A 55-year-old man has died after plunging from a two floors high balcony at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art.
Emergency services rushed to the scene in the citys Royal Exchange Square at around 12.30pm on Wednesday.
The man had been visiting the art gallery when he fell from height. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The gallery, which has four floors, closed early for the rest of the day following the incident and was reopened today.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: Around 12.30pm on Wednesday, September 11, we received a report a man had fallen from height inside an art gallery on Royal Exchange Square.
A 55-year-old man has died after plunging from a balcony at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art. The visitor was in the gallery when he fell from height
The museum, which has four floors open to the public, closed after the incident but reopened today at 10am
Emergency services attended, but the 55-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.
There are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances and a report will be sent to the Procurator Fiscal.
In a post on X on Wednesday, GoMA Glasgow said: The Gallery of Modern Art has closed early today after a member of the public fell from a balcony. Emergency services are in attendance.
The building will reopen as normal tomorrow, Thursday September 12 at 10am.
One visitor who told The Sun he saw the incident unfold said: The place was suddenly crawling with police.
A man was lying on the ground directly below the big circular balcony.
Somebody said he came over the side of it. It’s two floors high.
GoMA is housed in an early 19th century, neoclassical building which once belonged to Tobacco Lord William Cunninghame.
The Scottish Ambulance Service said: We received a call at 12.23 to attend an incident on Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow.
We dispatched one ambulance, one paramedic response unit, and one trauma team to the scene.
The museum was first opened in 1996 and attracts more than 500,000 visitors a year.
Last year it hosted a Banksy exhibition which broke the box-office record with around 180,000 people attending over the 10-week run.
It is also known for the traffic cone which famously sits on the head of the Duke of Wellington statue outside the venue.