Popular Scots museum named among best in world and it's the perfect place to take kids this summer
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AN iconic Scottish museum has been named among the best in the world.
An estimated 197 million of us supported the arts by visiting the world's top 100 museums in 2024.
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An iconic Scottish museum has been named among the best in the world
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The collection includes artefacts from across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery came in at second place in the 'Least Disappointing' category
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With this in mind, researchers at Radical Storage analysed 82,445 visitor reviews of 100 of the most visited museums (including galleries) in the world, to discover the most and least disappointing museums.
The study used 102 keyword indicators for positive and negative experiences, such as "beautiful" or "boring", to find the percentage of reviews which indicated a positive experience and negative experience.
The percentage of positive reviews was then divided by the percentage of negative reviews in the study, to give an overall score out of 100, with 1 being the most disappointing and 100 being the least disappointing.
Glasgow's famous Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum came in at second place in the 'Least Disappointing' category, with a score of 75.9.
Housing 8,000 objects, it started life in 1870 as a City Industrial Museum.
The collection includes art and artefacts not only from Scotland but across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania.
The museum has double the proportion of words mentioning diversity than average (1.2% compared to the average of 0.5%).
The intitution also has double the mentions of friendliness (5% of positive mentions compared to the average of 2.4%).
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC came out on top in the survey with a score of 76.9.
We told how another Scottish museum famed for its panoramic views has also been named among the best in the world.
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It ranked number seven in the list, ahead of London's Natural History Museum and New York's American Museum of Natural History.
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