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Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland with exciting shopping plus an incredible nightlife. For the more bohemian visitor there are numerous places to go especially in the West End which has boutiques, bars, tea rooms, cafés, restaurants and clubs as well as some upmarket Glasgow bed and breakfast. In the following article I will give details of 3 attractions in Glasgow which will be of interest to those visitors who have an interest in all things artistic; the Burrell Collection, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the House For An Art Lover:

The 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 in the south of Glasgow This magnificent collection of works of art includes more than 9 thousand pieces of art. The collection is very diverse containing some modern art sculptures and a superb collection of Islamic art. There are paintings by Degas, Cezanne and other European artists. As well as sculptures and paintings one can enjoy the beautiful collection of alabasters, English furniture, stained glass and tapestries. On top of all this, the Burrell Collection also contains an immensely 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 Glasgow’s most popular visitor attractions. This incredible 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).

Originally the design was made for a 1901 competition to make a design for a ‘House for an Art Lover’, but, the entry by Charles and his wife was disqualified because of late submission. Fortunately, more than 100 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. Construction started in nineteen eighty nine, halted for a short time but started again 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 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 find Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on the banks of the River Kelvin,  in the West End of Glasgow, on Argyle Street. The gallery was constructed following the Glaswegian tradition of using red sandstone in a Spanish Baroque style. The building was followed the designs of E.J. Milner Allen and Sir John W. Simpson and opened for the first time in nineteen hundred and one. The collections in the museum were originally from the McLellan Galleries and the old Kelvingrove House Museum in Kelvingrove Park.

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