Glasgow is Scotland’s largest, and most lively, city with excellent shopping opportunities and an incredible nightlife. For the more bohemian visitor there are countless places to visit in the West End which features boutiques, bars, tea rooms, cafés, restaurants and clubs as well as some excellent Glasgow bed and breakfast accommodation. In the article below I will introduce three visitor attractions in Glasgow which should be of interest to those people who have an interest in the world of 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 found in the south of Glasgow This beautiful collection of art works is made up of over 9,000 items of art. The collection is incredibly diverse containing a selection of modern artistic sculptures plus a collection of Islamic art. You will find paintings by Degas and Cezanne. As well as paintings and sculptures one can enjoy the incredibly beautiful collections of stained glass, tapestries, English furniture and alabasters. As well as all this, the Burrell Collection also displays an immensely important collection of medieval art plus collections from ancient China and Egypt.

House For An Art Lover

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

Actually the design was created for a 1901 competition to make plans for a ‘House for an Art Lover’, however, the entry by Charles and his wife was disqualified on the grounds that it was submitted after the closing date. Luckily, more than one hundred years later the house is found in Bellahouston Park due to the efforts of the architect Professor Andy Macmillan and the engineer Graham Roxburgh. Construction started in 1989, halted for a short amount of time but restarted in nineteen ninety four thanks to a collaboration between the Glasgow School of Art and the Glasgow City Council.

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 is one of the most popular free tourist attractions to be found in Scotland.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum can be found in the West End of Glasgow, on the banks of the River Kelvin, on Argyle Street. The gallery was built using the traditional Glaswegian material of red sandstone in a Spanish Baroque style. The gallery was designed by E.J. Milner Allen and Sir John W. Simpson and opened its doors to the public for the first time in nineteen hundred and one. The collections of the museum were originally from the McLellan Galleries and the old Kelvingrove House Museum.

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