Glasgow is Scotland's largest city with exciting shopping opportunities plus a highly enjoyable nightlife. For the more artistic tourist there are countless places to visit especially in the West End which features bars, cafés, boutiques, tea rooms, clubs and restaurants as well as some upmarket Glasgow bed and breakfast accommodation. In the article below I will introduce 3 Glasgow visitor attractions which will be of interest to those visitors who enjoy all things artistic; the Burrell Collection, the House For An Art Lover and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum:
Burrell Collection
In 1944 The Brurrel Collection was gifted, by Sir william and Lady Burrell, to the city of Glasgow and the collection can be viewed at Pollok Country Park which is in the south of Glasgow This astounding collection of works of art includes more than nine thousand items of art. The collection is very diverse containing some modern sculptures as well as an Islamic art collection. Visitors can view paintings by Degas, Cezanne and other European artists. As well as sculptures and paintings visitors is able to enjoy the incredibly beautiful collection of alabasters, English furniture, stained glass and tapestries. On top of all this, the Burrell Collection also has a most important collection of medieval art plus collections from ancient Chine & Egypt.
The House For An Art Lover
House For An Art Lover is one of the most popular attractions in Glasgow. The house is of an Art Nouveau design designed, originally, by Glasgow's most famous architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh with some assistance from his talented wife.
In actual fact the design was an entry for a 1901 competition to create plans for a 'House for an Art Lover', however, the Mackintoshs' entry was disqualified from the competition because of late submission. Luckily, more than one hundred years later the house is located in Bellahouston Park due to the hard work of the engineer Graham Roxburgh and architect Professor Andy Macmillan. Building began in 1989, halted for a short amount of time but restarted in 1994 due to the collaboration between the Glasgow School of Art and the Glasgow City Council.
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
One of Scotland's finest museums and art galleries, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery is where one of the greatest civic art collections in Europe is housed, but also it is one of Scotland's most popular free to enter attractions.
You will find Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on Argyle Street, on the banks of the River Kelvin, in the West End of Glasgow. The gallery was constructed in a Spanish Baroque style using the traditional red sandstone. The building was followed the designs of E.J. Milner Allen and Sir John W. Simpson and first opened its doors 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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