Burrell Collection

The Burrell Collection is Scotland’s most outstanding museum. The Collection is set in the delightful surroundings of Pollok Country Park, formerly the grounds of Pollok House (NT), and can be reached by bus, train, or car (take the M8 towards the airport to the M77). Sir William Burrell, a successful Glasgow shipping agent, amassed a magnificent collection of some 9,000 works of art, primarily in the areas of medieval European art (the tapestries are stunning), Oriental ceramics and bronzes, and European paintings. In 1944 he bequeathed his collection to the city, with the stipulation that it be housed away from the highly polluted city center and eventually, in 1983, it found the perfect setting here in a corner of the Pollok Estate in a custom-built, award-winning building.