Glasgow, Woodside Place 1897
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Glasgow boasts one of the world's finest municipal collections of art, now housed at Kelvingrove. The nucleus of this was formed by Archibald McLellan (1796-1854); he bequeathed it to the city together with the McLellan Galleries in Sauchiehall Street, where the collection was originally displayed. His generosity inspired other wealthy benefactors and led to the creation of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, which opened in 1902. The greatest single benefactor, however, was Sir William Burrell, a shipping magnate, whose magpie propensities were rivalled only by William Randolph Hearst in America. This vast collection of the fine, applied and decorative arts was bequeathed to Glasgow in 1944, but it was not until 1983 that the Burrell Collection, in a modern state-of-the- art complex, was opened in Pollok Park.
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