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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a large civic art gallery and museum on Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow's West End. Built as the Palace of Fine Arts for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition, it houses extensive galleries of fine art, natural history and applied arts under a long, symmetrical red-sandstone building facing the park.

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First raised

1901

Its prime

1901

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1901

What Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum looked like in its prime.

A long, symmetrical Spanish-Baroque massing of warm Locharbriggs red sandstone: broad low wings linked to a taller central block with a steep gabled pediment and twin turreted towers. Each wing carries a long glass-and-iron rooflight run, punctuated by domed pavilion roofs and rich sculptural stonework. The three-arched central entrance sits above broad stone steps and a patterned forecourt, facing the green sweep of Kelvingrove Park; tall arched windows and carved masonry define the façade.

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8 places to explore in 1901.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, including 5 interiors: centre hall — audience floor, concert pipe organ case in the centre hall, west glazed exhibition gallery and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Park forecourt and frontal approachThree-arched entrance porch and stairCentre Hall — audience floorConcert pipe organ case in the Centre HallWest glazed exhibition galleryEast glazed exhibition galleryUpper gallery balcony and viewing balustradeCentral gable and façade sculpture

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