A person travels all over the UK—Glasgow Museum
Historic Glasgow has many museums worth visiting, here are a few well-known free exhibition halls:
🪸Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery🪸
(Pictures 4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣) Ranked among the top 10 museums in the UK, with numerous exhibition halls, it is one of the museums with the richest collection of art in Europe. A pianist will play the huge organ set in the hall from 1-2 pm on weekends.
📍Name: Kelvingrove Art G&M
📍Time: Monday to Thursday and Saturday 10:00-17:00
Friday and Sunday: 11:00-17:00
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🪸Hunter Museum🪸
(Pictures 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣) A museum located within the University of Glasgow, established in 1807, it is the oldest public museum in Scotland, displaying a series of impressive items related to natural history, anatomy, and medicine.
📍Name: The Hunterian Museum
📍Time: Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-17:00
Closed on Mondays
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🪸Glasgow Gallery of Modern Arts
(Picture 7️⃣) This building was built in 1778, in the neoclassical style, with three floors each being an exhibition hall, the exhibits are mainly modern paintings and sculptures.
📍Name: Glasgow Gallery of Modern Arts
📍Time: Monday to Thursday and Saturday 10:00-17:00
Friday and Sunday: 11:00-17:00
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🪸St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art🪸
(Picture 8️⃣) A religious museum located in Glasgow Cathedral Square, it was rebuilt on the basis of the bishop's palace. The attraction of this museum is that it blurs the boundaries between religion and culture, and on the other hand, it explores different beliefs.
📍Name: St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
📍Time: Monday to Thursday and Saturday 10:00-17:00
Friday and Sunday: 11:00-17:00
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🪸Riverside Museum🪸
(Pictures 9-14) This museum located on the banks of the Clyde River is very interesting, the building was designed by the famous female architect Zaha Hadid. Opened in 2011 to replace the original Transport Museum, it won the European Museum of the Year Award in 2013. The museum houses a large collection of transport and technology items collected by the city over hundreds of years. There is a huge old sailing ship parked next to the museum, the Glenlee, built in the 19th century, which can also be visited.
📍Name: Riverside Museum
📍Time: Monday to Thursday and Saturday 10:00-17:00
Friday and Sunday: 11:00-17:00
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lovely day exploring the museumit is a good gem in the heart of Glasgow next to the university
I don't know if there is a pipe organ performance every afternoon, very sacred music. Many exhibits have only one photo or borrowed, so I can only feel it roughly.
Glad we didn’t visit over a weekend & had the place to ourselves on a weekday…. Lots of space to view what we wanted. Enjoyed the Glasgow Boys exhibition
Wherever I go, I will definitely visit the local museums as time permits. Because he gives you the most direct understanding of the local customs and history. Kevin Grove Museum of Art, near the main building of Glasgow University, is a Gothic building with a particularly dazzling red brick wall. Free to visit, with more abundant parking spaces. The museum is large in size and has a wide variety of Tibetan varieties, from animal fossils in ancient times to painting sculptures in modern times. It is a museum that exhibits multi-element art. Among them, Asian elements, Chinese antiques, world famous paintings and sculptures are all exhibited in kind. What impressed me more was Van Gogh's self-portrait, the fractured fan and embroidery of the royal Qing Dynasty in China, the ancient blue and white porcelain of China, the silverware left by the Vikings, the fossils of animals from ancient times and the cultural relics of different periods in Glasgow.
Leaving the hotel and walking to the Kevin Grove Art Museum in the west of the city, this road is longer and the sun is shining, and it is hard to walk. It is already 16:10 to the museum and only 50 minutes to leave the museum. We didn't know much about visiting the museum, which was rich in exhibits. Because the focus of the tour was unclear, we were running around the museum like a fly without a head, and the result was a general look. Fifteen minutes before the closing, the staff began to clear the venue, and we were the last group of tourists to leave. Later, compared with the museum's introduction, I found that there were still many important exhibits that I didn't see. To be fair, it takes at least half a day to visit this museum, and we can only count as a visit.
In fact not as interesting as I had expected. Has collections of Scottish, French and German history but a bit dull.