University of Glasgow and Hunterian
Museum
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University of Glasgow and
Hunterian Museum are 2 miles northwest
of George Square, Postcode: G12 8QQ, Free to
visit.
The University is on the Tour Bus route next to the
Kelvingrove Museum.
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The inexpensive Bus 77 runs regular between
Buchanan Bus
Station in the city centre and Kelvingrove
Museum. Ideal if spending a day in the west end
for the Kelvingrove Museum, University
Museums, and Botanic Gardens.
If walking out best to go straight out
Sauchiehall Street and view the Attractions
there as well, on this List
with Phone Maps for a guide.
The Museums in the University buildings are
the Hunterian Museum, Hunterian Art Gallery,
Mackintosh House, and the Zoology Museum.
The Hunterian Museum is Scotland's oldest
public Museum with displays such as: Scottish
mineral treasures, dinosaurs, fossils, world
culture, and much more.
The image top right was taken from the
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum car
park.
The Hunterian Art Gallery, has a wide range
of Masterpieces by Rembrandt, Rubens, Chardin,
Whistler, and Stubbs, alongside major examples
of Scottish art, including the Scottish
Colourists, and Glasgow Boys.
The Mackintosh House, is the reassembled
principal interiors from the Glasgow home of
Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
The Zoology Museum, features displays
showing the amazing diversity of the animal
kingdom.
The Unversity of Glasgow was founded in 1451
by Bishop William Turnbull, with the first
classes taken in the Glasgow Cathedral
buildings. This is the second oldest University
in Scotland, after St Andrews.
The University buildings expanded over the
following centuries into a huge complex next to
Glasgow Cathedral. This present University of
Glasgow building, on the west side of Glasgow,
was completed in 1870. Nothing of the Old
University remains.
The University of Glasgow has scenic garden
walks, with statues of Lord Kelvin, Glasgow's greatest
scientist, and Joseph Lister, a top British surgeon,
and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. Image of
the Kelvin and Lister statues.
Next to the University of Glasgow, is the
Kelvingrove Art Gallery &
Museum, the scenic Kelvingrove Park,
and sitting high above the park, is Park
Terrace and Park Circus, an area of Glasgow
modeled on the architecture of Bath.
You can walk up to Park Circus through the
Park.
The Botanic Gardens are a half mile
walk northwest of the University, at the top of
Byres Road, the main street in the West
End.
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