An aerial view of a large green lawn with scattered trees, and Glencairn Museum on the left, Cairnwood Estate on the right.
Glencairn Museum on a summer day, seen from the front lawn with blue sky behind.
A corner of Glencairn's Great Hall, with furniture, stone and wood statues, and a small staircase to a hallway.
A glass mosaic archway in the Great Hall depicts images representing the four schools that make up The Academy of the New Church: a college, theological school, and Boys and Girls Secondary Schools.
Six stone corbels carved with sheep and floral designs support a balcony, above a colored glass mosaic. Colorful stained-glass windows are on the right, reflecting off the balcony's glass railing.
Close-up of corbel carved as a ram in Glencairn's Great Hall.
A 20th century capital in Glencairn's Great Hall, depicting the Woman Clothed with the Sun described in the Book of Revelation. She is flanked by a young girl and boy.
Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn's hand-carved teak bedframe. This phrase is carved along with Celtic-like designs: "Give us one heart, one mind, one way."
Glencairn's Chapel ceiling decorated with colored glass mosiac, depicts a sun and the four living creatures (clockwise from top: a man, a calf, an eagle, a lion) from the Book of Revelation chapter 4.
The basin and edge of an ancient Egyptian libation bowl on display in Glencairn Museum.
Close-up of Lady Ruiu, depicted on the lip of Glencairn Museum's ancient Egyptian libation bowl.
An anthropoid wooden coffin lid, painted to show the deceased as a wrapped mummy with exposed head, wearing a wig and a false beard. Decorations also include multicolor floral and geometric elements.
A stone carving of an unnamed king from the Egyptian New Kingdom is in profile on the right. Behind and to the left is a white stone stele. Some hierogylphs are visible on the stele.
Left three-quarter angle of a large bronze sculpture of a sitting man, with two smaller stone sculptures in the background beyond the bronze sculpture.
A view of the displays in Glencairn's Greek Gallery, with objects behind glass on light blue painted shelves.
A 5th century Roman stone statue of a female, missing its head, arms, and legs, and wearing a flowing dress, is on the right. More stone carvings are in the background on the left.
A small stone bust depicting an Egyptian version of Isis. The female figure wears a headdress with a sun on it.
Anatolian marble sculpture of a head of an ancient Roman man with a beard. The nose is damaged on the left side.
The American Indian Gallery in Glencairn Museum. Displays include ceremonial garments, carvings, pottery, and more.
A colorful wooden mask with large eyes and a grimacing mouth. A bird head on a long neck comes up from the top of the mask between the eyes.
A male figure in armor and green cloak holds a grimacing dragon-like figure down with his foot on the dragon's knee, holds a chain tied around the dragon's neck, and raises a sword in his right hand.
12th Century window depicting the Flight into Egypt. Stained-glass panel with a vibrant red background. Mary, dressed in blue, rides a donkey and holds baby Jesus. Joseph leads the donkey with a rope.
This tapestry attributed to Hans Mattens after the artist known as Raphael, shows Peter kneeling with keys in his hand while Christ stands before him. Four more apostles watch from the left.
Illuminated manuscript page with Mary sitting and holding the baby Jesus on her lap. She sits in front of a cloud of gold, and two angels fly in the upper corners.
A damaged stone capital with a man with a halo sitting on the left, with a person on his lap. On the right a devil holds a man while a second devil eats him.
A stone relief shows a genie kneeling with a stylized palm tree, wearing a sheepskin robe and showing one muscled leg. His hands touch two of the tree’s flowers in a symbolic gesture of fertilization.
This Islamic prayer rug shows a red mihrab on a blue field. Geometric designs and birds decorate the whole rug.
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