Travel Reference
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Scottish Football Museum
(The Hampden Experience;
www.scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk
; Hampden Park; adult/
child £6/3; 10am-5pm Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm Sun)
Football fans will love the Scottish
Football Museum, which features exhibits on the history of the game in Scotland and the
influence of Scots on the world game. Football inspires an incredible passion in Scotland
and the museum is crammed full of impressive memorabilia, including a cap and match
ticket from the very first international football game (which took place in 1872 between
Scotland and England, and ended 0-0). The museum's engrossing exhibits give insight in-
to the players, the fans, the media and the way the game has changed over the last 140
years. You can also take a tour of the stadium (adult/child £6/3; combined ticket with mu-
seum £9/4.50), home ground of the national football side and of lesser league outfit
Queens Park. The museum is at Hampden Park, off Aikenhead Rd. To get there, take a
train to Mount Florida station or take bus 5, 31, 37 or 75 from Stockwell St.
MUSEUM
North Side
The north side doesn't have much of interest for visitors, apart from a unique church that
also happens to be the headquarters of the Rennie Mackintosh Society.
Mackintosh Church
(
www.crmsociety.com
;
870 Garscube Rd; adult/child £4/free; 10am-5pm Mon, Wed &
Fri Apr-Oct, to 4pm Nov-Mar)
Now the headquarters of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Society, this is the only one of Mackintosh's church designs to be built. It has excellent
stained glass and relief carvings, and the wonderful simplicity and grace of the barrel-
shaped design is particularly inspiring. Garscube Rd is the northern extension of Rose St
in the city centre.
MACKINTOSH BUILDING
THE GLASGOW BOYS
The great rivalry between Glasgow and Edinburgh has also played out in the art world. In the late 19th century a
group of Glaswegian painters challenged the domineering artistic establishment in the capital. Up to this point,
paintings were largely confined to historical scenes and sentimental visions of the Highlands. These painters - in-
cluding Sir James Guthrie, EA Hornel, George Henry and Joseph Crawhall - experimented with colour and
themes of rural life, shocking Edinburgh's conservative artistic society. Many of them went to study in Paris studi-
os, and brought back a much-needed breath of European air into the Scottish art scene. Like Charles Rennie
Mackintosh, the Glasgow Boys' work met with admiration and artistic recognition on the Continent.
