Located on the River Clyde and Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow offers you excellent museums, art galleries, festivals and shopping scenes that features everything from couture items to thrift-shop steals, as well as a hot live-music scene. The city has a strong shipbuilding heritage with many ocean liners being constructed on the banks of the River Clyde.
TOP 8 PLACES TO VISIT
1.THE BURRELL COLLECTION
The late millionaire Sir William Burrell donated the collection of Chinese ceramics to Rodin sculptures. The glass walls not only encase a variety of objects and artworks, but they also usher in the surrounding woodlands. After viewing the art you can wander around the surrounding of Pollok Country Park.
2.ST MUNGO CATHEDRAL
The Cathedral is the city’s most significant historic building from the 12th century. Projecting from the south transept is the Blacader Aisle named after the first bishop of Glasgow. In the grandest room in the cathedral you can see the tomb of the founder of the bishopric St Mungo who was buried here in 603 AD.
3.MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT
On displays is in the museum is the city's transportation history. One of the exhibit showcases a 1938 Glasgow street scene "with period shop-fronts, era-appropriate vehicles and a reconstruction of one of the Glasgow Underground stations while another showcase the Clyde Room's model boats.
4.GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART AND MACKINTOSH’S ART ACADEMY
This Art Nouveau building was completed in 1909 and confirmed the reputation of 28-year-old designer Charles Mackintosh, not just as a master of the exterior but also as a superb interior designer. Highlights is the grand west façade, Principal’s Room and theMackintosh Room where meetings of the Academy of Art are held; and the unique Library and Gallery.
5.KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM
The museum is the most visited in Scotland. It was built in the 20th century to resemble a Renaissance-style castle/cathedral. On exhibit are collections of European masters such as Botticelli, Monet, Mackintosh, Scottish storytelling and Scottish armory.
6.RIVERSIDE MUSEUM AND TALL SHIP
The majority of the displays are Glasgow-built and include exhibits from the city's former Transport Museum, including model ships, locomotives, trams, vintage cars and horse-drawn carriages. Other highlights is a superb reconstruction of a 1938 Glasgow street, the excellent Tall Ship, the only floating Clyde-built sailing ship in Britain and a painting by famed artist LS Lowey.
7.THE NATIONAL PIPING CENTRE AND THE BAGPIPE MUSEUM
For those with a passion for bagpipes and drummer the centre is an excellent resource. The centre is also home to the superb Museum of Piping, which includes piping memorabilia belonging to Robbie Burns and the 17th century Iain Dall MacKay chanter, the world's oldest surviving bagpipe relic. Piping and related supplies, music and mementoes are available in the well-stocked shop. The worlds largest World Pipe Band Championship is hosted every year in August at Glasgow Green.
8.GLASGOW SCIENCE CENTRE
Whether you are a science novice or a fully-fledged expert, the exhibitions on display are fascinating and exciting. Sit in a chair that will instantly shrink you, and then become a giant by simply walking through a door. Finally lie back and chill in the planetarium and watch all the billions of galaxies twinkle in the night sky. Glasgow Science Centre is fun for people of all ages and the whole family.
OTHER PLACES TO VISIT
- Pollok Country Park
- City Chambers
- The Square: The Heart of Glasgow
- Glasgow Speedway
- Glenoyne Distillery
- Barras Market
- The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
- Kibble Palace and Glasgow Botanic Gardens
- Glasgow Green and the People’s Palace
- King Tut’s Wah-Wah Hut
- Willow Tearooms
- St. Enoch Centre
- Titan Clydebank
- St. Andrew’s Cathedral
- Sharmanka Kinetic Gallery
- The Corinthian Club
- Glasgow Necropolis
- The Lighthouse, Glasgow
- Scotland Street School Museum
- Tenement House
- Holmwood House
- River Clyde
- Glasgow Central Station
- Provand’s Lordship
- Mugdock Country Park
- Glasgow Police Museum
The best way to get around is by foot. Other transport available is citybike, bus, subway, taxi and rental car.
The best time to visit Glasgow is between March and August when temperatures reach their peak and daylight hours are long.
