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WELCOME to Virtual Glasgow, a experience with content specific to your selection of experiences showcasing event. the rich variety of things to see and do, We can include things that are in and around the city. important to you and customise all As the world adapts to doing things aspects of the content to suit your differently for now, we wanted to ensure messaging, audience and delegate that while it is not possible for you to profile, from cover imagery to visit Glasgow at present, whether as introductory messages to key note an organiser or delegate, it is possible speaker profiles to speech texts & video to show you around this amazing city presentations to professional papers and regardless of where in the world you are. peer reviews and much much more. To make sure you get the best possible Your bespoke version can be supplied experience, we shall continue to add as an interactive PDF or published online more and more great points of interest with links, live multi-media features and both in the city and nearby, as we other rich content. continually develop our virtual content. Please contact me directly if you would If you are an organiser please get in like to find out more. touch if you would like us to create an Wishing you a successful hybrid event. individual, bespoke version of this virtual Frank Willoughby Publisher - Virtual Glasgow / In & Around Guides

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THE CLYDESIDE DISTILLERY 100 Stobcross Road, Glasgow, G3 8QQ GLASGOW CENTRAL STATION TOUR T. 0141 212 1401 Photo courtesy of Gordon Street. G1 3SL www.theclydeside.com Glasgow Life 07734 647381 Glasgow’s stills are flowing once again at www.glasgowcentraltours.co.uk The Clydeside Distillery. Discover how our CITY CHAMBERS One of Glasgow's iconic landmarks. On the craftsmen handcraft our whisky the time- George Square. G1 1DU tour you will be given an exclusive, behind honoured way. Experience the stunning 0141 287 2000. www.glasgow.gov.uk the scenes look at Glasgow Central Station. views down the River Clyde from our You will walk in subterranean passageways picturesque Still House. See the fascinating Glasgow City Chambers is one of the most beneath Glasgow's streets and visit railway history come to life on our Tours and learn important and prestigious buildings in the vaults that drove Glasgow's industrial about the heyday of Glasgow’s Queen’s Dock. city. City Chambers is an impressive symbol Unwind in our sumptuous Clydeside Café of the Glasgow's political strength and expansion to become "The Second City Of with platters and whisky flights. Browse our historical wealth. The interior boasts stunning The Empire". A truly unique tour not to be selection of rare and regional malts in our architecture as well as beautifully ornate missed. Tours must be pre-booked please call Whisky Shop. staircases and stairs. A must visit! to check availabilty. PARTICK STATION 11A DISTILLERY BUCHANAN ST 1 GEORGE SQ ST ENOCH 8 CENTRAL STN

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KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AG 0141 276 9599 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/kelvingrove-art-gallery-and-museum Opened in 1901, Glasgow’s favourite building houses over 8,000 objects in 22 galleries of fine art, history, natural history, arms and armour and decorative art. Highlights in fine art include Dali’s Christ of St John of the Cross, The Young Girls by Mary Cassat and Portrait of Alexander Reid by Van Gogh. In decorative art, there is a gallery dedicated to Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style, featuring stunning examples of his work in furniture and design.

RIVERSIDE MUSEUM Pointhouse Place, Glasgow, G3 8RS 0141 287 2720 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/riverside-museum CITY SIGHTSEEING BUS TOUR Scotland’s Museum of Transport and Travel showcases all forms of transport from George Square G1 3BJ 0141 204 4400 prams to locomotives! This spectacular museum was designed by the internationally www.citysightseeingglasgow.co.uk renowned architect Zaha Hadid and sits on the banks of the River Clyde, site of the famous Clyde shipbuilding industry. The museum features the largest object in Open top bus tours. The perfect way to see Glasgow. Tickets Glasgow Museums’ collection, the South African Railways locomotive 3007, as well as valid for two days. Hop on Hop off as often as you like with the world’s oldest bicycle and a recreated early 1900’s street. This is no conventional live or translated commentary available. transport museum though – the stories of the people who made, drove and used BUCHANAN ST 7 GEORGE SQ transport are centre-stage with the objects.

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www.glasgowmusiccitytours.com [email protected] GMCT provide guided walking tours of the city's past and present music scene. By visiting existing venues and disturbing the ghosts of long gone venues, we explore the people, places and performances which helped Glasgow become a UNESCO City of Music. Tours run Saturdays at 11am and 2pm and last two hours. ◄ Guide Fiona Shepherd outside St Andrew’s in the Square II. Merchant City Tour. Photo by Jannica Honey

HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER House-for-an-Art-Lover Bellahouston Park, Dumbreck Road, G41 5BW @HouseArtLover T. 0141 483 1600 @houseforanartlover www.houseforanartlover.co.uk Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, House for an Art Lover provides an excellent cultural attraction and tourist destination, while also being one of the city’s finest wedding and events venues. The House is home to the popular Art Lovers Café, Gallery and Shop, and within the grounds you will also find the Studio Pavilion and Heritage Centre as well as a beautiful Walled Garden. The Art Lover’s Café is open 10am until 4pm with morning bites from 10am, Lunch from noon and Afternoon Tea from 2pm. MACKINTOSH AT THE

Photo courtesy of WILLOW THE MERCHANTS HOUSE Glasgow Life 215-217 Sauchiehall Street. G2 3EX T. 7 West George St, Glasgow, G2 1BA 0141 332 7696 T: 0141 221 8272 www.merchantshouse.org.uk www.willowtearoomstrust.org The Merchants House is one of the oldest social Miss Cranston’s original Willow enterprises in Scotland, dating back to 1605 it Tea Rooms were designed by has consistently supported charities within Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1903. Glasgow and West of Scotland. Our grant Mackintosh at the Willow operates as a aid can support foodbanks to musical not-for-profit social enterprise creating projects. Based at the corner of George training, learning, employment and Square, the Merchants House is an other opportunities and support for ideal base for an event; Host your young people and communities in conference, meeting, partnership with The Prince’s Trust. private party – rooms Prince’s Trust trainees are part of the customer facing and kitchen to suit all, with teams. Through our Learning and Education activities they also work profits being with local schools and community groups. So, when you visit, you’re returned to also contributing to creating positive change. As well as the iconic our social tearooms they offer meeting and events spaces, a creative learning and giving. education department, an exciting exhibition and retail store. 5 Virtual Glasgow

GLENGOYNE DISTILLERY Drumgoyne G63 9LB 01360 550254 www.glengoyne.com Set in stunning scenery just outside Glasgow, Glengoyne offers visitors unique distillery tours and a superb whisky shop at what some regard as Scotland’s most beautiful distillery.

THE LIGHTHOUSE 11 Mitchell Lane G1 3NU 0141 276 5360 www.thelighthouse.co.uk Scotland’s centre for design and architecture houses permanent exhibitions including Foun- dation, a unique history of Glasgow, as well as design exhibition and The Lighthouse Shop. BUCHANAN ST 7 ST VINCENT PL

HUNTERIAN MUSEUM – THE MACKINTOSH HOUSE 82 Hillhead Street. G12 8QQ The Mackintosh House is a meticulous reassemblage of the principal interiors from the Mackintoshes’ Glasgow home. The couple lived at 78 Southpark Avenue (originally 6 Florentine Terrace) from 1906 to 1914. Substantial alterations were made in 1906 as Mackintosh remodelled the proportions and natural lighting of the Victorian end-of-terrace house. The principal interiors were decorated in his distinctive style, remarkable then, and now, for the disciplined austerity of the furnishings and decoration. 14 UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW

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