Glasgow Museums Community Project

I'm delighted to be part of this exciting project from Glasgow Museums. The Community Display section at Kelvin Hall is an area where curators and community groups work together to create small exhibitions of items from the collections held at Kelvin Hall.

The Kelvin Hall Museum holds hundreds of items in Glasgow Museums' collection. As a group we have been using this incredible collection to create a community display which will be made visible to the public from January 2026.

The Learning and Access team at Kelvin Hall work with two community groups per year to create a 'Your Stories' display in their community display area in the Kelvin Hall avenue. The group selects a theme and objects from the collection that they relate to and can tell their own stories of those objects to create a new display.

The Learning and Access Team work with the group to help select their objects, choose their theme, group their objects and create interpretation for a graphic panel and object labels to tell their stories. The space is viewed by everyone visiting Kelvin Hall and is on display for 6 months.

RNIB (Royal National Institute for Blind People) are thrilled to have this opportunity for blind and partially people to work on Kelvin Hall's next 'Your Stories' display. Having the voices of our community members in a display - to share interpretations of Glasgow Museums' collections and to be able to share this with everyone who visits Kelvin Hall.

The Community Display includes a large glass case, a digital screen and a graphic panel. These are designed and printed by the museum. The display will open to the public early 2026.

"A common assumption about being blind is that we live in complete darkness and are unable to see anything. In reality, blindness and visual impairment exist on a spectrum. Approximately 90% of legally blind people have some form of light perception or residual vision. This exhibit is not about us overcoming or conquering, but about living with sight loss and connecting with others through lived shared experiences."

Robert H. King