Glasgow is Scotland's largest, and most vibrant, city with excellent opportunities for shopping plus a highly enjoyable night scene. For the more bohemian visitor there are numerous places to go especially in the West End which has bars, boutiques, cafés, tea rooms, restaurants and clubs as well as some superb Glasgow bed and breakfast. In the article below I will discuss three attractions in Glasgow which should be of interest to those folk who have an interest in art; the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the House For An Art Lover and the Burrell Collection:

The Burrell Collection

Sir william Burrell and his wife gifted the Burrel Collection to the city of Glasgow in 1944 and the collection can be found at Pollok Country Park in the south of the city This beautiful collection of works of art is made up of over 9,000 items. The collection is very diverse containing some modern sculptures and even some Islamic art. Visitors can view paintings by Degas and Cezanne. Besides sculptures and paintings you is able to enjoy the incredibly beautiful collection of tapestries, English furniture, stained glass and alabasters. As well as all this, the Burrell Collection also exhibits a very important collection of medieval art and collections from ancient Egypt and China.

House For An Art Lover

House For An Art Lover is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Glasgow. This incredible Art Nouveau house was designed, originally, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (with the help of Margaret Macdonald, his wife), Glasgow's most famous architect.

Originally the design was created for a 1901 competition to draw up a design for a 'House for an Art Lover', but, the entry from Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife was disqualified because it was submitted late. Luckily, over one hundred years later the house stands in Bellahouston Park thanks to the efforts of the architect Professor Andy Macmillan and the engineer Graham Roxburgh. Building commenced in nineteen eighty nine, halted for a short amount of time but started again in nineteen ninety four due to the collaboration between the Glasgow City Council and Glasgow School of Art.

The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

The Kelvingrove Art Gallery is Glasgow and Scotland's premier museum and art gallery, and home to one of Europe's great civic art collections, but also it is one of Scotland's most popular free to enter attractions.

You will discover Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the West End of Glasgow, on Argyle Street, on the banks of the River Kelvin. The gallery was built in a Spanish Baroque styleusing the traditional Glaswegian material of 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 the year nineteen hundred and one. The collections in the museum originally came from the McLellan Galleries and the old Kelvingrove House Museum.

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