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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.
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 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum consists of three floors: [1] The Lower Ground Floor is the main public entrance to the gallery. It contains a small RBS Gallery and a café. The extended part of the lower ground floor is known as the Campbell Hunter Foundation Education Wing.
Pages in category "Paintings in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
[3] [4] It marked the opening of the city's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and also commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the first world's fair held in the UK, doubling that attendance with 11.5 million visits. [1] Following the style popularised at the 1893 Chicago world's fair, the main exhibition building was in Renaissance-Baroque ...
The Annunciation is a tempera on panel painting in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland made by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli and his studio. [1] The painting, which is 49.5 cm tall and 58.5 cm wide, depicts the angel Gabriel announcing news of the conception and future birth of Jesus to Mary.
Motherless at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Motherless at the Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh. Motherless is an 1889 sculpture by George Anderson Lawson. It depicts a child in the arms of their seated father. It is in the collection of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.
Kelvingrove Park was originally created as the West End Park in 1852, and was partly designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, Head Gardener at Chatsworth House, whose other works included The Crystal Palace in London, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, and the gardens at Lismore Castle in County Waterford; [1] however, the park was mostly designed by architect Charles Wilson and surveyor Thomas Kyle. [2]