Pollok House, Art museum in Glasgow, Scotland.
Pollok House is an 18th-century mansion in Glasgow filled with period furniture, porcelain collections, and elaborate cedar wood paneling throughout its rooms. The spaces also feature tapestries and decorative objects that reveal how a wealthy family lived over many generations.
The house was built in 1752 and belonged to the Maxwell family for around 700 years before being given to Glasgow City in 1966 by Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald. The transfer to public ownership made the estate accessible to the public as a museum.
The house displays an impressive collection of Spanish paintings by El Greco and Goya in beautifully decorated rooms with rich wood paneling. The spaces reflect the taste of a wealthy family that appreciated works by artists such as Rubens and William Blake.
Visitors can eat in a restaurant located in the former servants quarters and shop in two retail areas. Expansive gardens with marked paths allow for a relaxing walk through the grounds and rhododendron collection.
The cedar-paneled smoking room hosted meetings in 1931 that led to the founding of the National Trust for Scotland. This room stands as a record of how private spaces contributed to major changes in heritage protection.
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