Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery

Cydebank Museum and Art Gallery is situated beside the now demolished John Brown shipyard where many of the famous liners of the Clyde were built. The Museum and Art Gallery showcases an exciting temporary exhibition programme featuring fine art and touring exhibitions and has small permanent displays relating to the shipbuilding industry and the Singer Sewing Machine Collection.

The museum collections include local, social and industrial history artefacts relating to life in Clydebank both past and present and to shipbuilding and engineering in a town which became world famous for building ships.

Sewing Machines

This collection consists of around 800 sewing machines dating from the 1850s to the 1980s. These include Singer machines as well as the company's technological and copyright archive, comprising of many more early machines. The collection houses many rare and collectible models. There is also a substantial collection of instruction books and technical photographs.

Industrial History

This collection covers local industries form ship building to glass making. There are several rare, glass walking sticks from local glass making factories. The shipbuilding industry is represented by the John Brown / Beardmore collection of ship building tools, photographs, ship models and ephemera. The Tullis factory is represented by laundry equipment and there is a small amount of other ephemera that represents other local industries and places of work.

Social History

This collection consists of everyday items from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. These include a variety of objects from clothing through to identity cards, cameras and shampoo, as well as items relating to the Clydebank Blitz.

Fine Art / Silver

This collection consists of around 400 pieces of fine art and several pieces of silver, including trophies and launch memorabilia.

Geology / Archaeology

This collection consists of local geological samples as well as some local archaeology and biological samples. The archaeology and biological samples are placed on long term loan at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.