Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Glasgow

The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow is Scotland’s most popular museum and one of the UK’s most popular museums. In the gallery you can see a collection of skeletons of prehistoric animals, a collection of sculptures, furniture, drawings, a collection of art objects of Ancient Egypt, a collection of armor and weapons.

The museum was built in 1901 from red sandstone. The building of the museum is more like a palace and is made in the Spanish Baroque style. The gallery was opened in preparation for the International Exhibition. In the center of the main building is a magnificent organ. The main part of the exhibition is the collection of the famous resident of the city - Archibald MacLellan, who presented the museum with 400 interesting paintings. The museum provides works by Rubens, Rembrandt, Botticelli, Jacob van Reisdal, Degas, Giovanni Bellini, Titian, Picasso, Van Gogh, Dali, Monet, Rossetti, Pissarro, as well as paintings by Scottish painters John Petty, William Orchardson, Horatio McCulloch, Samuel Peplo, Henry Reburn.

In 2006, after three years of renovation, the gallery reopened to the public. Now the museum is equipped with many interactive expositions designed for children. There is a cafe in the museum building.