Glasgow is the largest, and most vibrant, city in Scotland with excellent opportunities for shopping and an amazing night scene. For the more artistic tourist there are countless places to visit especially in the West End which has tea rooms, bars, boutiques, cafés, clubs and restaurants as well as some upmarket bed and breakfast in Glasgow. In the article below I will give details of three attractions in Glasgow which should be of special interest to those who have an interest in art; the Burrell Collection, the House For An Art Lover and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum:

Burrell Collection

Sir William and Lady Burrel gifted The Burrel Collection to the city of Glasgow, in 1944 and the collection can be found at Pollok Country Park which is located in the south of the city of Glasgow This magnificent collection of art works is made up of over 9,000 pieces of art. The collection is very diverse containing a selection of modern artistic sculptures plus a collection of Islamic art. There are paintings by Cezanne and Degas. Besides paintings and sculptures you can enjoy the beautiful collection of alabasters, English furniture, stained glass and tapestries. As well as all this, the Burrell Collection also contains a very important selection of art from the medieval period and collections from ancient Egypt and China.

House For An Art Lover

The House For An Art Lover is one of Glasgow’s most popular visitor attractions. The Art Nouveau House was originally designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow’s most famous architect, with the help of his wife.

In actual fact the design was an entry for a 1901 competition to make a design for a ‘House for an Art Lover’, however, the Mackintoshs’ entry was disqualified from the competition because it was submitted late. Luckily, more than one hundred years later the house stands completed in Bellahouston Park because of the efforts and hard work of the engineer Graham Roxburgh and architect Professor Andy Macmillan. Building commenced in the year nineteen eighty nine, ceased for a short time but resumed in nineteen ninety four due to a collaboration between the Glasgow City Council and Glasgow School of Art.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

The Kelvingrove Art Gallery is one of Scotland’s finest museums and art galleries and where you will find one of the greatest civic art collections in Europe, but also it has been voted one of the most popular free to enter tourist attractions to be found in Scotland.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is situated on Argyle Street, on the banks of the River Kelvin, in the West End of Glasgow. The gallery was built in a Spanish Baroque style using the traditional red sandstone. The gallery was followed the designs of Sir John W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen and first opened to the public in 1901. The collections of the museum were originally from the McLellan Galleries and the old Kelvingrove House Museum.

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