Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum houses one of Europe’s great art collections. It is the most popular free-to-enter visitor attraction in Scotland and the most visited museum in the United Kingdom outside London. The purpose-built museum opened in 1901. The scope of the museum is wide ranging and, when Kelvingrove re-opened in July 2006 after a three-year restoration and redisplay project, it was organised into two halves: Life and Expression. The Life galleries represent natural history, human history and prehistory. The Expression galleries include the fine art collections. A significant part of the paintings collection comes from the bequest of Archibald McLellan. The important collection of French 19th century paintings includes works by Monet, Gauguin and Renoir. Further highlights are Rembrandt’s ‘Man in Armour’, ‘Christ and the Adulteress’ by Titian and Salvador Dali’s ‘Christ of St John of the Cross’. Scottish art includes paintings by the Scottish Colourists and the Glasgow Boys.

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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is managed by Glasgow Museums
Glasgow Museums is an Art UK Founder Partner
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8AG Scotland
museums@glasgowlife.org.uk
0141 276 9599
http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/kelvingrove/Pages/default.aspxPlease remember to double-check the opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit
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