Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

On the ground floor of Kelvingrove hangs a Christ few people expected a city gallery to own: Salvador Dalí's Christ of Saint John of the Cross, painted in 1951. The crucified figure floats in a dark sky above a calm bay, seen steeply from above, with no nails, no blood and no crown of thorns. Glasgow bought it in 1952 for £8,200, a sum that outraged local art students who thought the money should have gone to living painters. In 1961 a visitor tore the canvas and it was carefully repaired, and today it draws people who come for that one painting.

The building around it is worth its own look. It opened in 1901 in warm red sandstone, its towers modelled loosely on Spanish churches, and a stubborn local legend insists it was put up back to front and that the architect leapt from a tower in despair. He did not; the design simply faces the park rather than the road.

Beyond the Dalí, Kelvingrove mixes art and natural history under one roof, from the Glasgow Boys and Dutch Old Masters to a Spitfire hung overhead, and it has stayed free to enter.