Views From The Kitchen

After a closure of three years and a refurbishment bill of not far off £30 million, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum has reopened its doors to huge crowds.

2002 was the last year that Kelvingrove opened in July and the average weekly figures were 28,000 visitors per week. It reopened on Tuesday 11th July, 2006 and in the first week over 141,000 visitors walked through the doors. I was there on the Saturday – though they wouldn’t tell me my number!

The weather was very warm and sunny – and the place was heaving!

Rather than drive around endlessly, trying to find a place to park my car, I used public transport. From the city centre, I got one of the numerous buses which goes out past Kelvingrove. I got off a short distance before I reached Kelvingrove since I wanted to make the final approach on foot (anticipating that there might be a decent photo). What a grand way to approach the building on such a day as this!

This shot shows the approach to Kelvingrove from the east and we see the building almost end on. The Argyle Street entrance is reached at the left. (The darker brown building in the background on the right is the Main Building of Glasgow University.)