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	Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		First opened in 1901, Kelvingrove closed its doors to visitors in 2003, and decanted all its contents to temporary accommodation elsewhere in Glasgow as part of a £27.9m project to return the museum to an "as good as new" state.
		The "new" Kelvingrove that opened its doors in 2006 did away with internal partitions that over the decades had slowly cut the sightlines through an interior that, though large, is surprisingly simple in layout.
		Kelvingrove's exterior was made of red sandstone from the Lochabriggs Quarry near Dumfries (like much else that was built in Glasgow in the late 1800s) and the interior used a much lighter coloured sandstone from Giffnock, to the south of Glasgow.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /glasgow/kelvingrove/index.html (1163 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
		A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment.
		An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art, and usually primarily paintings and sculpture.
		The museum housed the painting Christ of St John of the Cross by Salvador Dali until 1993, when it was moved to the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kelvingrove-Art-Gallery-and-Museum (956 words)

	Art gallery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art, and usually primarily paintings, illustrations, and sculpture.
		Generally, the term art gallery is used to mean buildings or locations dedicated to displaying and/or selling art, though the large rooms in museums where art is displayed for the public are often referred to as galleries as well, with a room dedicated to Ancient Egyptian art often being called the Egyptian Gallery, for example.
		Art galleries were built alongside museums and public libraries as part of the municipal drive for literacy and public education.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Art_gallery (630 words)

	Places to Visit - Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
		museum and art gallery at Kelvingrove (by the banks of the river Kelvin and facing the imposing University of Glasgow
		One of the gallery's most famous paintings, Salvador Dali's "Christ of St John of the Cross" is now displayed in the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life, beside Glasgow Cathedral.
		The museum displays Milanese field armour (purchased in 1938 from the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst) and Greenwich field armour (pictured here) for man and horse from the 16th century (the only example of its kind to survive).
	www.rampantscotland.com /visit/blvisitkelvingrove.htm (288 words)

	Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, Museum, BDP
		Galleries had their floors lifted and carefully replaced and wall and cornice plaster was raggled and lovingly restored in order to accommodate a flexible grid of power, data, security and lighting services.
		The rest of the near 200,000 pieces from Kelvingrove Art Gallery currently on display or in storage at the Art Gallery and Museum will be taken to The Open Museum, due to open this Autumn in South Nitshill.
		Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery is undergoing major changes not least of which is the restoration of the stone work.
	www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk /kelvingrove_art_gallery.htm (1387 words)

	Glasgow
		The city is blessed with amenities which cover a wide range of cultural activities, from curling to opera and from football to art appreciation.
		The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (currently undergoing major renovation) has an excellent collection of paintings including many old masters, French Impressionists etc, and is reputedly the second most visited museum in the United Kingdom.
		It is housed in a museum situated in the Pollock Country Park.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/g/gl/glasgow.html (3606 words)

	Overview of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum as seen from Glasgow University.
		Partly financed by the International Exhibition of 1888, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum was built in 1901 by the English architects Sir J.W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen.
		Kelvingrove was formally reopened in July 2006 by HM Queen Elizabeth II following a three-year closure for a major refurbishment, which cost £27.9 million.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurefirst1309.html (190 words)

	Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
		The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is the city of Glasgow's premier museum and art gallery.
		The original construction of Kelvingrove was partly funded by the proceeds of the 1888 international Exhibition held in Kelvingrove park.
		The Kelvingrove museum and art gallery is due to re-open on the 11th of July 2006 after restoration work.
	www.gnws.co.uk /html/kelvingrove.htm (281 words)

	Glasgow Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery
		The Kelvingrove Museum has been shut for major refurbishment and renovation since July 2003 and the work is expected to be finished with a official opening date on the 11th of July and the Official opening ceremony in September.
		With the Kelvingrove Museums closure most of the museum items and artefacts were moved to other museums within Glasgow city, the biggest collection being moved to the McClellan Galleries on Sauchiehall Street.
		The Kelvingrove Museum was the permanent building of the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition, which was chosen in preference to other, and better, designs - among them one in which Charles Rennie Mackintosh had a large hand.
	www.argyllguesthouseglasgow.co.uk /glasgow_kelvingrove_museum.html (379 words)

	Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
		It was opened in its present form in 1902 and remains the greatest achievement in the UK of the Victorian Municipal Museum Movement.
		Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is located in picturesque Kelvin Park in the popular West End of the city.
		Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum currently has wheelchair access and a lift to main gallery areas.
	www.glasgowguide.co.uk /events-venues/kelvingrove.htm (384 words)

	Welcome to the Frick
		Millet to Matisse: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Painting from Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow is guest curated by Vivien Hamilton, Curator of Art at the Glasgow Museums and a lecturer at the University of Glasgow, Department of Art History.
		Kelvingrove Art Gallery, one of the institutions that constitute the Glasgow Museums, houses what is widely acknowledged as the most important municipal collection of French paintings in Great Britain.
		Over the course of its 93-year history, the American Federation of Arts (AFA) has earned a reputation for initiating and developing art exhibitions of exceptional quality and scholarship that are presented in museums across the country and around the world.
	www.frickart.org /programs/exhibitions/detail/50.html (1485 words)

	Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum - Kalahari Project
		Development of new displays at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum connects inner city children in Glasgow to a community under threat in the Kalahari
		An innovative new display in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, which reopens in 2006, is set to highlight the lives of threatened indigenous communities from around the world which are represented in Glasgow Museums’ collections.
		D’kar Primary School, Botswana, where the workshops originated, was the first to respond to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum’s call to participate in the new display.
	www.mla.gov.uk /website/policy/international/Case_Studies/kelvingrove_kalahari (591 words)

	Glasgow West End Sights - Travelscotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Glasgow's greatest art gallery (with the possible exception of the Burrell Collection) is the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, which stands below the university, on the other side of the River Kelvin, at the most westerly end of Argyle and Sauchiehall Streets, near Kelvingrove Park.
		The art gallery and museum, first opened to the public in 1902, can be entered from the "rear, leading to one of the most popular urban myths, that it was mistakenly built back to front and when the architect found out he was so distraught that he jumped from one of the towers.
		Attached to the gallery is the Mackintosh House, a stunning reconstruction of the main interiors from 78 Southpark Avenue, the Glasgow home of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife, Margaret MacDonald, from 1906 to 1914.
	www.travelscotland.co.uk /guide/Glasgow_West_End_Sights (1494 words)

	Art Gallery & Museum
		Please note that after an absence of several years (during which it was displayed at the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art) Salvador Dali's world renowned painting Christ of St John of the Cross makes a welcome return to the first floor of the West Gallery.
		Children are well catered for throughout the museum and there is a new area devoted to the under 5s where young children can experience lots of hands-on-fun.
		The "Mini Museum" is located on the ground floor near the west hall.
	www.clyde-valley.com /glasgow/kelvingr.htm (237 words)

	£400m treasure trove ups sticks É gently - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Some 200,000 works of art Ð several never exhibited Ð will be moved from the west end site to the new £7m Open Museum in Nitshill in the south of the city.
		The museum's overhaul will include a new entrance under the statue of St Mungo, the opening of the lower ground floor, currently used as a store, and better explanations of the art on show.
		Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Ð the most visited UK museum outside London Ð; wasÊvotedÊGlaswegians' favourite building in 1999.
	www.sundayherald.com /31681?PHPSESSID=22b9c8cd974ef2023588db4a07766d71 (620 words)

	Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship @ Strathclyde: Local Information Section
		Gallery of Modern Art - The focus of the Gallery is on contemporary social issues.
		Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum - Unfortunately, the Museum is currently closed for refurbishment until early 1996.
		Most of the Museum's collection is on display at the McLellan Gallery and the remaining parts are on display at the Open Museum, Nitshill.
	www.entrepreneur.strath.ac.uk /info/local/info.htm (1365 words)

	Kelvingrove appeal gets £1/2m donation - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum's refurbishment appeal has been given a £500,000 donation, bringing it closer to its £5million target.
		Money from the fund will be used to pay for two new discovery centres for art and history in the 102-year-old museum and art gallery when it re-opens in 2006.
		Trust chairman Russell Leather said: "It is a substantial donation because the Kelvingrove Museum is a major cultural asset.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /print/news/5020250.shtml (376 words)

