fan; the Grosvenor, Imran Aziz; Pacific Quay, Glasgow.