St. Mungo Museum Of Religious Life & Art
Free museum of world faiths in a castle-style building, with sacred art and a Zen garden.
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This guide to the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in Glasgow starts with a building whose age does not match its looks, on ground where the city's medieval bishops once lived. It follows a cathedral society's plans for the site in the nineteen eighties and the museum that opened here in nineteen ninety-three with an unusual mission. Best heard on the pavement outside, facing the turret, before you step in.
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