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City Centre Irvine
Ayrshire
~6.79 miles from Dalry city center
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City Centre Kilmarnock
Ayrshire
~11.02 miles from Dalry city center
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Paisley Abbey
Glasgow International Airport (GLA)
~14.99 miles from Dalry city center
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Paisley Abbey is a former Cluniac monastery, and current Church of Scotland parish kirk, located on the east bank of the White Cart Water in the centre of the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, in west central Scotland.
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City Centre Prestwick
Ayrshire
~15.09 miles from Dalry city center
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City Centre Ayr
Ayr
~17.27 miles from Dalry city center
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Scottish Maritime Museum
Glasgow Airport
~18.00 miles from Dalry city center
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The Scottish Maritime Museum has three sites in the West of Scotland, all with strong maritime connections. The museums located in Irvine, Dumbarton and Braehead portray a different aspect of Scotland’s maritime heritage.Located on the south bank of the River Clyde at Braehead, Clydebuilt brings to life the story of the development of Glasgow and the Clyde from 1700 to the present day. Opened in September 1999, it tells what was built on the Clyde and how the River Clyde itself was 'built'.The ground floor of the centre uses a timeline consisting of a large model of the River Clyde containing 300 gallons of flowing water. The river goes from a muddy stream, where in the 17th century you could wade across the Clyde at low tide, to the birthplace of ships great and small; through sai...
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The Burrell Collection
Glasgow
~18.01 miles from Dalry city center
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The Burrell Collection is an art collection in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated in Pollok Country Park on the south side of the city.The collection was put together over many years by Sir William Burrell, a wealthy industrialist, ship owner and art collector who then gifted it to the city of Glasgow in 1944. The gift was made on the condition that the collection was to be housed in a building 16 miles (26 km) from the centre of Glasgow, to show the works to their greatest advantage, and to avoid the damaging effects of air pollution at the time. The trustees spent over 20 years trying to find a suitable 'home' for the collection, one which met all the criteria set out in the Trust Deed, without success. Eventually, when The Pollok Estate was gifted to the city in 1967, the...
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Bellahouston Park
Glasgow
~18.09 miles from Dalry city center
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Bellahouston Park is a park in south west Glasgow, Scotland (grid reference NS550636), between the areas of Mosspark, Craigton, Ibrox, and Dumbreck covering an area of 71 hectares (180 acres). It is based around Ibrox hill in the centre, with commanding views over most of the city, exceptions being obscured by trees to the east and by hills in Mosspark to the south. Notable views include that of Ballageich (Balagich) hill, rising to 1,084 feet (330 m) on the southern horizon in East Renfrewshire.Until the late 19th century, Bellahouston Park consisted of farmland as part of the Maxwell Estate, which also included much of the surrounding areas including Maxwell Park, Pollok Country Park, Pollok House and Haggs Castle, and also housed a riding school. It became a park in 1895 and as Glas...
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Pollok House
Glasgow
~18.41 miles from Dalry city center
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Pollok House is the ancestral home of the Maxwell family, located in Pollok Country Park, Glasgow, Scotland.The house - built in 1752 and designed by William Adam - was gifted to the City of Glasgow in 1966 by Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald, whose family had owned the estate for almost 700 years. It is now managed by the National Trust for Scotland and is open to the public.Displayed within the Pollok House is a large, private collection of Spanish paintings, including works by El Greco, Francisco Goya and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. There are also paintings by William Blake, as well as glass, silverware, porcelain and antique furniture. The house also features servants' quarters downstairs (accessible free of charge), which include two shops and a restaurant.The house also has an extens...
