posted by Vacation Home Rentals on May 30
Glasgow is the largest, and most vibrant, city in Scotland with excellent opportunities for shopping plus a highly enjoyable night scene. For the more bohemian tourist there are countless places to visit in the West End which features tea rooms, bars, cafés, boutiques, restaurants and clubs as well as some excellent Glasgow bed and breakfast. In the article below I will describe three Glasgow visitor attractions which will be of interest to those people who enjoy art; the House For An Art Lover, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the Burrell Collection:
The Burrell Collection
The Burrell Collection was given by Sir William and Lady Burrell to the city of Glasgow in 1944 and the collection can be viewed at Pollok Country Park in the south of the city This magnificent collection of art works is made up of more than 9,000 pieces of art. The collection is incredibly cosmopolitan containing some modern sculptures as well as an Islamic art collection. You will find paintings by Degas and Cezanne. Besides paintings and sculptures you is able to enjoy the stunning collections of stained glass, tapestries, English furniture and alabasters. On top of all this, the Burrell Collection also contains an incredibly important collection of art from the medieval period plus collections from ancient China and Egypt.
House For An Art Lover
The House For An Art Lover is one of the most popular attractions in Glasgow. This incredible Art Nouveau house was designed, originally, by Glasgow’s most famous architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh with some assistance from Margaret Macdonald, his talented wife.
Actually the design was made for a 1901 competition to draw up plans for a ‘House for an Art Lover’, but, the entry from Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife was disqualified because it was submitted too late. Luckily, more than 100 years later the house is located in Bellahouston Park thanks to the efforts of the engineer Graham Roxburgh and architect Professor Andy Macmillan. Construction started in nineteen eighty nine, halted for a short time but restarted 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 home to one of Europe’s great civic art collections, but also it is one of Scotland’s most popular free to enter tourist attractions.
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is sited in the West End of Glasgow, on the banks of the River Kelvin, on Argyle Street. The gallery was constructed using the traditional red sandstone in a Spanish Baroque style. The gallery was designed by E.J. Milner Allen and Sir John W. Simpson and opened its doors to the public in 1901. The museum’s collections were originally from the McLellan Galleries and the old Kelvingrove House Museum.
If you are thinking about having a short vacation in Glasgow, Scotland you will find plenty of online hotels and guest houses providing bed and breakfast in Glasgow. You will discover a huge listing of Glasgow hotel accommodation at http://www.glasgowhotelscotland.com/
