This will be our fourth of five nights here. Each day we've chosen one or a couple of destinations. The first day we visited the Hunterian Museum. All kinds of art plus the recreated MacIntosh house. The museum itself is free, but the Macintosh House, though connected, has a 10 lb. fee, We decided to save that for another day, and plan to go there tomorrow. It must be privately funded, whereas the museum is part of the national museums. MacIntosh was an architect and artist who has been described as the Scottish Frank Lloyd Wright. There is defintinitely a similarity in their aesthetics. Lots of architectural angles, stained glass, although I doubt MacIntosh, or even Scots in general would be pleased to have him compared that way. His wife, Margaret MacDonald, was also an artist and architect, and they often worked together. But it seems that she doesn't get quite the recognition that he does. Sound familiar?
I'll know more, and write more about them in a subsequent post.
The museums are on the campus of Glasgow University, and it was interesting to wander through the campus on our walk. Graduation must be later in the year here than at home, because there were several people in gowns posing for pictures, and I saw ads for graduation parties at the restaurant downstairs here at our hotel.
Today we visited the Tenement Museum. Fascinating. It is the preserved residence of Agnes Toward, a woman who lived there in the early 20th century, first with her mother, and then on her own after her mother's death, until 1965. She lived another 10 years, hosptitalized, until her death in the 1970s. She bequeathed two chairs to a friend from her church. The house remained unoccupied until the 1980s, when it was scheduled to be demolished. The
