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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums. The building is located in Kelvingrove Park in the West End of the city, adjacent to Argyle Street. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is one of Scotland's most popular museums and free visitor attractions. [2]
The Hunterian is a complex of museums located in and operated by the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland.It is the oldest museum in Scotland. [1] It covers the Hunterian Museum, the Hunterian Art Gallery, the Mackintosh House, the Zoology Museum and the Anatomy Museum, which are all located in various buildings on the main campus of the university in the west end of Glasgow.
Tramway. Tramway is a contemporary visual and performing arts venue located in the Scottish city of Glasgow.Based in a former tram depot in the Pollokshields area of the South Side, it consists of two performance spaces and two galleries, as well as offering facilities for community and artistic projects.
Opened in 1996, the Gallery of Modern Art is housed in a neoclassical building in Royal Exchange Square in the heart of Glasgow city centre. Built in 1778 as the townhouse of William Cunninghame of Lainshaw, a wealthy Glasgow Tobacco Lord who made his fortune through the triangular slave trade, [2] the building has undergone a series of different uses.
Gallery of Modern Art: Glasgow City Centre: Glasgow: Glasgow Print Studio: Glasgow: Glasgow School of Art: Glasgow: Glenkiln Sculpture Park: Dumfries and Galloway ...
The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Glasgow Museums is the group of museums and galleries owned by the City of Glasgow, Scotland. [1] They hold about 1.6 million objects including over 60,000 art works, over 200,000 items in the human history collections, over 21,000 items relating to transport and technology, and over 585,000 natural history specimens. [2]
The Galleries housed Glasgow School of Art from 1869 to 1899. [5] In October 1986, the shop frontage building housing the Galleries was ravaged by fire, [6] but they re-opened in 1990 as the largest quality, climate-controlled, temporary exhibition gallery in Scotland. They continue to be the largest exhibition space in the city-centre.
In 1999, Glasgow was voted the UK city of Architecture and Design. The heritage from the Victorian era includes ‘The Herald Building’ on Mitchell Street and ‘The St Enoch Subway’ Station centred in the heart of Glasgow’s city centre. Glasgow’s pride in its achievements is shown in exhibitions within the Kelvin Grove Art Gallery.