Peak District Tourism

Glasgow is Scotland’s largest, and most lively, city with wonderful shopping and a highly enjoyable nightlife. For the more artistic tourist there are many places to go in the West End which features bars, cafés, boutiques, tea rooms, restaurants and clubs as well as some superb Glasgow bed and breakfast accommodation. In the following article I will describe 3 Glasgow visitor attractions which should be especially interesting to those who enjoy art; the Burrell Collection, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the House For An Art Lover:

The Burrell Collection

In 1944 the city of Glasgow recieved the Burrel Collection from Sir william Burrell, and his wife, as a gift and the collection is located in Pollok Country Park which is in the south of the city This magnificent collection of art works is made up of over 9,000 pieces. The collection is very diverse containing a selection of modern art sculptures and a superb collection of Islamic art. Visitors are able to see works of art by the likes of Cezanne and Degas. Besides paintings and sculptures one is able to enjoy the incredibly beautiful collection of tapestries, alabasters, English furniture and stained glass. On top of all this, the Burrell Collection also exhibits an immensely important collection of art from medieval times plus collections from ancient Chine & Egypt.

House For An Art Lover

House For An Art Lover is one of the most popular visitor attractions in Glasgow. This incredible Art Nouveau house was originally designed by Glasgow’s most famous architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh who was aided by Margaret Macdonald, his talented wife.

In actual fact the design was created for a 1901 competition to make plans for a ‘House for an Art Lover’, however, the entry from the Mackintoshs’ was disqualified because of late submission. Luckily, over 100 years later the house is located in Bellahouston Park because of the efforts and hard work of the engineer Graham Roxburgh and architect Professor Andy Macmillan. Building began in 1989, stopped for a short amount of time but restarted in nineteen ninety four due to the collaboration between the Glasgow School of Art and the Glasgow City Council.

The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

One of Scotland’s finest museums and art galleries, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery is where one of the greatest civic art collections in Europe is housed, but also it is one of Scotland’s most popular free tourist attractions.

You will find Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the West End of Glasgow, on Argyle Street, on the banks of the River Kelvin. The gallery was constructed following the Glaswegian tradition of using red sandstone in a Spanish Baroque style. The building was followed the designs of Sir John W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen and opened its doors in the year nineteen hundred and one. The museum’s collections were originally from the old Kelvingrove House Museum and the McLellan Galleries.

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