Glasgow is the largest, and most lively, city in Scotland with exciting opportunities for shopping and an incredible night scene. For the more artistic visitor there are many places to visit in Glasgow’s West End which features tea rooms, boutiques, cafés, bars, clubs and restaurants as well as some superb Glasgow bed and breakfast accommodation. In the article which follows I will introduce 3 Glasgow tourist attractions which should be especially interesting to those of you who enjoy 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 which is in the south of the city of Glasgow This beautiful collection of art works consists of more than 9 thousand pieces of art. The collection is very cosmopolitan containing a selection of modern sculptures as well as an Islamic art collection. Visitors are able to see paintings by a variety of artists including Degas, Cezanne and other European artists. Besides sculptures and paintings visitors is able to enjoy the spectacular collection of stained glass, tapestries, alabasters and English furniture. On top of all this, the Burrell Collection also exhibits an incredibly important collection of medieval art and collections from ancient Egypt and China.

The House For An Art Lover

House For An Art Lover is one of Glasgow’s most popular visitor attractions. The house is of an Art Nouveau design originally designed by Glasgow’s most famous architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh who was aided by his talented wife.

In actual fact the design was created for a competition of 1901 to draw up plans for a ‘House for an Art Lover’, but, the entry from Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife was disqualified from the competition because of late submission. Fortunately, more than one hundred years later the house stands in Bellahouston Park because of the efforts of the architect Professor Andy Macmillan and the engineer Graham Roxburgh. Construction started in the year nineteen eighty nine, ceased for a short time but started again in 1994 thanks to a collaboration between the Glasgow School of Art and the Glasgow City Council.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

One of Glasgow and Scotland’s premier museums and art galleries, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery is home to one of Europe’s great civic art collections, but also it has been voted one of the most popular free to enter visitor attractions in Scotland.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is sited in the West End of Glasgow, on the banks of the River Kelvin, on Argyle Street. The gallery was constructed using the traditional Glaswegian material of red sandstone in a Spanish Baroque style. The building was designed by Sir John W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen and opened to the public for the first time in the year nineteen hundred and one. The collections of the museum were originally from the McLellan Galleries and the old Kelvingrove House Museum in Kelvingrove Park.

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