The Hunterian

The Mackintosh House, one of Glasgow's most popular tourist attractions, will close for approximately 8 weeks from Monday 10 August.

A major programme of repair work is currently underway at the Hunterian Art Gallery to address problems of water ingress and part of this work involves The Mackintosh House.

The House will be closed to the public from Monday 10 August to Wednesday 30 September inclusive. 

The work schedule includes structural repairs, cleaning of soft furnishings and carpets, and repainting.

The refurbished House will open to the public from 1 October as part of the Mackintosh Festival 2015.

The Hunterian Art Gallery and Hunterian Museum will remain open as usual.

The Mackintosh House is a meticulous reassemblage of the principal interiors from the Glasgow home of artist, architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.

The interiors are decorated in his distinctive style, as closely as possible to the original, and are furnished with the Mackintoshes' own furniture - all to Mackintosh's design.

The selection of bric à brac, fitted carpets, curtains and other soft furnishings are based on contemporary descriptions of the house and photographs of Mackintosh interiors of the period.

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First published: 31 July 2015