Day 18 Glasgow's churches and museums

The day started with the Riverside Museum of Transport.  It opened in 2011.  If it moved in the last 100 years in Europe and the United Kingdom, there is an example of it here.  Trains, bicycles, cars, buses, motorcycles and ships. Although not viewer friendly, the 40 odd cars on the wall was amazing.  As was the 30 odd motorcycles displayed similarly.  

Huge locomotives, buses that go back to when they were on rails and pulled by horses.  Hundreds of intricate models of ships that go way back in time.  Really amazing. museum.  Moored outside, also for touring, was the tall ship Glenlee, a cargo ship built in 1896, one of only 5 afloat today.

Next we visited the Govan Old Parish Church to look at the unique Viking hogback stones.  These were thought to be grave slabs, but very unique from what we had seen before from the 10th to the 12th century.

Next,  the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  This museum opened in 1901 and now has 8,000 object on display in 22 themed galleries.  A good, solid big city museum, but our favorite piece was Salvador Dali's Christ of St. John of the Cross.    Not known, (at all) for his faith.  He surprised both his admirers and his critics with this piece.

 Next to the painting of 'God's view of Christ' was this description.  "Dali had studied nuclear physics and felt that the discovery of the atomic nature of the universe proved the existence of God.  He set himself as the first artist to paint pictures that would combine science with religious belief, and called this Nuclear Mysticism."  

Other exhibits we enjoyed.

Close up of above.

"The King" after his better days.

We finished the day at the Glasgow Cathedral.  Briefly, it was built in the 12th century as a Catholic Cathedral, but at the time of the Reformation it was one of the few Catholic churches that wasn't burned to the ground by the Reformers.  The local's protected it with their lives, literally, and the Protestants relented.  At one time it actually held three different services; different denominations.  A beautiful church both inside and out.