Kelvingrove Art Gallery

The full name of this marvelous Glasgow institution is actually Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum--the museum part is important because it is partly a natural history museum, and even more. It has a magnificent organ at one end of its central court, where a half-hour concert is presented every day by an eminent organist (today's was from Germany).

This image is a merged panorama--hence the curves, which are not present either in the long building or the street. To quote a website, the top quality collections include "superb paintings and sculptures, silver and ceramics, European armour, weapons and firearms, clothing and furniture. The natural history of Scotland is treated in depth and there are displays of relics from Scotland's history and prehistory." Perhaps the single best-known painting is Dali's Christ of St. John of the Cross, acquired to some controversy in 1952.

We spent five hours at the museum, and could have used more time. This is worth viewing large--you can inspect the gull in the upper right (probably a lesser black-backed--they are common in Glasgow, and the wings are too dark for a herring gull).