Glasgow & the Kelvingrove Museum

Ireland 2007--Glasgow Museum

Our lovely trip to Ireland ended and on Monday morning we flew back to Glasgow to Will and Erin's place, wonderful people to put us up in their wee flat. I think my sister and I were a bit dragged out and didn't really do more that snooze until they got home. If I recall Erin was still in Iceland(?) that night.

The next day we trundled off with directions and map, taking the bus to the Glasgow museum (which I now remember is called the Kelvingrove Museum). It was a cold day and just as well as a transition out of Ireland. Ireland seemed cozier and smaller (and warmer!). Glasgow's a pretty large modern city. Even Dublin held more of a sense of age. So in a way it was good to transition back to Vancouver.

The museum was interesting. Some things the same as all. A section on indigenous wildlife, including all the extinct indigenous wildlife. Humans have wiped out so many species and it continues. It's sad to see that. If we could learn to populate less, farm/hunt more efficiently and in a renewable way, we might exist another thousand years but I'm having my doubts right now.

There were some interesting paintings and sculptures in the museum too. The small section on women's early subjugation and suffragette movements was eye opening. I knew there were a lot of "Victorian" inventions with things like the chastity belt and that any earlier versions have never been found. If I was exploring this farther I'd want to know more of the history and dating of the objects.

The Art Nouveau/Deco section and the stuff on Renne MacIntosh, Scotland's darling were wonderful. I'm very partial to Art Nouveau so spent a lot of time there drooling on things. And of course seeing the jacket from hmm, what era, the Reformation, the 17th century was cool as the only piece of clothing I saw there. I think there might have been a bit I missed.

After we wandered around Glasgow and had the most awful Scottish-Mexican food. A breaded cheeseball with salsa. Potatoes with salsa. My sister got glutened so it added trips to the loo. The rest of the pictures and the trip will be in the last batch and then I'm done.