Mark O Neill, former head of Glasgow Museums, led the Kelvingrove refurbishment project Mr O’Neill, who led the hugely successful Kelvingrove refurbishment programme which saw it reopen its doors in 2006 after a three year closure, said: “The question is are you choosing between museums or medical operations and improving schools. “Would it be reasonable to say, could we do without all these museums? The question then is, when you have educated the children and carried out operations, what kind of a place do people want to live in? If it is an emergency, you have to spend on saving lives, but if thinking long term you have to look at society as a whole.