Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is one of Scotland’s most popular attractions among locals and visitors alike. Financed in part by the 1888 International Exhibition, held in the neighbouring Kelvingrove Park, the gallery was designed by Sir John W Simpson and EJ Milner Allen and built from red sandstone from Locharbriggs, some 70 miles to the south. The Spanish Baroque style building opened in 1901. The building underwent extensive refurbishment between 2003-2006 and now boasts 22 state-of-the-art galleries with more than 8,000 objects on display, covering areas from natural history, to arms and armour and art from a host of different eras and movements – most notably Salvador Dali’s Christ of St John of the Cross.