Government ministers will be asked to back a £60 million plan to transform Kelvin Hall into one of the UK's biggest museums.
Glasgow Life has applied for permission to work on the Category
B-listed building, which closed last month.
The project will result in the building becoming home to 1.5m
treasures from the city's collections, from Glasgow University's
Hunterian Museum and the Scottish Screen Archive.
Members of the city council's planning committee are expected to
agree to ask the Scottish Government to approve listed building
consent to allow work to start.
If it gets the go-ahead, the first phase of the work will
involve a comprehensive redevelopment and refurbishment.
Two of the later brick additions on the west elevation will be
removed and a new extension will be created at the Burnhouse Road
side of the building.
A feature window extension will be formed at the entrance that
previously gave access to the Transport Museum.
Substantial work will also be carried out to the inside of the
building, giving it a new lease of life.
The building, which stands opposite Kelvingrove Art Gallery,
dates from 1927 and replaced an earlier timber and brick structure
built for the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901.
Source:
Evening Times - £60m plan to transform Kelvin Hall