Kelvingrove Museum Glasgow, Building + Architect, Photo, Date, Project

Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow

Gallery & Museum, Glasgow, Scotland

post updated 26 January 2022

Kelvingrove Museum Glasgow

Built: 1901
Refurbished: 2006

photographs © David Barbour / BDP

Kelvingrove Art Gallery : further details about this famous Glasgow building

Normal opening hours at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum are 10am – 5pm Monday to Thursday and Saturday, and 11am – 5pm Friday and Sunday

Admission to Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum is free

Award: RIAS Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture, 2006

Project Managers + Cost Consultants: Capita Symonds
Engineers: Halcrow Group
Mechanical & Electrical Engineers: Hulley and Kirkwood
Contractor: HBG

Glasgow City Council – Renovation of the Building

The rest of the near 200,000 pieces from Kelvingrove Art Gallery were taken to The Open Museum.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum – New Building information received 25 Feb 2003

Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum
Greenpeace Forest Crime Unit halted work at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum on 6 Sep 2004 for apparently using merbau in its refurbishment, demanding that it be replaced with timber certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as being from legal and sustainable sources. Greenpeace researchers had uncovered contractors using merbau timber from South East Asian rainforests, home to several endangered species including the orang-utan. Glasgow Council officials ordered contractors to stop work replacing hardwood floors during the Lottery funded refurbishment of Kelvingrove art gallery and museum, after nearly 100 Greenpeace activists invaded the site to expose the use of endangered rainforest timber.

Scottish Design Awards 2007 – Listed Building Re-use Shortlist: Building Design Partnership – Kelvingrove New Century Project

Gulbenkian Prize : 2007 shortlisted