Scotland’s two largest cities are as different as chalk and cheese. Edinburgh is the country’s cultural and political hub, and Glasgow is the industrial powerhouse with rough and ready areas of the city that are out of bounds for tourists – or at least that’s the image most people have, but things are not always as they seem. Edinburgh has rough areas too, and Glasgow has its own fair share of cultural institutions – and there are none better than the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

This fabulous Victorian building was constructed, like many of Glasgow’s buildings, out of red sandstone from Locharbriggs Quarry near Dumfries. Edinburgh may have the National Museums, but I don’t think any of them are as handsome as the Kelvingrove.

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Originally posted 2021-10-24 12:20:01.