The Burrells' Legacy Exhibition
A Great Gift to Glasgow
When Sir William Burrell, and his wife, Constance Burrell, donated their extraordinary collection of art to the city of Glasgow in 1944, it was the greatest gift the city had ever been given
Exhibition Information
Exhibition Dates: 27th August 2022 – 16th April 2023
Opening Hours: Monday-Thursday and Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Friday and Sunday: 11am – 5pm
Location: Special Exhibitions and Events Space, Lower Ground Floor, The Burrell Collection, Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow G43 1AT
Free Entry - the exhibition is free to enter with no advanced booking required
Explore the legacy of Sir William Burrell and his wife, Constance Burrell in this new exhibition that celebrates their passions as art collectors and their motivations to establish an internationally renowned Burrell Collection museum.
Over 100 objects that they donated to Glasgow including ancient civilisations, medieval textiles, sculpture, stained glass, Chinese ceramics, and nineteenth-century French art will reveal how the Burrells collecting tastes and insight into their collection influenced the future design of the museum.
For the first time in a generation, the exhibition will reunite works the Burrells gifted to their hometown of Berwick with those gifted to Glasgow. Discover the design and creation of the Burrell Collection building during the 1970s with original architectural plans and archive materials showing how architects, the Glasgow Corporation and other key players helped to create a permanent home for the Burrells’ magnificent art collection.
This exhibition includes many rarely seen objects
Familiar favourites will be out on display – the mosaic cockerel, The Wandering Housewife, Shoki the Demon Queller… it’s like meeting old friends again
After the Collection of over 6,000 fine and decorative art objects was donated to the city of Glasgow in 1944, Sir William Burrell continued to add to it until his death in 1958 at the age of 96.
By this time the Collection amounted to more than 9,000 objects spanning 6,000 years of history, featuring some of the finest examples of medieval stained glass and tapestries in the world, Chinese ceramics from every Dynastic period and one of the largest collections of work by Degas in Europe.