Joe Biden and other world leaders will head to Kelvingrove Museum tonight for a COP26 reception hosted by Prince Charles on behalf of the Royal Family.
The "VVIP" event will take place in the Victorian splendour of the iconic attraction's main hall and is strictly off limits to the public and other conference delegates.
A temporary ring of steel has been erected around the museum and several West End streets are closed to traffic, including parts of Dumbarton Road and Kelvin Way.
The reception marks the end of the first day of the leader's summit, which saw French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau all head to the SEC in Glasgow.
They heard opening speeches from Boris Johnson and David Attenborough on the importance of limiting rising temperatures to just 1.5 degrees.
Demonstrators are expected to try and gather as close to Kelvingrove as they are allowed, with hundreds of police officers already guarding the vicinity of the museum.
Cat Scothorne, of the Glasgow Against Polluters activist group, said: "How dare these world leaders have a fancy dinner on the first night of COP26, as if they have something to be proud of.
"The continued support of the fossil fuel industry by the heads of state, particularly in the global North, is killing millions of people.
"The consequences of climate change are faced by people not in power, but those mainly in the global South and people on sites where extraction occurs, yet the perpetrators sit in luxury, insulated from it all."
Joe Biden’s Air Force One touched down in Scotland earlier today – one of two aircraft the US President’s entourage uses to travel around the world.
The French Cotam 001, Canadian Air Force VIP, German Konrad Adenauer, Japanese Air Force One, Air India One and Israeli Wing of Zion are just a few of the others that arrived for the summit.
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