mtbc | Museum visit

We drove to Glasgow to visit the Kelvingrove Museum which turned out to be better than I had hoped, not least because the local business Tantrum Doughnuts have a store close to the museum so that made for an agreeable breakfast stop on the way in. The museum itself has a lovely interior, even featuring a pipe organ that they played for us at lunchtime though without any obvious note of which pieces had been selected.

I particularly enjoyed the art: there was rather more than I had expected, some rather good. Represented painters ranged from L. S. Lowry to Rachel Ruysch and I also liked some of the sculptures. Other small highlights for me ranged from clothing worn by the Karen people of Myanmar to hand-inked hieroglyphs from Egypt.

There were also many natural creatures represented; I particularly liked seeing a pangolin. A literally large attraction was the cast of a diplodocus skeleton borrowed from the Natural History Museum; in another room hung a restored Spitfire. There were also examples of stained glass depicting scenes like the Coronation of Mary.

Among other fare, the café offered an interesting mushroom soup. I had expected something with many tiny fragments of mushroom in a creamy base but what came was a flavorsome clear broth bearing various mushroom pieces and vegetables, no less pleasing for being unexpected.