Glasgow is the largest, and most lively, city in Scotland with wonderful shopping plus an incredible nightlife. For the more bohemian visitor there are many places to visit especially in the West End which features boutiques, cafés, tea rooms, bars, restaurants and clubs as well as some upmarket Glasgow bed and breakfast. In the article which follows I will discuss three attractions in Glasgow which should be especially interesting to those folk who enjoy all things artistic; the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Burrell Collection and the House For An Art Lover:

The Burrell Collection

Sir william Burrell and his wife gifted the Burrel Collection to the city of Glasgow in 1944 and the collection can be found at Pollok Country Park in the south of the city This beautiful collection of works of art includes more than nine thousand pieces of art. The collection is incredibly cosmopolitan containing a selection of modern sculptures as well as an Islamic art collection. There are works of art by Degas, Cezanne and other European artists. As well as paintings and sculptures visitors can enjoy the spectacular collections of English furniture, tapestries, alabasters and stained glass. As well as all this, the Burrell Collection also exhibits a very important selection of medieval art and collections from ancient China and Egypt.

House For An Art Lover

The House For An Art Lover is one of Glasgow’s most popular tourist attractions. The Art Nouveau House was 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 create a design 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 after the closing date. Luckily, over one hundred years later the house stands in Bellahouston Park due to the efforts of the architect Professor Andy Macmillan and the engineer Graham Roxburgh. Building commenced in the year nineteen eighty nine, stopped for a short amount of time but resumed again in nineteen ninety four thanks to a collaboration between the Glasgow City Council and Glasgow School of Art.

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 on the banks of the River Kelvin,  in the West End of Glasgow, on Argyle Street. The gallery was constructed in a Spanish Baroque style using the traditional red sandstone. The building was followed the designs of E.J. Milner Allen and Sir John W. Simpson and opened 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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