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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Glasgow

Located on Argyle Street in the West End of Glasgow is The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum - a must-see museum and art gallery in Scotland. A famous Glasgow landmark, the building opened in 1902 and The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum attracts more than one million visitors each year making it the most visited museum in the UK outside of London. The museum's collections mostly came from the McLellan Galleries and from the old Kelvingrove House Museum in Kelvingrove Park.

With a vast collection that features everything from fine and decorative arts to archaeology and the natural world, the number of individual items in the natural history department alone is impressive, including 300-million-year-old fossils of marine life from the Glasgow area. The museum has one of the finest collections of arms and armour in the world which includes such treasures as the earliest near-complete field armour in the world (the famous 'Avant' armour, made in Milan c1440).

The fine art collection includes many outstanding European artworks, including works by the Old Masters, French Impressionists, Dutch Renaissance and Scottish Colourists. The museum also houses Christ of Saint John of the Cross by Salvador Dali.

Address
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Argyle Street
Glasgow,
G3 8AG

Official website
www.glasgowmuseums.com