An Artistic Eye On The Scottish City Of Glasgow

Glasgow is Scotland's largest, and most vibrant, city with wonderful opportunities for shopping and an incredible night scene. For the more bohemian tourist there are countless places to sit and relax in the West End which features boutiques, cafés, bars, tea rooms, clubs and restaurants as well as some excellent Glasgow bed and breakfast. In the following article I will give details of three Glasgow tourist attractions which will be of special interest to those folk who have an interest in all things artistic; the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Burrell Collection and the House For An Art Lover:

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 found at Pollok Country Park which is found in the south of the city This beautiful collection of works of art consists of more than nine thousand items. The collection is incredibly diverse containing a selection of modern sculptures and even some Islamic art. Visitors can view works of art by the likes of Degas, Cezanne and other European artists. As well as sculptures and paintings one can enjoy the beautiful collections of English furniture, stained glass, tapestries and alabasters. On top of all this, the Burrell Collection also exhibits a most important collection of medieval art plus collections from ancient China and Egypt.

The House For An Art Lover

House For An Art Lover is one of the most popular visitor attractions in Glasgow. The house is of an Art Nouveau design designed, originally, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (with the help of his wife), Glasgow's most famous architect.

Originally the design was made for a competition of 1901 to create plans for a 'House for an Art Lover', however, the entry by Charles and his wife was disqualified from the competition on the grounds that it was submitted too late. Luckily, more than 100 years later the house stands completed 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 again in nineteen ninety four due to a collaboration between the Glasgow City Council and Glasgow School of Art.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

The Kelvingrove Art Gallery is Glasgow and Scotland's premier museum and art gallery, and it houses 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 can be found on the banks of the River Kelvin,  in the West End of Glasgow, on Argyle Street. The gallery was built in a Spanish Baroque style following the Glaswegian tradition of using red sandstone. It was designed by E.J. Milner Allen and Sir John W. Simpson and first opened to the public in the year nineteen hundred and one. The museum's collections originally came from the old Kelvingrove House Museum and the McLellan Galleries.

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