A Brief Guide To The City Of Glasgow From An Art Lovers Perspective And Worthwhile Visitor Attractions to Visit
Glasgow is Scotland’s largest, and most vibrant, city with superb shopping opportunities and an incredible night scene. For the more artistic visitor there are countless places to go in the West End of Glasgow which features tea rooms, boutiques, bars, caf?s, clubs and restaurants as well as some interesting bed and breakfast in Glasgow. In the article below I will give details of three Glasgow visitor attractions which will be especially interesting to those people who enjoy all things artistic; the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the House For An Art Lover and the Burrell Collection:
Burrell Collection
The Burrell Collection was given by Sir William and Lady Burrell to the city of Glasgow in 1944 and the collection is located in Pollok Country Park which is in the south of Glasgow This astounding collection of works of art is made up of more than nine thousand pieces of art. The collection is very cosmopolitan containing a selection of modern sculptures and even some Islamic art. You will find paintings by a variety of artists including Degas, Cezanne and other European artists. Besides sculptures and paintings one can enjoy the incredibly beautiful collection of tapestries, alabasters, stained glass and English furniture. As well as all this, the Burrell Collection also contains a most important selection of art from medieval times and collections from ancient Egypt and China.
The 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 designed, originally, by Glasgow’s most famous architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh plus input from his incredibly talented wife, Margaret Macdonald.
Originally the design was made for a 1901 competition to draw up a design for a ‘House for an Art Lover’, but, the entry from the Mackintoshs’ was disqualified on the grounds that it was submitted late. Luckily, more than 100 years later the house is located in Bellahouston Park due to the efforts and hard work of the architect Professor Andy Macmillan and the engineer Graham Roxburgh. Building started in 1989, stopped for a short time but resumed in 1994 due to the 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 attractions to be found in Scotland.
You will discover Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the West End of Glasgow, on the banks of the River Kelvin, on Argyle Street. The gallery was constructed following the Glaswegian tradition of using red sandstone in a Spanish Baroque style. The gallery was followed the designs of E.J. Milner Allen and Sir John W. Simpson and first opened to the public in nineteen hundred and one. The museum’s collections originally came from the old Kelvingrove House Museum and the McLellan Galleries.
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