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Glasgow is the largest, and most lively, city in Scotland with excellent opportunities for shopping and a highly enjoyable night scene. For the more artistic visitor there are countless places to sit and relax in the West End which has cafés, bars, boutiques, tea rooms, clubs and restaurants as well as some upmarket Glasgow bed and breakfast. In the following article I will describe 3 attractions in Glasgow which should be of special interest to those of you who love all things artistic; the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the House For An Art Lover and the Burrell Collection:

The Burrell Collection

In 1944, The Burrel Collection was gifted to the city of Glasgow by Sir william and Lady Burrell and the collection can be viewed at Pollok Country Park in the south of the city This astounding collection of art works is made up of over 9 thousand items. The collection is very diverse containing a selection of modern art sculptures and a superb collection of Islamic art. You will find works of art by artists such as Degas and Cezanne. Besides sculptures and paintings visitors can enjoy the beautiful collection of alabasters, stained glass, tapestries and English furniture. On top of all this, the Burrell Collection also has an incredibly important collection of art from the medieval period and collections from ancient China and Egypt.

House For An Art Lover

The House For An Art Lover is one of the most popular 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.

Actually the design was an entry for a competition of 1901 to create a design for a ‘House for an Art Lover’, however, the entry by the Mackintoshs’ was disqualified from the competition because it was submitted late. Luckily, more than 100 years later the house is located in Bellahouston Park due to the hard work of the engineer Graham Roxburgh and architect Professor Andy Macmillan. Construction started in the year nineteen eighty nine, stopped for a short time but restarted in nineteen ninety four thanks to the collaboration between the Glasgow City Council and Glasgow School of Art.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

One of Scotland’s finest museums and art galleries, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery is where you will find one of the greatest civic art collections in Europe, but also it has been voted one of the most popular free to enter tourist attractions to be found in Scotland.

You will find Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on the banks of the River Kelvin, on Argyle Street, in the West End of Glasgow. The gallery was built in a Spanish Baroque styleusing the traditional Glaswegian material of red sandstone. The gallery was designed by Sir John W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen and opened its doors to the public for the first time in 1901. The collections in the museum were originally from the McLellan Galleries and the old Kelvingrove House Museum.

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