Iconic Glasgow museum named 'second best' in the world
The Glasgow institution missed out on the top spot, which was snapped up by The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., in the US.
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Radical Storage claims that over 197million people visited the top 100 museums in 2024, with visitor numbers returning to their 'natural levels' following the pandemic.
To combine the world's most and least disappointing museum list, Radical Storage analysed visitor reviews of 100 of the most visited museums (including galleries) across the globe.
The study used 102 keyword indicators for positive and negative experiences, such as 'beautiful' or 'boring', to find the percentage of reviews that indicated a good or bad experience.
The percentage of positive reviews was then divided by the percentage of negative reviews in the study to give an overall score, expressed out of 100.
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Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum received an impressive score of 75.9, closely behind the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., which received a score of 76.9 out of 100.
The world's third-best museum, according to the ranking, is the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, which scored 74.1 out of 100.
Revealing Kelvingrove as one of the world's best, Radical Storage said: "Hot on the heels of the Washington, D.C. gallery is the Glaswegian Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
"This institution has the same small proportion of negative reviews (3.5%) and a similar amount (53.8%) of positive reviews. This gives the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow a score of 75.9.
"Starting life in 1870 as a City Industrial Museum, the rebranded Art Gallery and Museum opened in 1901.
"More recently, the Kelvingrove reopened after three years of work in 2006.
"The £27.9 million refurbishment has clearly paid off.
"The collection includes art and artefacts not only from Scotland but across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania.
"It's perhaps unsurprising, then, that the museum had double the proportion of words mentioning diversity than average (1.2% compared to the average of 0.5%).
"The museum also had double the mentions of friendliness (5% of positive mentions compared to the average of 2.4%)."
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