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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is one of Scotland's most popular museums and free visitor attractions. [2] The art gallery and museum opened in 1901, and the collection encompasses natural history, Egyptian antiquities, design, architecture, medieval arms and armoury, Scottish history and the history of Glasgow.
These museums are also linked to the Open Museum. The Open Museum takes Glasgow Museums' collections beyond the museum walls and out into the community. The Open Museum has reminiscence kits, object handling kits and exhibitions available for loan. This free service allows Glasgow's citizens to borrow museum objects and create their own displays.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (lit. "Vienna Museum of Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. The term Kunsthistorisches Museum applies to both the institution and the main ...
Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna Empress Maria Theresia monument and Natural History Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna. Maria-Theresien-Platz is a large public square in Vienna, Austria, that joins the Ringstraße with the Museumsquartier, a museum of modern arts located in the former Imperial Stables.
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]
In the middle of 1881 the committee in charge of building in Vienna commissioned Hans Makart with the overall equipment of the large staircase. However, since Makart died in 1884, only the lunette pictures had been completed by then and could be affixed to the walls of the museum.
The Hunterian Collection is one of the best-known collections of the University of Glasgow and is cared for by the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery and Glasgow University Library. It contains 650 manuscripts and some 10,000 printed books, [ 1 ] 30,000 coins and 15,000 anatomical and natural history specimens.
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