- Wikidata identifier:
- Q748106
- Also known as:
- GSA, Glasgow Government School of Design, Glasgow School of Art , GSA, The Glasgow School of Art
- Instance of:
- art academy; university; university museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum; Recognised collection
- Accreditation number:
- 1948
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q748106/
Collection-level records:
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Collection history (Collection development policy)
The Glasgow School of Art was founded in 1845. Many of the items in the collections were acquired as teaching tools during the School’s lifetime, including plaster casts, ceramics and metalwork. In addition, the collections house a wide range of artworks, architectural drawings, design work and archive material relating to former students and staff, including Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Archive holdings include GSA’s institutional records, and a number of collections deposited by former staff, students and related organisations. This material has been acquired throughout the School’s history and continues to be collected in order to capture the development of courses, creative outputs and the School’s activities.
Source: Collection development policy
Date: 2022
Licence: CC BY-NC
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Collection overview (Collection development policy)
There are almost 5000 individual items in the collections plus circa 100 deposited archive collections, and 25,000 items in the GSA institutional archive. The majority of collections are in physical form (furniture, works on paper, sculpture, textiles, plaster casts, ceramics, metalwork) with a small amount of born digital archives and material. The 280 works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh form a Museums Galleries Scotland “Recognised Collection” of national significance.
Source: Collection development policy
Date: 2022
Licence: CC BY-NC