Editing Burrell Collection

{{short description|Art collection in the city of Glasgow, Scotland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2023}}
{{Infobox museum
| name            = Burrell Collection
| image           = Wfm burrell collection.jpg
| map_type        = Scotland Glasgow
| established     = {{Start date|1983}}
| location        = [[Glasgow]], Scotland
| website         = {{URL|https://burrellcollection.com/}}
}}

The '''Burrell Collection''' is a museum in [[Glasgow]], Scotland, managed by [[Glasgow Museums]]. It houses the art collection of [[William Burrell|Sir William Burrell]] and [[Constance Burrell|Constance, Lady Burrell]]. The museum opened in 1983 and reopened on 29 March 2022 following a major refurbishment.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Schwarz |first=Gabrielle |date=2022-02-09 |title=The Burrell Collection is back – and look at what a £68 million glow-up gets you |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/burrell-collection-review-farewell-leaky-roof-hello-heavenly/ |access-date=2022-04-05 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> It was announced as the winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year in July 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Art Fund Museum of the Year |url=https://www.artfund.org/museum-of-the-year |access-date=2023-07-13 |website=Art Fund |language=en}}</ref> It is the only non-national museum to be the outright winner twice.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

==History==
[[File:Assyrian Royal Attendant from Nimrud, Mesopotamia..JPG|thumb|Assyrian Royal Attendant from [[Nimrud]], Mesopotamia|297x297px]]
The eclectic collection was acquired over many years by [[William Burrell|Sir William Burrell]], a wealthy Glasgow shipping magnate and art collector, and his wife Constance, Lady Burrell, who then gave it to the city of [[Glasgow Corporation]] in 1944.<ref name="arch">{{cite web|title=The Collection, the gift to Glasgow and the charity that cares for it|url=https://burrellcollection.com/the-collection-the-gift-to-glasgow-and-the-charity-that-cares-for-it/|accessdate=2 October 2021|publisher=Glasgowarchitecture.co.uk}}</ref> Throughout his collecting career, Burrell lent many of the works in his collection to special exhibitions and for display in museums. Sometime {{circa|1930}}, he decided that he was going to donate his entire collection to the public.<ref name=":2">{{cite book |last=Bellamy & MacDonald |title=William Burrell: A Collector's Life |publisher=Birlinn |year=2022 |isbn=9781780277608}}</ref>

Burrell then began the process of finding a home for the remaining 6,000 items. He initially wanted it to go to London, which he saw as the centre of the art world. He approached the Westminster government with the idea that he would leave his collection to the nation as a separate government institution, like the [[Wallace Collection]]. Although the government took the offer seriously, it had more pressing wartime priorities. Burrell then approached [[London County Council]] with a similar offer. Negotiations got to an advanced stage, but in the end the cost of maintaining the collection proved too much and the offer was declined.<ref name=":2" />

Burrell then turned to Glasgow. He had already gifted 48 paintings and 30 prints to the [[Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum]] in 1925, and much of his collection was already on semi-permanent display there, particularly the Chinese works. The museum had recently appointed [[Tom Honeyman|Dr T. J. Honeyman]] as director, a man whom Burrell admired and trusted. His influence was instrumental in Burrell's final decision to offer his collection to the city of Glasgow.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Honeyman |first=T.J. |title=Art and Audacity |publisher=Collins |year=1971 |location=London}}</ref>

==Finding a home for the collection==
A memorandum of agreement between William and Constance and the Corporation of Glasgow was signed in April 1944. Burrell had clear intentions regarding the collection's location, contents and display, and the agreement stated that the collection was to be housed by Glasgow Corporation "in a suitable distinct and separated building" that was to be "within {{convert|4|mi|km|0|abbr=off|disp=sqbr|spell=on}} of Killearn, Stirlingshire, and not less than {{convert|16|mi|km|0|abbr=off|disp=sqbr|spell=in}} from Glasgow Royal exchange."<ref name=":2" />

