A Quick Guide To The Scottish City Of Glasgow From An Art Lovers Perspective
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Glasgow is Scotland’s largest city with excellent shopping opportunities and a highly enjoyable nightlife. For the more bohemian visitor there are countless places to visit in the West End which has cafés, tea rooms, bars, boutiques, restaurants and clubs as well as some superb Glasgow bed and breakfast accommodation. In the article below I will discuss three Glasgow tourist attractions which should be of special interest to those who have an interest in all things artistic; the House For An Art Lover, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the Burrell Collection:
The Burrell Collection
Sir William and Lady Burrel gifted The Burrel Collection to the city of Glasgow, in 1944 and the collection can be viewed at Pollok Country Park which is located in the south of Glasgow This beautiful collection of art works consists of more than nine thousand items. The collection is very diverse containing a selection of modern artistic sculptures plus a collection of Islamic art. Visitors can view paintings by a variety of artists including Degas, Cezanne and other European artists. As well as sculptures and paintings one is able to enjoy the beautiful collection of English furniture, stained glass, tapestries and alabasters. On top of all this, the Burrell Collection also has a most important selection of medieval art plus collections from ancient Chine & Egypt.
House For An Art Lover
House For An Art Lover is one of Glasgow’s most popular attractions. The Art Nouveau House was originally designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (with the help of Margaret Macdonald, his wife), Glasgow’s most famous architect.
In actual fact the design was an entry for a 1901 competition to create plans for a ‘House for an Art Lover’, however, the entry by Charles and his wife was disqualified on the grounds of late submission. Luckily, more than one hundred years later the house is located in Bellahouston Park thanks to the hard work of the engineer Graham Roxburgh and architect Professor Andy Macmillan. Construction started in the year nineteen eighty nine, halted for a short time but started again in 1994 thanks to the collaboration between the Glasgow School of Art and the Glasgow City Council.
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 has been voted one of the most popular free to enter visitor attractions in Scotland.
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is located in the West End of Glasgow, on Argyle Street, on the banks of the River Kelvin. The gallery was built in a Spanish Baroque style using the traditional red sandstone. The gallery was followed the designs of Sir John W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen and first opened to the public in nineteen hundred and one. The museum’s collections were originally from the McLellan Galleries and the old Kelvingrove House Museum in Kelvingrove Park.
If you are considering a short vacation in the Scottish city of Glasgow you will discover plenty of online hotels and guest houses providing Glasgow bed and breakfast. You will find a comprehensive listing of hotel accommodation in Glasgow at http://www.glasgowhotelscotland.com/
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