Harbour and Horizon brings together artworks, historical photographs and artefacts from the last two centuries held in the Scottish Maritime Museum’s nationally recognised collection to explore the stark contrast between life in harbour and out on the open sea.

Exhibition artworks depict the safe haven at home, from the industrial energy of the River Clyde to the beauty of fishing harbours, often portrayed as idyllic communities.

The exhibition then reveals the dangers at sea beyond the harbour walls most strikingly through a series of photographs taken in 1909 by amateur photographer and sailor William Sinclair.

His photographs document the relentless hardships of early twentieth-century seafaring - from being becalmed in the Doldrums to battling in the Roaring Forties as well as the perilous passage around Cape Horn - one of the world’s most dangerous sea routes.