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Staff & Contractors
Bringing a category A-listed Victorian museum into the 21st century is a huge project – a £27.9million project to be exact. So it is not surprising that many different people and companies have been involved in the restoration of Kelvingrove. You will find information on all the different teams and companies that have worked on the Kelvingrove New Century Project below.
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Text and displays
Curators, the Education & Access, Communications and Research and Major Projects teams were all involved in the development of the displays and text for the new Kelvingrove. This involved identifying key objects, messages and concepts for each story (groups of objects that had a story to tell around a particular theme), developing ideas, consulting with community groups, writing, editing and proofing text, and commenting on design. Consultation groups, including the Kelvingrove Junior Board, provided invaluable feedback on the displays – please visit the Consultation section of this website to find out more.
For more on the philosophy behind the new displays, please visit the Philosophy section of this website. For more information on all the stories, please visit the Kelvingrove New Century Project section.
| Contributors to the new displays | Stories responsible for |
| Pat Allan, Curator, Ethnography | Survival: People & their land; Charms and Healing; Every Picture Tells a Story |
| Helen Avenell, Curator, Scottish History | St Kilda: On the edge of the world; The Battle of Langside |
| Alison Brown, Curator, European Decorative Arts | Introduction to the Glasgow Style; Glasgow Tearooms; The Macdonald Sisters; Precious Things; Women Adored, Women Adorned; Craft, Art and Industry; |
| Alison K Brown, Research Manager, Human History | Patterns of Change |
| Rowan Brown, Curator, Transport &Technology | Myths and Realities; Scottish Landscapes; Swift, Safe, Sure – The George Bennie Railplane |
| Toby Capwell, Curator, Arms & Armour | Cold Steel; Animal Armoury; Dressed to Kill; Collectors’ Curios; Myths and Realities |
| Patricia Collins, Curator, Medieval and Renaissance Art | Italian Art: Introducing Italian Renaissance Art - Made in Venice, The Art of War, New Perspectives, Beautiful Things; Northern Renaissance Art; The Craft of Art; Renaissance Chapel. |
| Harry Dunlop, Museum Manager, St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art/Provand’s Lordship/Martyrs’ School | A Life of Service: James Keith Gorrie; La Faruq Madonna |
| Simon Eccles, Senior Curator, Ancient Civilizations | Ancient Sicilian Soap Opera; How to Survive Death the Ancient Egyptian Way; Gods of the Living and the Dead; Jobs for the Girls/Boys in Ancient Egypt |
| Noorah Al-Gailani, Curator, Islamic Civilizations | Every Picture Tells a Story |
| Alastair Gunning, Curator, Geology | Scotland’s Lost Wildlife; Age of Fish; Fossils Under Our Feet; Mineral Beauty; Understanding a Landscape |
| Deborah Haase, Museum Manager, People’s Palace | The Holocaust – Remembering for the Future; Glasgow in Mind |
| Vivien Hamilton, Research Manager, Art | French Art Changing Styles in French 19th-century Painting; Portraits; Still Life; Light on Water; Vuillard’s Figures in a Room; People Out of Doors; Viewpoints; |
| Ben Harman Curator, Contemporary Art | Photography & Art; Body Beautiful; |
| Fiona Hayes, Curator, Social History | Glasgow’s International Exhibitions |
| Chris Jamieson, Curator, Open Museum | Beauty and Ugliness |
| Alison Kelly, Curator, World Religions | Bronzes from Benin; Symbols that Divide |
| Emma Leighton, Curator, Chinese & Oriental Civilizations | Chinese Symbols |
| Tony Lewis, Curator, Scottish History | James Watt |
| Morag Macpherson, Museum Manager, Open Museum | Souvenirs of War |
| Maire Noonan, Curator, Ethnography (now Riverside Project) | Ceremonial Turtle Posts; Masks and Masquerades; I Belong to Glasgow; Glasgow’s International Exhibitions |
| Rebecca Quinton, Curator, Costumes and Textiles | Tartanalia; Strutting Your Stuff; |
| Alex Robertson, Curator, Social History | Spitfire; Glasgow and the Wild West; Violence Against Women |
| Jenny Rose, Curator, Archaeology (job share) | The First People in Scotland; Death and Ritual in Bronze Age Scotland |
| Jeanne Robinson, Curator, Entomology | Famous Scottish Wildlife |
| Mike Rutherford, Curator, Invertebrates | The Last Pearl Fishers in Scotland; Wildlife in Danger; The Baron of Buchlyvie; Nature’s Record Breakers; Sir Roger the Elephant; Animal Armoury |
| Kiran Singh, Curator, Education & Access | Animal Speak |
| Katinka Stentoft, Curator, Archaeology (job share) | Living on the Water; Vikings in Scotland |
| Hugh Stevenson, Curator, British Art | Picture Promenade; Sculpture Highlights; Investigating Art; The Story of Kelvingrove; The Scottish Enlightenment; Art Through a Lens; The Artistic Optician – John Quinton Pringle; Picture in Focus: Paton’s The Fairy Raid |
| John-Paul Sumner, Project Curator | Fossil Reptiles from Elgin; Life at the Time of the Dinosaurs; Tracks, Trails and Dinosaur Tales; Hunting; Creatures in Camouflage; Our Solar System; A Fish’s Tale; Life in Scottish Lochs |
| Richard Sutcliffe, Research Manager, Natural History | St Kilda: on the edge of the world; Birds from Your Window; Aliens |
| Jean Walsh, Senior Curator, Kelvingrove | The Glasgow Boys; The Scottish Colourists; Every Picture Tells a Story; Introduction and Tailpiece to Scottish Identity in Art; Scottish Landscapes; Myths and Realities; Looking at Art |
| Keith Watson, Curator, Botany | Wild about Glasgow |
| Rosemary Watt, Senior Curator, Industry & Design | Design is for Us; Does It Hold Water?; Enginuity; |
| Robert Wenley, Curator, European Art (1600–1800) | Dutch Art Trade & Prosperity: A seafaring nation; Landscapes and the Art Market; Still Life; Everyday Life?; Flemish Paintings; The Dutch and Religion; Investigating Rembrandt; The Five Senses; |
| Rachel Vincent, Project Curator | Flying is like ...; Photography and Art |
| Richard Williams, ICT Manager, Kelvingrove New Century Project | Content Development for Interactives |
| Editorial team | |
| Alison Dearie | Education and Access Curator |
| George Inglis | Electronic Editor |
| Sue Latimer | Senior Education and Access Curator |
| Susan Pacitti | Managing Editor |
| Kim Teo | Academic Editor |
| Research team | |
| Martin Bellamy | Major Projects and Research Manager |
| Alison K Brown | Research Manager, Human History |
| Vivien Hamilton | Research Manager, Art |
| Michael Nix | Research Manager, Technology |
| Richard Sutcliffe | Research Manager, Natural History |