Elspeth King, who has died aged 76, changed the course of Scottish museum practice by insisting that the everyday lives of working people deserved the same care and attention as fine art or aristocratic relics.
As curator of the People’s Palace museum in Glasgow from 1974 to 1990, she reshaped a fading municipal institution into a living record of the city’s social history, showing that museums could speak in the voices of the communities they served.
