
Kelvin Hall
Discover what's on at this Glasgow landmark
The Numbers
The Challenge
The current redevelopment of the venue has seen Glasgow City Council partner with Glasgow Life (Glasgow Museums/Glasgow Sport), the University of Glasgow and the National Library of Scotland. The aim of the project was to create an exciting centre of cultural excellence providing collections' storage, teaching and research, alongside a state-of-the-art Glasgow Club health and fitness centre under one roof.
With the new, extensive offerings provided after Kelvin Hall's transformation and the 9 target audiences they had identified, Glasgow Life required a website that would inform prospective visitors about the variety of services on offer, the bustling events calendar, and booking options.
The Objectives
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One Stop Shop
The website needed to provide prospective visitors with all the answers to their questions before they arrive at Kelvin Hall. This should include information on the fitness facilities and the programme of exhibitions. It should also host booking systems for guided tours and exhibitions taking place. -
Promoting the Collections Portal
Kelvin Hall would soon be home to 1.5 million objects from the Hunterian and Glasgow Museums' collections. With such a dynamic variety of collections housed in the one building, the Collections Portal would provide online access to key information about current displays for those interested in Kelvin Hall's new cultural offerings. -
Connecting Databases
We needed to provide a user-friendly solution that integrated the website with Glasgow Life's events databases. This would require displaying upcoming events with a search filter function and ticket booking functionality.





User Experience and Design
Development
As well as communicating with the external Glasgow Life site, the team were able to set up a communication stream between Umbraco and SharePoint to display fitness classes being held in Kelvin Hall. Umbraco was then set up, by fitness class names, to identify imagery and other extra information not provided by SharePoint.
To allow for future development and expansion of the website as more information needs to be displayed, we knew our technical team’s knowledge of the content management system Umbraco 7 would be best suited to building this website. It provides a sturdy template which is both user friendly and could be moulded to meet the needs of the Kelvin Hall website and will allow for the flexibility needed in future expansion.
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