When Glasgow’s Burrell Collection Museum was completed in 1983, one of the competition jury members described the building, in faint praise, as “a perfect teaching collection.” In its first year of opening, the museum drew a million visitors from across Glasgow and beyond, (although this annual figure had dropped to 150,000 by 2015). While the collection of 9,000 artifacts–a gallimaufry of architectural fragments, tapestries, medieval Christian statuary, Chinese ceramics, and a vast range of other items assembled by Sir William Burrell—was compelling, the quixotic building that housed them had a great deal to do with the museum’s appeal. A blend of late Modernist, Postmodernist, and high-tech vocabularies fitted to the unlikely typology of the Victorian glass conservatory (popular in Glasgow). The building (with a Grade A Listing) is considered one of Scotland’s greatest 20th century works of architecture. Following its recent refurbishment by the London-and Edinburgh-based practice of John McAslan + Partners, one can see—once again—why.