Mitchell Library

Grand Edwardian Baroque pile endowed by the Mitchell tobacco fortune and opened in 1911. It houses a huge municipal public reference library, with over a million volumes and many more primary source archives for tracing family and civic history. It was gutted by fire in 1962 but the facade survived, and in 1980 a less-than-elegant extension was added with an events venue.

• free
• history
• family

Address

North St G3 7DN

Getting there

train: Charing Cross

Hours

Mon-Thu 9AM-8PM, Fri Sat 9AM-5PM

Price

Free

Website

glasgowlife.org.uk (opens in a new tab)