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Art Lover's House
Glasgow
~18.56 miles from Dalry city center
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Glasgow Science Centre
Glasgow
~19.56 miles from Dalry city center
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Glasgow Science Centre is a visitor attraction located on the south bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. It is a purpose-built science centre composed of three principal buildings which are the Science Mall, an IMAX cinema and the Glasgow Tower. The Scottish tourist board, VisitScotland, awarded Glasgow Science Centre, located in the Clyde Waterfront Regeneration area, a five star rating in the visitor attraction category. As well as its main location, Glasgow Science Centre also manages the visitor centre at Whitelee Wind Farm, which is expected to open to the public in September 2009
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Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour
Glasgow
~19.60 miles from Dalry city center
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Glenlee is a three-masted baldheaded steel-hulled barque, launched fully rigged and seaworthy on December 3, 1896. She is now a museum ship at Yorkhill Quay, Glasgow, known as The Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour.Glenlee was built in 1896 at the Anderson Rodger & Company shipyard of Port Glasgow for the Glen-line of the Glasgow shipping company Archibald Sterling & Co. Ltd. and has a hull length of 245.5 ft (74.8 m), beam of 37.5 ft (11.4 m) and depth of 22.5 ft (6.9 m), the over-all length with the spike bowsprit is 282 ft (86 m). She has 1,613 GRT and 1,490 NRT. Rigged only with double topallant sails over double top sails, she was not equipped with royal sails (baldheader rigging) to save costs concerning gear and seamen. As with many baldheaded sailing ships the square sails were a littl...
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Clyde Auditorium
Glasgow
~19.81 miles from Dalry city center
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The Clyde Auditorium, familiarly known as "The Armadillo", is an iconic concert venue in Glasgow, Scotland. The building sits on the site of the now infilled Queen's Dock on the River Clyde, adjacent to the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.Plans for a new building to increase the capacity of the SECC complex were initiated in 1995. Designed by award-winning architects Foster and Partners, the 3,000 seat venue was completed in 1997, by which time it had earned its affectionate nickname due to the similarity of its shape to that of the animal of the same name. Many comparisons have been made with the Sydney Opera House, although this was not the architects' inspiration for the design, which was in fact an interlocking series of ship's hulls, in reference to the Clyde's shipbuildin...
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Hampden Park
Glasgow
~19.82 miles from Dalry city center
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Hampden Park in Glasgow is Scotland's national stadium. Its primary use is as the home to Queen's Park F.C. and the Scotland national football team. It is also used for music concerts and other sporting events.Hampden was built in 1903, though all signs of the original stadium are long gone. It is known throughout the world as an iconic home of football and celebrated its centenary on 31 October 2003. The stadium also houses the offices of the Scottish Football Association, SPL and Scottish Football League. During the 2012 Olympics it will also host games during the early stages of the Olympic football tournament. It has also hosted prestigious sporting events, including three Champions League finals and a UEFA Cup final.Hampden will be the key stadium of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. I...
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Museum of Transport
Glasgow
~19.88 miles from Dalry city center
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The Glasgow Museum of Transport Technology is currently located in the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland. It will permanently close on 18 April 2010 (in preparation for relocation to a new building).The museum is currently situated inside the Kelvin Hall opposite the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the West End of Glasgow. The Kelvin Hall was built in 1927, originally as an exhibition centre, but was converted in 1987 to house the Museum of Transport and the Kelvin Hall International Sports Arena. The Museum of Transport was first established in 1964. Created in the wake of the closure of Glasgow's tramway system in 1962, it was initially located at the former Coplawhill tram depot on Albert Drive in Pollokshields, before moving to the Kelvin Hall. The old building was subsequentl...
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Scotland Street School Museum
Glasgow
~19.89 miles from Dalry city center
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Scotland Street School Museum is a museum of school education in Glasgow, Scotland, in the district of Kingston. It is located in a former school built by Charles Rennie Mackintosh between 1903 and 1906. The building is one of Glasgow's foremost architectural attractions. It is located next to the Shields Road subway station.During the building's construction, Mackintosh frequently battled the school board about the design (the board wanted a less expensive design). The total cost for the building was £34,291, which was over budget. The building features a pair of windowed Scottish baronial style tower staircases. The school, which also served Tradeston, was designed for an enrolment of 1,250. However, by the 1970s the area was experiencing urban decay, and the school's enrolment fell to...
