Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
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The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, set in a grand Spanish Baroque red sandstone building in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, opened in 1901 and welcomes over a million visitors each year with free admission. It houses more than 8,000 objects across 22 themed galleries spanning fine art, design, natural history, Egyptian antiquities and medieval arms and […]
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Facilities include two cafés (a lower-level conservatory café and an upper-hall coffee shop), a gift shop, a 142-space pay-and-display car park (10 blue-badge bays, EV charging), step-free access via lifts and ramps, accessible toilets, induction-loop hearing assistance and a Borrow Cup reusable-cup scheme in the cafés.
Special exhibits feature Salvador Dalí’s Christ of St John of the Cross, Sir Roger the Asian elephant, the Avant Armour, a suspended Spitfire F.21 LA198 of 602 Squadron and a fully reconstructed Charles Rennie Mackintosh tearoom interior.
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- 01412769599
- museums@glasgowlife.org.uk
- www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/kelvingrove-art-gallery-and-museum
- Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AG