Work Placements

Placement Opportunities

Work placements are an important element of our programme, providing scope for students to develop skills and experience and to meet with professional practitioners in museums, galleries, archives and other settings. Over the years, our students have benefited from opportunities in diverse locations. Examples this year include The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow Life, The Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum and National Galleries Scotland.

2018 Placements

Detail showing transmitted light of, Untitled. 1940-42 by Eileen Gray, paper and card collage with ink and gouache on paper, National Galleries of Scotland, copyright NGS

A Multispectral Analysis of Eileen Gray, NGS

Detail from a Stoddard-Templeton design (courtesy of University of Glasgow Archive Services)

Stoddard-Templeton Design Archive, Glasgow University Archive Services

Colour photograph showing a selection of film canisters that house 16mm film-based works within the collection of National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Time-based Media and Implications of Ownership, NGS

Detail showing varnish and dirt in corners of a Pilkington Jackson military statuette (courtesy of the Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum)

Pilkington Jackson Military Statuettes, The Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum

Detail showing uneven varnish surface on arm area from a painted wooden soldier (courtesy of the Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum)

Painted Wooden Soldier Figure, The Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum

Handmade bushes with coiled metal ferrules from the Whistler artist materials collection, The Hunterian (courtesy of The Hunterian Collection)

Whistler Artist Materials, The Hunterian

SEM-EDX elemental mapping of a sample from The Nilgai by George Stubbs (1724-1806) from The Hunterian Collection

Waxy Wildlife Wonders, The Hunterian

Examination a painted textile, the blue Peacock by Talwin Morris, using a DinoLite, courtesy of the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre and Glasgow Museums Collection

Talwin Morris’s Peacocks Mismatched, Glasgow Museums

2017 Placements

Detail of thread from the embroidery in Regimental Colours (courtesy of the Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum)

Regimental Colour, The Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum

Detail of a polychrome limestone altarpiece, French, circa 1450-1500 from The Burrell Collection, Glasgow. (Courtesy of Carter Lyon)

Medieval Polychromy, The Burrell Collection

Colour image of a detail from a carved powder horn, circa. 1838, from The Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum, Glasgow under UV light (Courtesy of Georgia Tooley)

Scrimshaw Powder Horns, The Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum

Detail of a portrait miniature of a field officer, showing the face layer build up of paint over a carnation colour with blue around the lips, The Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum (Courtesy of Macon St Hilaire)

Portrait Miniature, The Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum

UV image of a medieval sculpture of Madonna and Child, 1480-1500, from the Burrell Collection (courtesy of Theodora-Maria Stasinopoulou-Petrova)

Provenance of a Medieval Sculpture, The Burrell Collection

Magnified image of a sample of the warp fibre from a social history banner in Glasgow Museums collection (courtesy of Maria Kontimpa)

Social History Banners, Glasgow Museums

Selected Past Placements

Detail of an example stained glass image from Glasgow Museum Workshop

Provand’s Lordship’s Stained Glass

Colour photograph of a student photographing prints for a study into photographic processes (courtesy of Carrie Henrichs)

Early Photographic Processes

Detail of embroidered book, The Whole Book of Psalms (1636), showing a Tree of Life on silk, Glasgow University Special Collections

Embroidered Book Bindings

What is Technical Art History?

List of placements.

List of placements.