The archive of Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) could be sold off, months after the arts organisation collapsed into liquidation with the loss of all 39 staff jobs.

CCA entered liquidation in January 2026, citing significant financial pressures, according to The Art Newspaper. The venue, located at 350 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, had been a fixture of Scotland's contemporary art scene — a publicly funded space that hosted exhibitions, performances and community events. All 39 staff were made redundant when the organisation was declared insolvent, the Museums Association reported.

Now the archive — the documented history of the centre's programming, exhibitions and operations — is being prepped for sale. MB Valuations, a company instructed by the CCA, is handling the process, the Glasgow Bell reported. For an institution, an archive is more than paperwork: it is the record of what was shown, who was involved and when, a chain of documentation that researchers, artists and historians rely on for years after the fact.

The building itself sits on different ground. Creative Scotland, the country's public arts funder, owns the property at 350 Sauchiehall Street and had leased it to the CCA. In January 2026, Creative Scotland published an official response to the centre's collapse, confirming its ownership of the building. By July, the funder had issued a call for expressions of interest from parties wanting to use the space as a cultural venue, with submissions due by 5pm.

The CCA had been a recipient of Creative Scotland's Regular Funding Network, receiving £1,920,000 annually during the 2018–21 funding cycle, according to Creative Scotland's funding records. Despite that level of public investment, the organisation could not sustain itself.

The potential archive sale has sparked concern among those who see it as a loss to Scotland's cultural record — though the specifics of what the archive contains and what price it might fetch have not been publicly detailed.

What happens next depends on two separate processes running in parallel. MB Valuations moves forward with the archive. Creative Scotland looks for a new tenant to keep the Sauchiehall Street building in cultural use. Whether either process preserves the legacy of what the CCA built — or whether it is dispersed to buyers and lost to public access — is the question now facing Scotland's arts community.