Address: Argyle St, Glasgow, G3 8AG
Tel: 0141 276 9599
Web: www.glasgowmuseums.com
Admission: Free
Opening hours: Monday to Thursday and Saturday 10am - 5pm, Friday and Sunday 11am - 5pm.
Situated in Glasgows West End, surrounded by Kelvingrove Park, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is an absolutely stunning building; the red sandstone walls and high, majestic turrets and beautiful surroundings. Even just going to see it from the outside is worthwhile!
After a 3 year, £35 million restoration project, Kelvingrove reopened in July 2006. Since then, over 2 million visitors have marvelled at Kelvingrove’s treasures.
There are 8,000 objects on display in the newly renovated gallery. Some were already there before, but there are also quite a few new ones including a huge giraffe, a 4-metre Ceratosaur and a restored Spitfire. The new Mackintosh and Glasgow Style galleries explore the genius of Glasgows most famous architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It also hosts the city’s largest display of the Glasgow Style’s wide range of media and techniques. In addition, Dali’s iconic painting Christ of St John of the Cross has returned to Kelvingrove, and sits alongside the likes of Botticelli, Rembrandt, Monet, Van Gogh, and Picasso.
The museum is very child friendly, and the natural history section is particularly interesting for both adults and children.
Another point of interest is the road leading to the back entrance of the museum. Some people will tell you that the building was accidentally built backwards, but that is not the case. The truth is, the position of the road changed at the last minute!
The museum also features education facilities, shops and a lovely café. The new Exhibition Gallery hosts exciting temporary exhibitions throughout the year, and you can find out more about the collections and go online in the Study Centre and Library.
For more information go to the official website.
My husband and I visited Glasgow Art Galleries with out 2 and a half year old son. We had a brilliant day.
We started by looking at all the animals which my son loved, he learned about a few new ones that he hadn’t heard of before an liked seeing the full size that they are opposed to looking at pictures in books! We then went to look at the display on mummies which he thought was very funny as I am his mummy!
There was so much to see and do that we only did the ground floor that day and are planning a second visit to go round all the art exhibits on the second floor!
Definitely a great day out in Glasgow that I would recommend to anyone!
As me & my mum and dad entered the art musem we could see alot of intresting stuff on the walls and hanging from the cellings. I was really intrested to find out about the different types of animals and to find stuff out about the dragons that used to live so thats were we went first. As we were heading to the animal part i passed a lot of beautiful paintings.The Mona Lisa was one of my favourite paintings as she looked so serious. As we got to the animal part i found alot of information about all sorts of different animals such as birds , dinasours , foxes and alot more. I shall look foward to returning to the musem again.
My wee boy just loves Kelvingrove and so do I. Where I love to look at the art and around the many other fascinating objects, my wee boy who is 7 would rather sit at the wee table where you can race other children by rubbing your finger against a dot as fast as you can to make the car things (not sure if it is actually cars) race against each other. He would sit there all day if he could and we have to drag him away with promises of “we can come back later” for another go!
Oh how children of his age appreciate art sometimes!