Burrell Collection
This collection is housed in a building opened in 1983 to display the mind-boggling treasures left to Glasgow by Sir William Burrell, a wealthy shipowner who had a lifelong passion for art collecting.
Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws Rd.. Phone: 0141/649-7151 . Open: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm. Closed Jan 1 and Dec 25. Free admission. Bus: 45, 48, or 57.

Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
The headquarters of the Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries organization, this is the finest municipal gallery in Britain. The art gallery contains a superb collection of Dutch and Italian old masters, including Giorgione and Rembrandt; French 19th-century paintings by Millet, Derain, and others; and Salvador Dalí's Christ of St. John of the Cross. Scottish painting is well represented, from the 17th century to the present. One of the major paintings here is Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black no. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, the first Whistler to be hung in a British gallery. The artist took great pride in his Scottish background.
Kelvingrove. Phone: 0141/287-2699 . Open: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm. Free admission. Underground: Kelvin Hall.

Hunterian Art Gallery
This gallery is known for owning the artistic estate of James McNeill Whistler, with some 60 of his paintings bestowed by his sister-in-law, and for owning a Charles Rennie Mackintosh collection, including the architect's home (with his own furniture) on three levels, decorated in the original style.
University of Glasgow, Hillhead St.. Phone: 0141/330-5431 . Open: Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm (Mackintosh House closed 12:30-1:30pm). Free admission. Underground: Hillhead.

Hunterian Museum
Opened in 1807, this is Glasgow's oldest museum, in the main Glasgow University buildings 2 miles (3km) west of the heart of the city. The museum is named after William Hunter, its early benefactor, who donated his private collections to get the museum going.
University of Glasgow, Gilmorehill Building. Phone: 0141/330-4221, ext. 4221 . Open: Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm. Closed public hols. Free admission. Underground: Hillhead.

Museum of Transport
This museum contains a fascinating collection of all forms of transportation and related technology. Displays include a simulated 1938 Glasgow street with period shopfronts and appropriate vehicles and a reconstruction of one of the Glasgow Underground stations. An authentic motor-car showroom has a display of mass-produced automobiles.
1 Bunhouse Rd., Kelvin Hall. Phone: 0141/287-2720 . Open: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm. Closed Jan 1 and Dec 25. Free admission. Underground: Kelvin Hall.

People's Palace
A branch of the Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries organization, the People's Palace (built as a cultural center for the East End between 1895 and 1897) provides a visual record of the rise of Glasgow from its 1175-78 founding. Personal relics of Mary Queen of Scots represent her reign. The bulk of the collections are from Victorian Glasgow, including posters, programs, and props from the music-hall era.
Glasgow Green. Phone: 0141/554-0223 . Open: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm. Closed Jan 1 and Dec 25. Free admission. Bus: 14, 14A, 18, 18A, 18B, 20, or 62.

Pollok House
The ancestral home of the Maxwells, Pollok House was built around 1750, with additions from 1890 to 1908 designed by Robert Rowand Anderson. The house and its 360 acres of parkland were given to the city of Glasgow in 1966. Today a branch of the Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries organization, it contains one of the finest collections of Spanish paintings in Britain, with works by El Greco, Goya, and Murillo, among others.
Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws Rd.. Phone: 0141/649-7151 . Open: May-Sept Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm. Free admission. Bus: 57 or 57A.

Tenement House
An 1892 building on Garnethill, not far from the main shopping street, Sauchiehall Street, this house has been called a "Glasgow flat that time passed by." Until her death, Agnes Toward was an inveterate hoarder of domestic trivia. For 54 years she lived in this flat and stuffed it with the artifacts of her era, everything from a porcelain jawbox sink to such household aids as Monkey Brand soap.
145 Buccleuch St.. Phone: 0141/333-0183 . Open: Mar-Oct daily 2-5pm. Admission L3 adults, L2 seniors/students/children. Underground: Cowcaddens.