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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Argyle St.
}0141 276 9599; www.glasgowmuseums.com
Built to be a museum and opened in 1901, the gallery is a beautiful red brick structure that looks more like a cathedral…
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Hunterian Museum
Gilbert Scott Building
}0141 330 4221; www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk
Founded in 1807 to display the collections of William Hunter, prominent physician and Scotland’s foremost collector of w…
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Glasgow Cathedral and Necropolis
Castle St.
}0141 552 6891; www.historic-scotland.gob.uk
A Glasgow must-see, the cathedral is just as stony, gothic and impressive as the castles from your adventure books growi…
St. Mungo’s Museum
2 Castle St.
}0141 276 1625; glasgowmuseums.com
St. Mungo’s offers a small exhibit of religious artifacts from all over the world, including Catholic stained glass, Gre…
Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art
Royal Exchange Sq.
}0141 287 3050; www.glasgowmuseums.com
The GOMA, four stories of rotating exhibitions of the most modern (and often the most confusing) works from both Glasweg…
St. George’s Square
City Center
An enormous, red-paved, statue-filled plaza in the center of town, St. George’s Square is lined with wooden benches wher…
Glasgow City Chambers
82 George Sq.
}0141 287 4018; www.glasgow.co.uk
Opened in 1888, the Glasgow City Chambers beats out St. Peter’s in Vatican City for largest marble staircase by one flig…
Glasgow Botanic Gardens
West End
}www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/residents/parks_outdoors
With lots of lawn space for laying out, if and when it’s ever sunny, and public greenhouses where you can examine all so…
University of Glasgow
Glasgow University, University Ave., Gilbert Scott building
}0141 330 5511; www.gla.ac.uk
You’ll see the heavily Gothic hollowed spire from a distance, but head to University Drive and the visitor’s center to p…
Glasgow School of Art
167 Renfrew St.
}0141 353 4530; www.gsa.ac.uk
The masterwork of famous Scottish architect Charles Rennie Macintosh, the GSA is a labyrthine edifice of concrete, sculp…