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[5] [6] Kelvingrove House stood to the east [7] of the present art gallery museum, on the site now occupied by Kelvingrove Park's skatepark. [8] The Kelvingrove Museum's growing collection led to a new wing being added to the house between 1874 and 1876. The original Kelvingrove House was demolished in 1899, with the museum wing being ...
This museum opened in 1876. [2] In 1888 a temporary but large exhibition, the 1888 International Exhibition, was held in the grounds to gauge public demand for a larger facility. If anything, this highlighted the inadequacy of Kelvingrove House as a museum, and as it now stood in a public park, limited its alternative uses. [4]
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.
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]
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum: 1901: George Frampton: Sculpture group: Bronze: Category A [34] [35] More images: South African War Memorial Kelvingrove Park: 1906: William Birnie Rhind: Statue on pedestal: Bronze and stone: Category B: Q17811618 [36] [33] More images: Lord Kelvin: Kelvingrove Park: 1913: Archibald Macfarlane Shannan Seated ...
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Pages in category "Paintings in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
In 1993, the painting was moved to the city's St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, returning to Kelvingrove for the latter's reopening in July 2006. In 2022, the painting was loaned for a five-month period to The Auckland Project in Bishop Auckland , County Durham to be displayed alongside El Greco 's painting of Christ of the Cross.