Glasgow Street Art & Murals Walking Tour with a Local Guide
Description
Immerse yourself in a different side to Glasgow on our iconic street art tour, a popular tour for those looking to go off the beaten track. Forget grand buildings and traditional sightseeing for an hour and a half. This is Glasgow through its walls, a colourful, creative and constantly changing side of the city that’s easy to miss if you don’t know where to look. Follow a local, expert guide through hidden lanes and unexpected corners of the city centre, discovering huge murals, underground graffiti and the stories behind the artists who have transformed Glasgow’s streets. From world-renowned artists like Smug to local legends like Rogue One, you’ll discover how Glasgow has become one of Europe’s most exciting urban art destinations, and why our street art is constantly changing.
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Begin your street art tour with some of Glasgow’s earliest city centre murals. Your guide will introduce the city’s street art history, how murals and graffiti have changed Glasgow’s streetscape, and what to look out for as you explore the city’s creative side.
Glasgow’s street art is constantly evolving, with new pieces popping up and familiar works changing over time. Your guide will bring the route to life with current discoveries, local context and fresh details, making each tour feel unique.
Explore how street art reflects Glasgow’s personality, from its humour and music culture to its history, politics and sense of community. The tour connects the artworks to the city around them, showing how public art can tell local stories in powerful and unexpected ways.
Learn more about the people behind the work and the different styles used across Glasgow’s street art scene. Your guide will explain the difference between murals, graffiti, paste-ups and other forms of public art, helping you see the city’s walls in a new way.
Move beyond the main streets to uncover colourful pieces tucked away in unexpected parts of the city. This part of the tour highlights how street art can change the feel of a place, bringing character, humour and surprise to overlooked urban spaces.
Discover how murals can celebrate local icons, mark important moments and bring people together. This section looks at the role street art plays in shaping how Glasgow remembers, represents and shares its stories.
End the tour with a final selection of standout pieces and a deeper appreciation of Glasgow’s creative streets. Your guide will also be happy to share tips for other murals, neighbourhoods, galleries, cafés and cultural spots to explore after the tour.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please note that the tour covers around 1.5 miles at a moderate pace over the course of 1.5 hours.
Reviews(731)
very cool tour and lots to see!!!!!!!!!
Cheerful guide knew his stuff. He made sure I was able to keep with the group. Though we were shown quite a lot and took our photos
Gabriel was an amazing guide during the murals / street art tour. He showed us all the murals, told their name or theme, the artist, when they were made and some interesting or funny facts about them. All by heart, without reading from his phone or a paper. Well done! Gabriel is very caring for the group of people he takes with him and makes sure everyone catches up and will be safe by warning traffic might come from places you don’t expect it to come, which was helpful. He is happy to answer any questions the group has. Would definitely recommend this tour and hope Gabriel or one of the other tour guides will show you around this amazing way to get to know Glasgow a bit better.
For someone who has seen a lot of graffiti in Toronto, London, NYC, Paris, Dublin, etc etc, this tour was pretty underwhelming. I did see some self-guided walking tours posted that showed some murals we saw in better days and some more interesting and well-done pieces but maybe they were painted over or too far? Perhaps this tour should be paused or tweaked when there isn't a critical mass of art to show off? I enjoyed seeing streets and hoods I may not otherwise have visited, but the pieces did not make the Glasgow scene seem very experienced or professional.The guide tried her best to make the mediocre pieces interesting and talk about the context and history. I would save your money in summer/fall 2026!
Original walk through the city of Glasgow to discover magnificent murals with David, a very nice and attentive guide. After this tour, we continued to look for other murals in the city like a scavenger hunt.
David was very well very versed in Glaswegian street art. He was entertaining, as well as informative. He knew the background stories to each piece. The walk was for all fitness levels, and he made sure we stuck together and stayed safe. I appreciated his knowledge and his friendly, outgoing personality.
Excellent guided tour - David was a fantastic guide, very knowledgeable and able to answer all questions thrown at him! 9 murals over an hour and a half - Highly recommend
Incredible street art tour in Glasgow with Grace! She is simply exceptional: passionate, friendly, with a great sense of humor, which makes the walk very lively and pleasant from start to finish. The content was rich and interesting, with plenty of well-chosen anecdotes and information about the works and the artists. The format was perfectly calibrated in terms of duration, even with a 4-year-old child who followed along without any issues and had a lot of fun. A very beautiful discovery of Glasgow from an original angle, we highly recommend this tour and Grace as a guide!
This was an informative tour and David told us lots about the street art and the artists, asking us to think about what we would define as street art as we went along. Given it was advertised as focusing on Smug I was surprised that the St. Mungo and St. Enoch murals were not included on the tour. It would also have been helpful to know in advance where the tour ended as I had assumed it would be circular given this wasn’t mentioned in the information given.
interresting, but I missed to be guided to some of the announced artpieces. But the guide knew a lot details about the artits.
