Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland with exciting shopping opportunities and an amazing night scene. For the more artistic visitor there are countless places to visit especially in the West End which features cafés, bars, tea rooms, boutiques, clubs and restaurants as well as some upmarket bed and breakfast in Glasgow. In the following article I will describe three tourist attractions in Glasgow which will be of interest to those folk who love art; the House For An Art Lover, the Burrell Collection and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum:

Burrell Collection

Sir william Burrell and his wife gifted the Burrel Collection to the city of Glasgow in 1944 and the collection can be viewed at Pollok Country Park in the south of the city This beautiful collection of art works includes more than nine thousand pieces of art. The collection is incredibly diverse containing some modern art sculptures and a superb collection of Islamic art. Visitors are able to see paintings by artists such as Cezanne and Degas. Besides sculptures and paintings visitors can enjoy the incredibly beautiful collections of stained glass, tapestries, alabasters and English furniture. As well as all this, the Burrell Collection also displays an immensely important collection of art from medieval times and collections from ancient Egypt & China.

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 originally designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow’s most famous architect, with the help of his wife.

In actual fact the design was an entry for a 1901 competition to make a design for a ‘House for an Art Lover’, however, the entry from Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife was disqualified because of late submission. Fortunately, over one hundred years later the house is found in Bellahouston Park thanks to the hard work of the architect Professor Andy Macmillan and the engineer Graham Roxburgh. Building began in 1989, halted for a short amount of time but resumed 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 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 is one of the most popular free to enter visitor attractions to be found in Scotland.

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 built in a Spanish Baroque style using the traditional red sandstone. It was designed by Sir John W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen and first opened its doors to the public in nineteen hundred and one. The museum’s collections originally came from the old Kelvingrove House Museum in Kelvingrove Park and the McLellan Galleries.

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