I decided to take the kids on something of a cultural experience last weekend. The excuse for the visit was that Raymond wanted to see the huge Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street. In fact, he didn’t want to see all 5 floors of it, or even just one floor, but more specifically the one corner that sells all the Manga graphic novels. This is fair enough but I insisted that we went for a visit to St Mungo’s Museum of Religious Life and Art first. At the mention of the word “religion” I may as well have dropped Kryptonite in his cornflakes.
Despite his atheistic tendencies I was determined to show him that, whatever one’s beliefs, religions do have the tendency to inspire some of the most exquisite works of art – including possibly my favourite picture, Dali’s Christ of Saint John of the Cross which is in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove museum. There is nothing quite as famous as that in St Mungo’s but the art works that are there are of just as high standard and cover most of the main religions (there is even a weeping angel model from Doctor Who hidden away to placate the little heathen).
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| Jesus and Mary |
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| Shiva Nataraj |
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| A Skellington! |
As we were right next to Glasgow Cathedral I took the children in there as well and, oddly enough, Raymond seemed more impressed than this than he did with the artworks. Maybe he is more into architecture?
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| Glasgow Cathederal |
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| Inside Glasgow Cathederal |
We also popped into the Provand’s Lordship, the oldest surviving house in Glasgow, which seemed to go down quite well; at least until we got to the bookshop so he could spend the best part of an hour browsing through Manga. Maybe I should take him to see Tokyo instead?
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