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St. Mungo Museum
A well known religious
museum in Glasgow is the St. Mungo Museum of
Religious Life and Art. It is famous for
being the world’s only public museum solely
devoted to this topic.
Made open to the public in 1993, the museum
is housed in Cathedral Square, just off High
Street on property owned by the Glasgow
Cathedral. The museum was built near the
site of the Glasgow Archbishop’s diocese
complex of castles from the Middle Ages,
some of it can be viewed within the
Cathedral and at Glasgow Green at the
Peoples Palace Museum. St. Mungo was design
in a medieval style so as to blend in with
the Provands Lordship House which is very
nearby.
The St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and
Art boasts of a wide array of exhibits that
showcase the major religions of the world.
This includes a Zen garden and an Islamic
sculpture covered in Moorish calligraphy. It
once had in its collection Salvador Dalí’s
painting of Christ and of Saint John of
the
Cross while the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and
Museum was undergoing refurbishment.
Just a stone’s throw is Glasgow’s oldest
house, the Provand’s Lordship, as well as
the Glasgow Necropolis and the Glasgow Royal
Infirmary.
