Kelvingrove Gallery
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| Established | 1901 |
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| Location | Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8AG, Scotland |
| Collection size | art |
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1,261,552 (2015) |
| Website | www.glasgowlife.org.uk |
1,261,552 (2015)
Admission type: Free
The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. It reopened in 2006 after a three-year refurbishment and since then has been one of Scotland's most popular visitor attractions.
The gallery is located on Argyle Street, in the West End of the city, on the banks of the River Kelvin (opposite the architecturally similar Kelvin Hall, which was built in matching style in the 1920s, after the previous hall had been destroyed by fire). It is adjacent to Kelvingrove Park and is situated near the main campus of the University of Glasgow on Gilmorehill.
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is one of Scotland's most popular free attractions and features 22 themed, state-of-the-art galleries displaying an astonishing 8000 objects.
Kelvingrove was reopened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 11 July 2006 after a three-year closure for major refurbishment and restoration. The work cost around £28 million and includes a new restaurant and a large basement extension to its display space to accommodate the 8,000 exhibits now on display. A new display layout and wayfinding scheme was introduced to make the building more visitor-friendly.
Immediately after its 2003–06 refurbishment, the museum was the most popular free-to-enter visitor attraction in Scotland, recording 2.23 million visitors in 2007. These numbers made it the most visited museum in the United Kingdom outside London. In 2015 there were 1,261,552 visitors.
Mummified man's head. Greek-Roman Period, 332 BCE to 395 CE.
Pipe organ built by Lewis & Co, 1901.
Jubilee bust of Queen Victoria. Francis John Williamson, 1887.
Head and upper body of the goddess Sekhmet, Egypt, 18th dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, 1390-1352 BCE.
The Floating Heads by Sophie Cave.
Spitfire F.21 LA198 amongst the animals.
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