Little Cafe near Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery in Glasgow

Having had a fab lunch at Ox and Finch (this is a follow up from my previous blog), Emily and I went to visit Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery for a bit of culture in the afternoon.

We walked back Sauchiehall Street, passing the snow-covered bowling green with University of Glasgow and the Museum and Art Gallery in the background. What a beautiful afternoon it was. When the food (at Ox and Finch) was so good, it did make us feel so good too.

Glasgow University (right) and Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery (left)

As we were walking toward the Museum, we discussed what we actually wanted to see at the Museum for a bit of culture. We both said, "Those floating heads!" We were actually talking about a series of white heads, suspended from the ceiling in the area dedicated to Expression, depicting a number of human facial expressions as we just wanted to take photos.  Emily declared, "I want to see the big elephant too!"

Floating heads and elephant, sounds like a great plan, maybe not much of a culture but off we went.

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery

When we arrived, we also learned they were having an exhibition of Scottish writer Alistair Gray's art work. Ok, since we are here, why not see that too for a bit of culture.

We went through the South entrance to enter the building. As soon as we were inside, we saw the massive pipe organ by Lewis & Co, the centrepiece of the central hall. Unfortunately we had just missed the pipe organ mini concert at 1pm. 

Our plan was to cover the whole ground floor exhibition first before we search for Floating Heads, however as soon as we had a glance of them, we went the area straight away for lots of photo opportunities. 

The lighting from ground below, changing colours from purple to pink to white to yellow, giving an interest effects on floating heads and the ceiling above, whilst contrasting the traditional displays below against contemporary floating heads above. Very interesting ....

We then went upstairs, enjoyed the changes of colours of floating heads and their surrounding ambience. And more photos from the upper level.

I posted this on Instagram for my sister in Japan to see.
She did not like it.... I think she thought they were eerie...

We spent far too much on taking photos of these floating heads and almost forgot to see Salvador Dali's surrealist religious masterpiece Christ of Saint John of the Cross.

We then went downstairs to see the Museum's popular resident, Sir Roger, the life-size elephant that Emily wanted to see.  I asked Emily if she wanted her picture taken with him but she said no.

We then went down to the lower level floor to see Alistair Gray's artwork. The exhibition will run until 22 February 2015 and is £5.00 for entry.  We did not know much about him or his art work so it was interesting and it was a bit of culture for us indeed.

After this, it was time for a nice cup of tea or coffee. Unfortunately museum's cafe downstairs was too full with people cueing to get in, so we decided to go outside. As we were leaving, we saw Elvis.

"Thank you very much for visiting!"

We crossed the road and found this cafe named Little Cafe at 1361 Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8AF.

On the window, it says Suki Tea - Proper Tea Sold Here!  Yes, I shall try that.

We asked the staff what flavours they got. He explained the list of flavours they got and let us smell some of leaves to help us choose. Emily decided to try apple and mint whilst I chose green tea with ginseng.  Emily also ordered a slice of Salted Chocolate Brownie, which turned out to be a really yummy and chewing delicious dessert.

My green tea with ginseng was really refreshing, soothing and relaxing.

Green tea with gingseng 

Emly's apple and mint tea smelt really delicious. She really enjoyed this tea so much she has just ordered some on-line through Amazon.

Having checked some reviews on Tripadvisor, they have quite good reviews, apparently their home-made pizza is very good.  The service at the cafe was also good and friendly too.

Well, we really had a great day in Glasgow - we had a fantastic lunch at Ox and Finch, an interesting afternoon with a bit of culture at Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery, and then a lovely Suki Tea at Little Cafe.  We were then off to a Chinese supermarket to buy some Japanese food for dinner as we were thinking about having Okonomi-Yaki (see my earlier blog about Okonomi-yaki in Osaka!). 

Always thinking about foods, of course!

That's all forks!