Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland with excellent shopping opportunities and a highly enjoyable nightlife. For the more bohemian visitor there are numerous places to visit in Glasgow’s West End which features cafés, bars, boutiques, tea rooms, restaurants and clubs as well as some upmarket Glasgow bed and breakfast. In the article below I will describe three attractions in Glasgow which should be of interest to those visitors who have an interest in the artistic world; the Burrell Collection, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the House For An Art Lover:

The Burrell Collection

The Burrell Collection was given by Sir William and Lady Burrell to the city of Glasgow in 1944 and the collection is located in Pollok Country Park which is located in the south of Glasgow This magnificent collection of works of art consists of more than 9 thousand items. The collection is incredibly diverse containing a selection of modern sculptures as well as an Islamic art collection. Visitors can view paintings by the likes of Cezanne and Degas. As well as sculptures and paintings you can enjoy the beautiful collections of stained glass, tapestries, English furniture and alabasters. On top of all this, the Burrell Collection also contains an immensely important selection of art from medieval times and collections from ancient Chine & Egypt.

The House For An Art Lover

House For An Art Lover is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Glasgow. The Art Nouveau House was originally designed by Glasgow’s most famous architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh who was aided by his talented wife, Margaret Macdonald.

Originally the design was made for a 1901 competition to create plans for a ‘House for an Art Lover’, but, the entry by the Mackintoshs’ was disqualified on the grounds that it was submitted late. Luckily, over 100 years later the house stands in Bellahouston Park thanks to the efforts and hard work of the architect Professor Andy Macmillan and the engineer Graham Roxburgh. Construction started in the year nineteen eighty nine, stopped for a short amount of time but restarted in nineteen ninety four thanks to the collaboration between the Glasgow School of Art and the Glasgow City Council.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

The Kelvingrove Art Gallery is home to one of Europe’s great civic art collections and one of Glasgow’s, and Scotland’s premier museums and art galleries, but also it has been voted one of the most popular free tourist attractions in Scotland.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is located on Argyle Street, on the banks of the River Kelvin, in the West End of Glasgow. The gallery was constructed following the Glaswegian tradition of using red sandstone in a Spanish Baroque style. The building was designed by E.J. Milner Allen and Sir John W. Simpson and first opened its doors in nineteen hundred and one. The collections of the museum originally came from the McLellan Galleries and the old Kelvingrove House Museum in Kelvingrove Park.

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