	The Glaswegian Links to Glasgow and Scottish Sites
		Museum is in the south of the City, close to Shields Road underground station and within easy access from the City Centre.
		Among the city's cultural attractions are museums, art galleries, theaters, and concert halls.
		The Hunterian Museum is housed in a Victorian Gothic building on the grounds of the university, which was founded in 1451.
	www.glaswegian.us (1000 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Protesters claim victory over rainforest timber in museum
		The environmentalists occupied Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in protest at the use of wood from the rain-forests of south-east Asia where several animal species, including orang-utans, face extinction through loss of their habitat.
		Kelvingrove, which is the most visited museum outside London, was awarded almost £13m by the Lottery, some of which, it is claimed, has been spent on merbau timber.
		Mr O’Neill added: "Greenpeace have indicated that this morning’s action at Kelvingrove was not an attack on Glasgow city council or on the value of the Kelvingrove refurbishment project.
	news.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=1051992004 (689 words)

	Greenpeace forests campaign: Save or Delete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		WORK ON THE National Lottery funded refurbishment of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, the most visited museum in the UK outside London, was today (6 September 2004) halted by almost 100 Greenpeace activists from the Forest Crime Unit exposing the use of rainforest timber in the project.
		The timber being used at the gallery has come from the rainforests of South East Asia, where species such as the orang-utan are heading towards extinction due to the destruction of their habitat.
		Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum was awarded almost ï¾£13m by the National Lottery, some of which has been spent on merbau timber flooring.
	www.greenpeace.org.uk /forests/forests.cfm?ucidparam=20040905151645&CFID=1246856&CFTOKEN=73234743 (603 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Spectrum - Behind the scenes at the Museum
		It is one of 200,000 artefacts being moved as part of Kelvingrove’s large-scale restoration and redisplay process, a logistical feat that probably does owe a degree of its success to divine intervention.
		In another part of the museum, a stressed teacher is trying to control two errant pupils, Raymond and Chantal, who have broken off from a visiting school group and are running amok in the natural-history area.
		Wilson has a long history with the museum, having explored what she calls "this huge and magical place" as a schoolgirl while waiting for her mother to finish her day’s work here, and then in adulthood, both as a nanny and as part of the cleaning team.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /spectrum.cfm?id=698542003 (2093 words)

	MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS
		The Heritage Lottery Fund has made it a condition of the grant that at least 21 new curatorial staff are appointed at the city's main Kelvingrove art gallery and museum.
		It means that up to 39 "security guards" who earn up to £22,000 a year could lose their jobs because their work would overlap with the roles of the more experienced curators.
		The green-jacketed guards, a familiar presence in the city's museums, have benefited from generous shift allowances and overtime payments which have boosted their incomes.
	www.museum-security.org /01/157a.html (1025 words)

	Glasgow Photo Library - Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
		The City of Glasgow's museum and art gallery at Kelvingrove (by the banks of the river Kelvin and facing the imposing University of Glasgow buildings on the other side) was officially opened in 1901.
		Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is Scotland's most visited free entry visitor attraction.
		The entire building is closing in the spring of 2003 for a £25 million refurbishment which will result in larger display areas and the latest interactive exhibits.
	www.rampantscotland.com /glasgow/glw_kelvingrove.htm (213 words)

	givenow.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Glasgow Airport is to sponsor new displays at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum through a £100,000 donation to the Kelvingrove Refurbishment Appeal.
		The world renowned museum, first opened in 1902, is currently being refurbished by Glasgow City Council in a £27.9 million project and is set to re-open to the public in 2006 offering world-class displays and amenities.
		Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is not only a world renowned museum, but a much loved part of the city’s heritage.
	www.givenow.org /news/more.asp?id=3085 (297 words)

	Glasgow: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Kelvingrove Gallery was built to house the 1901 International Exhibition.
		According to local legend, the gallery was built back to front by mistake, but this is just a myth—it was intended to face the river rather than the road.
		The collection within ranges from local historical art to Rodin sculptures, natural history specimens of varying interest and a Storm Trooper costume from the original Star Wars films.
	www.getours.com /detail.html?detailID=2469 (88 words)

	Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Glasgow
		And with the Kelvingrove Museum, we're talking here about a place so grand, and filled with such treasure, that even if you were being truly objective (and of course not as biased as myself), you would find it pretty hard to keep it out a list of top ten global attractions, not just Scottish.
		To be honest, if you're thinking of attending the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum anytime soon, it'd be more enjoyable for you just to turn up, put the guidebooks away for a while, and see for yourself what's there, particularly given how regularly the exhibitions change around.
		Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is located in the stunning Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow.
	www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com /kelvingrove-art-gallery.html (1102 words)

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