Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is Glasgow 's largest museum and art gallery and has one of the largest urban art collections in Europe . The museum is the second most popular visitor attraction in Scotland and the most visited museum in the UK outside of London . It is on Argyle Street opposite the architecturally similar Kelvin Hall to the west of the city, on the banks of the Kelvin River . It borders Kelvingrove Park and is in the immediate vicinity of the main Glasgow University campus on Gilmorehill .
The construction of Kelvingrove was funded in part by the proceeds of the 1888 International Exhibition held in Kelvingrove Park. The Kelvingrove Art Gallery opened in 1902. It was designed by Sir John W. Simpson and EJ Milner Allen . The building is built in the Spanish Baroque style and follows the Glasgow tradition of using red sandstone. A popular rumor has it that the building was built upside down and that the architect committed suicide by jumping (or hanging himself) from one of the towers after it was completed. This is incorrect, however, and likely because the main entrance to the museum is in Kelvingrove Park, but most visitors enter the building from Argyle Street.
The museum's exhibits came mainly from the McLellan Gallery and the old Kelvingrove House Museum in Kelvingrove Park. They include one of the most outstanding weapons and armaments collections in the world, an enormous natural history collection, and an art collection. The latter features many major European works of art, including works by the Old Masters, French Impressionists, and Scottish painters. The museum housed the painting The Christ of St. John of the Cross by Salvador Dalí , which was exhibited at the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art between 1993 and July 2006 .
On July 11, 2006, Kelvingrove reopened after a three-year renovation period. The renovation cost around £ 35 million and included the construction of a new restaurant and a large expansion of the exhibition space to accommodate the 8,000 items on display.
Exhibitions
- An exhibition with over 100 pictures by the British painter Jack Vettriano set a visitor record for an art exhibition at the museum with over 123,000 visitors from September 2013 to February 2014.
- 2018: Charles Rennie Mackintosh Making the Glasgow Style .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Jack Vettriano hangs up paintbrush due to shoulder injury in The Guardian , May 29, 2015, accessed May 30, 2015
Coordinates: 55 ° 52 ′ 7 ″ N , 4 ° 17 ′ 25 ″ W.