What's on

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Current and future exhibitions

William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum

27 September 2018 – 6 January 2019
Hunterian Art Gallery (Admission free)  

Celebrating the tercentenary of William Hunter’s birth, this exhibition explores the contexts in which The Hunterian founder formed his collections and the unique position they occupy in the development of modern museums. For the first time in 150 years, visitors will be able to see the scale and quality of Hunter’s collections all in one place, reuniting paintings, ethnographic objects, anatomical and natural history preparations and items from Hunter’s library and coin collections.

A Golden Era of Coinage: The Byzantine Empire

7 December 2018 – 21 May 2019
Hunterian Museum (Admission free)  

For 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire dominated the eastern Mediterranean. Centred on the capital of Constantinople, it was a beacon of Roman power, Greek influence and Christian worship, which spanned the ancient and medieval worlds. A succession of emperors and empresses directed civil and military affairs within ever-shifting borders. Coins bearing their images were struck at mints across the Empire, from North Africa to Italy and the Holy Land, reflecting dramatic periods of history and a golden era of coinage from an extraordinary civilisation.

The German Revolution: The Art of Expressionism

1 March – 25 August 2019
Hunterian Art Gallery (Admission free)  

This major new exhibition explores artists’ responses to the social and political forces driving the German Revolution of 1918–1919. The Hunterian has a particularly fine collection of Expressionist prints, including important works by Schiele, Klinger, Kokoschka, Munch, Dix, Schmidt-Rottluff, Nolde, Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz. The German Revolution links the strong German tradition of graphic art with the social, political, sexual and moral developments taking place at the time.

T. Rex in Town

15 March – 30 June 2019
Kelvin Hall (Admission charge)  

Step back in time to the Cretaceous period and meet Trix, Europe’s first Tyrannosaurus rex. The 66-million-year-old fossil of the carnivorous dinosaur is the centrepiece of this major exhibition and one of the three most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons in the world. Find out more about Trix’s turbulent life from the information revealed by her bones, based on recent findings by an international research team of palaeontologists and geologists.

Hand Drawn: Action Packed

16 March – 3 June 2019
Hunterian Art Gallery (Admission free)  

Curated by Hayward Gallery Touring, this exhibition brings together the work of ten international artists including Marcel van Eeden, Rinus Van de Velde and Otobong Nkanga. Each artist’s practice illustrates how drawings can tell complex stories with the simplest of means. The artists portray an array of subject matter, such as human relationships, geography, politics and mythology, in materials that range from traditional pencil and charcoal to modern methods of animation.

‌National & international loans

Not based in Glasgow? You can enjoy The Hunterian’s collections throughout the world with our national and international loans programme. 

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

I Want to be a Machine: Warhol and Paolozzi (17 November 2018 – 2 June 2019) 
On loan – Metalization of a Dream by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Whistler and Nature (8 January – 11 March 2019) 
On loan – 81 works by James McNeill Whistler including Off the Dutch Coast.

Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth

A Good Night: Nocturnes for Night Owls (12 January – 30 March 2019) 
On loan – three works including A Little Shop in Chelsea by Mortimer Menpes.

Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland

British painting during the Victorian era (1 February – 2 June 2019) 
On loan – four works including Fireworks, Cremorne Gardens by Walter Greaves.