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Scotland St School Museum
Glasgow
~19.89 miles from Dalry city center
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Scotland Street School Museum is a museum of school education in Glasgow, Scotland, in the district of Kingston. It is located in a former school built by Charles Rennie Mackintosh between 1903 and 1906. The building is one of Glasgow's foremost architectural attractions. It is located next to the Shields Road subway station.During the building's construction, Mackintosh frequently battled the school board about the design (the board wanted a less expensive design). The total cost for the building was £34,291, which was over budget. The building features a pair of windowed Scottish baronial style tower staircases. The school, which also served Tradeston, was designed for an enrolment of 1,250. However, by the 1970s the area was experiencing urban decay, and the school's enrolment fell to...
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Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
Glasgow
~19.89 miles from Dalry city center
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The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, better known simply as the SECC, located on the north bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, is Scotland's largest exhibition centre. It has 22,355m2 of flexible space in five main exhibition halls, ranging in size from 775m2 to 10,065m2. The venue's holding company SEC Ltd is 91% owned by Glasgow City Council and 9% owned by private investors.It is probably best known for hosting concerts, with concerts taking place every other night in Hall 4 (seating 12,500) and Hall 3 (fully seated 4,232, seated/standing 4,656 and 5,852 for all standing).
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Glasgow
~20.02 miles from Dalry city center
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The Kelvingrove Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. The building houses one of Europe's great civic art collections. Since its refurbishment the museum is the most popular free to enter visitor attraction in Scotland, and the most visited museum in the United Kingdom outside London. It is located on Argyle Street, in the West End of the city, on the banks of the River Kelvin (opposite the architecturally similar Kelvin Hall, which was built in matching style some years later, after the previous hall had been destroyed by fire). It is adjacent to Kelvingrove Park and is situated immediately beneath the main campus of the University of Glasgow on Gilmorehill.The construction of Kelvingrove was partly financed by the proceeds of the 1888 International Exhibition he...
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University of Glasgow
Glasgow
~20.21 miles from Dalry city center
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The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the world.Glasgow was originally founded by a papal bull issued by Pope Nicholas V and is today ranked as amongst the top ten British universities for teaching quality and was the Sunday Times "Scottish University of the Year" for 2007. The university is a member of the Russell Group and of Universitas 21.Since 1870, the main University campus has been located on Gilmorehill in the West End of the city. Additionally, there are a number of university buildings elsewhere in the city: a facility at L...
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Hunterian Museum
Glasgow
~20.27 miles from Dalry city center
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The University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery is the oldest public museum in Scotland. It is located in various buildings on the main campus of the University in the west end of Glasgow.In 1783 William Hunter bequeathed his substantial and varied collections to the University of Glasgow. (Hunter, writing to Dr William Cullen) They were 'to be well and carefully packed up and safely conveyed to Glasgow and delivered to the Principal and Faculty of the College of Glasgow to whom I give and bequeath the same to be kept and preserved by them and their successors for ever.... in such sort, way, manner and form as .... shall seem most fit and most conducive to the improvement of the students of the said University of Glasgow.'The museum first opened in 1807, in a specially c...
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Botanic Gardens
Glasgow
~20.51 miles from Dalry city center
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Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material. Botanical gardens may also serve to entertain and educate the public, upon whom many depend for funding. However, not all botanical gardens are open to the public. According to the Botanic Gardens Conservation International, "Botanic gardens are institutions holding documented collections of living plants for the purposes of scientific research, conservation, display and education."
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St Vincent Street Church
Glasgow
~20.67 miles from Dalry city center
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St. Vincent Street Church is a Presbyterian church in Glasgow, Scotland. It was designed by Alexander Thomson (also known as "Greek" Thomson) and built in 1859 for the former United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. It is a Category A listed building.The church building is owned by Glasgow City Council, but is currently used by a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland: St Vincent Street-Milton Free Church.
