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ARTS, CULTURE & TOURISM
People’s Palace & Winter Gardens
Glasgow Green, Glasgow, G40 1AT
0141 276 0788
PEOPLE’SPALACE
&WINTERGARDENS
The People’s Palace & Winter
Gardens are among Glasgow’s
most iconic venues. Set in
Glasgow Green, the popular
social history museum is home
to an array of beguiling historical
artefacts, prints, paintings
and photographs, offering a
stunning insight into the metier
and mores of Glaswegians
through the centuries. These
include
Billy
Connolly’s
famous Banana Boots, a
meticulous reconstruction of
the traditional Glasgow ‘single
end’ (a single-roomed house
within a tenement memorably
memorialised in the novel No
Mean City), ’Dancing at the
Barrowlands’, an exhaustive
display paying homage to
Glasgow’s
most
beloved
music hall, and The Steamie,
a display which gives an insight
into the equipment used to
get clothes clean prior to the
advent of electrical gadgets.
Just to bring things up to the
21st century, there’s also
interactive computer displays
and films throughout the year.
The adjacent Winter Garden,
meanwhile, is home to exotic
palms and verdant plants, not
to mention a spectacular iron-
framed Victorian glasshouse
which recently underwent a
£140,000 renovation. If you’ve
a day in Glasgow to kill, make
sure you add the People’s
Palace to your itinerary.
