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If you imagine Glasgow as a city lost in the rainy green hills and grey lakes of Scotland, you had better change your mind right now and immediately book a hotel in Glasgow. The largest city of Scotland and the second most populated of Great Britain has much more to offer than you may think at the first sight, especially if you are interested in art.

There are many museums and art galleries in Glasgow to cater to all tastes, so first visit the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum which houses one of the greatest art civic collection in Europe. Indeed, the museum is the most visited in the United Kingdom outside London, certainly because of an impressive arms collection, and the presence of famous paintings from old masters such as Dutch, Italian and French Impressionists, or the Scottish Colourists and the Glasgow Boys, and finally the celebrated Salvador Dali’s Christ of St John of the Cross.

Another inevitable place of art pilgrimage in Glasgow is the Burrell Collection, situated in the Pollock Country Park, and where you can admire more than 9000 pieces of art, from ancient China, Egypt, Greece and Rome, Islamic art, medieval art, to European paintings including works by Degas and Cezanne, and modern sculpture including works by Epstein and Rodin.

The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery homes a diverse collection ranging from fossils and archaeological remains to great works including those of Rembrandt, Chardin, Whistler or Mackintosh. If you love the Mackintosh, the museum also includes the Mackintosh House Gallery, where various examples of his work are displayed, such as watercolours, drawing and designs. Glasgow happens to be the birthplace of the artist, and you can find specimens of buildings he designed, as the Glasgow School of Art, the Lighthouse, the latter also housing the Scotland Centre for the Architecture Design and the City.

If you are interested in the contemporary art, the Gallery of Modern Art will fulfil any of your aspirations for modernism. The second most visited museum of the modern art after the Tate Modern in London, is the GoMA which displays rich and varied collections, featuring international artists like Ross Sinclair, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Byrne, Christine Borland, Martin Boyce, Kenny Hunter and Ken Currie.

As you could have understand, the only thing to do now is to search for a central hotel Glasgow, and appreciate the artistic beauties of the city. If you are looking for the hotels Glasgow many accommodations to offer...