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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Review

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Five of 20 days: Walk from Glasgow University to the Kevin Grove Museum of Art (The Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum) is one of Scotland's hottest free attractions and the third-largest British museum outside London. Part of the construction of the Kevin Grove Museum of Art was funded by proceeds from the 1888 World Exhibition at Kevin Grove Park, which was opened in 1901 by John William Simpson and Milner Allen. It is in Spanish Baroque style and adheres to the tradition of Glasgow people using local red sandstone. It has one of the world's best collections of weapons and armor, as well as a large collection of natural history. The collection includes many fine European artworks including the Old Master, French Impressionists, Dutch Renaissance, Scottish colorists and Glasgow Schools. The museum contains Salvador Dali's famous work "Christ of the Cross" (Christ of Saint John of the Cross) ~ Figure IV, which was purchased by the curator when he met Dali. From 2003 to 2006, the painting was moved to the San Montgomery Museum of Religious Life and Art (St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art)

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Posted: Nov 22, 2017
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  • _TI***rc
    5/5Outstanding

    lovely day exploring the museumit is a good gem in the heart of Glasgow next to the university

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    Posted: Oct 5, 2023
  • Lindt_sss
    5/5Outstanding
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    I don't know if there is a pipe organ performance every afternoon, very sacred music. Many exhibits have only one photo or borrowed, so I can only feel it roughly.

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    Posted: Dec 7, 2022
  • Sheda11
    4/5Excellent

    Glad we didn’t visit over a weekend & had the place to ourselves on a weekday…. Lots of space to view what we wanted. Enjoyed the Glasgow Boys exhibition

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    Posted: Feb 4, 2022
  • 畅打一生
    5/5Outstanding
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    Wherever I go, I will definitely visit the local museums as time permits. Because he gives you the most direct understanding of the local customs and history. Kevin Grove Museum of Art, near the main building of Glasgow University, is a Gothic building with a particularly dazzling red brick wall. Free to visit, with more abundant parking spaces. The museum is large in size and has a wide variety of Tibetan varieties, from animal fossils in ancient times to painting sculptures in modern times. It is a museum that exhibits multi-element art. Among them, Asian elements, Chinese antiques, world famous paintings and sculptures are all exhibited in kind. What impressed me more was Van Gogh's self-portrait, the fractured fan and embroidery of the royal Qing Dynasty in China, the ancient blue and white porcelain of China, the silverware left by the Vikings, the fossils of animals from ancient times and the cultural relics of different periods in Glasgow.

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    Posted: Jun 4, 2017
  • 山水人生
    5/5Outstanding
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    Leaving the hotel and walking to the Kevin Grove Art Museum in the west of the city, this road is longer and the sun is shining, and it is hard to walk. It is already 16:10 to the museum and only 50 minutes to leave the museum. We didn't know much about visiting the museum, which was rich in exhibits. Because the focus of the tour was unclear, we were running around the museum like a fly without a head, and the result was a general look. Fifteen minutes before the closing, the staff began to clear the venue, and we were the last group of tourists to leave. Later, compared with the museum's introduction, I found that there were still many important exhibits that I didn't see. To be fair, it takes at least half a day to visit this museum, and we can only count as a visit.

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    Posted: Dec 6, 2016
  • Hosta Wang
    3/5Average

    In fact not as interesting as I had expected. Has collections of Scottish, French and German history but a bit dull.

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    Posted: Sep 11, 2023
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