A person has died after falling from a balcony at Glasgow’s Gallery of Trendy Artwork.
Emergency companies went to the scene within the metropolis’s Royal Alternate Sq. at round 12.30pm on Wednesday.
Police mentioned the 55-year-old man was pronounced useless on the scene.
The gallery, generally known as GoMA, closed early for the remainder of the day following the incident and is predicted to reopen right now.
A Police Scotland spokesperson mentioned: ‘Round 12.30pm on Wednesday, September 11, we acquired a report a person had fallen from peak inside an artwork gallery on Royal Alternate Sq..
Glasgow’s Gallery of Trendy Artwork, the place the 55-year-old man died after falling from a balcony
‘Emergency companies attended, however the 55-year-old man was pronounced useless on the scene.
‘There aren’t believed to be any suspicious circumstances and a report might be despatched to the Procurator Fiscal.’
In a publish on X on Wednesday, the gallery mentioned: ‘The Gallery of Trendy Artwork has closed early right now after a member of the general public fell from a balcony. Emergency companies are in attendance.
‘The constructing will reopen as regular Thursday September 12 at 10am.’
The Scottish Ambulance Service mentioned: ‘We acquired a name at 12.23 to attend an incident on Royal Alternate Sq., Glasgow.
‘We dispatched one ambulance, one paramedic response unit, and one trauma crew to the scene.’
GoMA is housed in an early nineteenth century, neoclassical constructing which as soon as belonged to ‘Tobacco Lord’ William Cunninghame.
The museum was first opened in 1996 and attracts greater than 500,000 guests a yr.
Final yr it hosted a Banksy exhibition which broke the box-office document with round 180,000 individuals attending over the 10-week run.
It’s also identified for the site visitors cone which famously sits on the pinnacle of the Duke of Wellington statue outdoors the venue.
