One of Britain's most important museums is the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. Originally opened in 1901, the Glasgow Scotland museum's collections range from arms and armor to British and European art.
The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum features 8,000 displays. Museum exhibits include a Salvador Dali painting, Christ of St. John of the Cross; a WW II Spitfire fighter from RAF City of Glasgow Squadron and Egyptian treasures on loan from the British Museum.
The art gallery has 21 themes, including Scottish Art, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style, Scottish Identity in Art; Scotland's Wildlife, Scotland's First Peoples and Glasgow and the World. (Glasgow, with its grand Victorian buildings like Kelvingrove, was once called the second city of the British Empire.)
Admission to the museum and art gallery is free.