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McLellan Galleries
Glasgow
~20.70 miles from Dalry city center
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The McLellan Galleries are an exhibition space in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Built in 1856, the Galleries are named after their founder, Archibald McLellan (1795-1854), a coach builder, councillor and patron of the arts. Following his death, Glasgow Corporation acquired the galleries, and for a time they were known as the Corporation Halls before reverting to their former owner's name. The Galleries were situated behind a frontage of shops in Sauchiehall Street and housed Glasgow School of Art from 1869 to 1899.In the 1980s the Galleries were ravaged by fire, but re-opened in 1990 as the largest high-quality, air-conditioned, temporary exhibition space in Scotland.While Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum was closed for refurbishment between 2003 and 2006, the McLellan Galleries hos...
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Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA)
Glasgow
~20.71 miles from Dalry city center
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Contemporary art, the art of the age that we live in, is the freest and most creative field of a modern society characterized by divergent cultural thrusts. In an age where humanities, social sciences and the hard sciences are expanding the boundaries of their disciplines, contemporary art maintains close links to all these fields, reflecting the diversity of society through free expression unfettered by existing values or paradigms. In doing so, contemporary art presents new directions for the issues in these other fields as they bear on present- day society. Yet, it is by no means easy for young artists to embark upon new creative endeavors that embody their understanding of the complex realities of the present day. In view of the meaning that art holds for modern society, it is ...
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Glasgow Central Station
Glasgow
~20.81 miles from Dalry city center
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Glasgow Central is the larger of the two present main-line railway terminals in Glasgow, Scotland, and is managed by Network Rail. It is the northern terminus of the West Coast Main Line, and was opened by the Caledonian Railway on 31 July 1879.Glasgow Central is the busiest railway station in the United Kingdom outside London. Around 34 million people use Glasgow Central each year, of which 21.5 million people use rail services from the station each year according to Network Rail. The station serves all of the Greater Glasgow conurbation's southern towns and suburbs, the Ayrshire and Clyde coasts, and is the terminus for all inter-city services from Glasgow to destinations south of the border.
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Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow
~20.82 miles from Dalry city center
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Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is one of only two independent art schools in Scotland, situated in the Garnethill area of Glasgow.It was founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Government School of Design, one of the first Government Schools of Design. In 1853 it changed its name to The Glasgow School of Art. Initially it was located at 12 Ingram Street, but in 1869 it moved to the McLellan Galleries. In 1897 work started on a new building to house the school on Renfrew Street. The building was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the first half of the building was completed in 1899 and the second in 1909.Departments include Fine Art photography, founded by Thomas Joshua Cooper in 1982, Painting and Printmaking,Sculpture and Environmental Art, Product Design, Product Design Engineering, Tex...
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Lighthouse
Glasgow
~20.86 miles from Dalry city center
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The Lighthouse in Glasgow, is Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City. It was opened as part of Glasgow's status as UK City of Architecture and Design in 1999.The Lighthouse is the renamed, conversion of the former offices of the "Glasgow Herald" newspaper. Completed in 1895, it was designed by the architectural firm Honeyman & Keppie, of which Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an apprentice.[1] The centre's vision is to develop the links between design, architecture, and the creative industries, seeing these as interconnected social, educational, economic and cultural issues of concern to everyone.
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City Centre Glasgow
Glasgow
~20.90 miles from Dalry city center
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Princes Square
Glasgow
~20.92 miles from Dalry city center
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Glasgow's Princes Square is Scotland's leading speciality shopping centre boasting an unrivalled mix of high street brands, designer labels and independent boutiques.A truly exceptional shopping experience, the centre encompasses over thirty stores covering fashion, lifestyle, beauty, gifts, art and jewellery.Located under one roof and over three elegant floors, Princes Square is a sophisticated alternative to Scotland's high street.
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