Glasgow Gallery and Museum beats Edinburgh and London

November 9, 2018johnrobertson834

From Glasgow Live, yesterday:

A Glasgow attraction has been ranked as the top art museum to visit in the UK – and we’d be remiss not to agree. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum has made it to the top of TripAdvisor’s best rated art museums, bypassing the National Gallery in London, the British Museum and the V&A. The list is decided by traveller votes, with Kelvingrove also named number one of 283 things to do in Glasgow.’

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/kelvingrove-ranked-top-art-museum-15383231

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annraynet November 9, 2018 / 4:28 pm

Has someone noticed that NMS seem to be more interested in shops, cafes and ‘wow’ stuff rather than in anything educational. Also their displays are not all that accessible, e.g. little room for wheelchair users and too much indigestible written information that is often hard to read. They have an obsession with reversed text (light on a darker ground), often with poor contrast so tiring to read

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- johnrobertson834 November 10, 2018 / 6:25 am
  
  NMS?
  
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annraynet November 19, 2018 / 3:40 pm

NMS, maybe its not called that anymore, is/used to be the umbrella organisation for the Chambers St Museums, the military one at the Castle, the Museum of Flight in E Lothian and an agricultural one near Glasgow. It’s the Chambers St ones which I feel have lost their way and their core function of education through the objects in their care.
Its all about visitor numbers and selling them stuff in the shop and food in the cafes.

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