We are currently revising our collecting policy, the policy that details what we should and should not be collecting. And we would like to know what you think we should collect in the future.

Should we concentrate on buying paintings for the art collection? Do we need any more locomotives? Should we be trying to further represent Glasgow's social diversity?

We will also be considering whether we should keep all the collections we currently have. Many parts of the collection have been acquired and developed for different reasons over the 150-year history of the Museums Service, and perhaps some of these no longer reflect Glasgow Museums' current needs.

For example, do we still have a use for Victorian replica coins from the ancient world? Or a threshing machine that doesn't relate to any other part of the collection? Would parts of our collection be more appropriate in other specialist museums?

Current collecting policy

You can download the part of our current collecting policy that gives a brief outline of what we have in our collections and what we aim to collect, by following the link on the right hand side of the page under Related Downloads. It will help to give you an idea of what we have been collecting up to now, and it may help give you some ideas of what you think we should collect in the future. -- www.glasgowmuseums.com