Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum – formerly The Smith Institute – has played a very special part in the history of Stirling since its foundation in 1874. Established by the bequest of artist Thomas Stuart Smith (1815–1869) on land supplied by the Burgh of Stirling, it is an historic public-private partnership which has continued to the present day. It was founded as a gallery of mainly contemporary art, with museum and library reading room ‘for the benefit of the inhabitants of Stirling, Dunblane and Kinbuck’.
Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows
The adjacent Richard H. Driehaus Gallery of Stained Glass Windows opened in 2001 and remains open. It is devoted to ecclesiastical and secular windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany and interrelated businesses between 1890 and 1930. The windows are from the extensive Tiffany collection of Chicago businessman Richard H. Driehaus. There are 11 Tiffany windows on display in the Driehaus Gallery, along with a Tiffany Studios fire screen.