Burrell donated £450,000 for the construction of a museum for his collection, but finding a suitable site for it was not easy. The city had immediately started making investigations, and by the late 1940s, at least eight different sites were considered. [[Mugdock Castle]] Estate, near [[Milngavie]], was seriously considered, even though it was much closer to Glasgow than the stipulated {{convert|16|mi|km}}. In 1951, the Dougalston estate, also near Milngavie, was gifted to Glasgow by the widow of a Glasgow shipbuilder on the condition that the Burrell Collection be constructed on the site. Preparations got to an advanced stage, but in 1955, the [[National Coal Board]] announced plans to sink a coal mine nearby. All plans for the Burrell Collection were abandoned and the collection remained in storage for many years.<ref name=":2" />

The ideal solution finally arrived with the offer of [[Pollok House]] and its [[Pollok Country Park|estate]] to the city of Glasgow. This was the ancestral home of the [[Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet|Stirling-Maxwells]] on the south side of Glasgow. It was only {{convert|3|miles|km}} from the city centre, but its {{convert|360|acre|adj=on}} parkland made it an ideal rural setting that was within the spirit of Burrell's ambitions for his museum. After long and protracted negotiations, the government stepped in with financial support of £250,000 for the museum. In 1967, the Pollok estate was transferred to the city, and preparations to build the Burrell Collection finally got underway.<ref name=":2" />

==Building==
In 1970, an architectural competition was launched to identify a suitable architect for the museum. The competition brief made it clear that whilst the competitors were to comply with Burrell's exacting conditions, they were at liberty to design "a fine modern building" which would make the most out of both the collection and the site. The closing date for the competition for the museum building in 1971 was delayed by a postal strike, allowing time for the eventual winning architect Barry Gasson to complete his entry, designed in collaboration with John Meunier and [[Brit Andresen]], all tutors at Cambridge University's [[Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge|School of Architecture]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Merrick |first1=Jay |title=The Burrell Collection reworked by John McAslan Architects |url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/the-burrell-collection-reworked-by-john-mcaslan-architects |access-date=26 April 2022 |work=Architects Journal |date=14 April 2022}}</ref>

As the project progressed, the costs increased, and this jeopardized the museum. Glasgow Corporation approached the government for additional support. The [[Secretary of State for Scotland]] promised to meet 50 per cent of the estimated £9.6 million cost in recognition that the Burrell Collection was not just important for Glasgow, but was a national treasure that would benefit the country as a whole.

Construction work commenced on 3 May 1978<ref name="AJBL">{{cite news |title=The Burrell Collection: Barry Gasson Architects, Glasgow, 1983 |url=https://www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk/projects/display/id/2137 |access-date=26 April 2022 |work=Architects Journal Buildings Library}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Anderson |first=Deborah |date=8 February 2022 |title=When did Glasgow's Burrell Collection open? |work=HeraldScotland |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19906068.glasgows-burrell-collection-open/ |access-date=26 April 2022}}</ref> and continued over the next five years. The building was influenced by Scandinavian design. The architects used the orientation of the building to bring in as much natural light as possible, while still protecting the vulnerable parts of the collection. The integration of the building, its rural setting, and the collection was central to the architects' thinking,<ref name="RM22">{{cite news |last1=Moore |first1=Rowan |title=Burrell Collection reopening: a great Glasgow one-off becomes just a little less extraordinary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/feb/13/burrell-collection-glasgow-renovation-review-reopening-john-mcaslan-and-partners-john-meunier |access-date=26 April 2022 |work=The Observer |date=13 February 2022}}</ref> and the way in which the objects were built into the structure ensured that the museum became a part of the collection rather than simply being a space in which Burrell's objects were housed.

The building is L-shaped in plan and is tailored to house and display the collection, with larger pieces such as [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] doorways built into the structure, at the same time giving views out into the park over formal grassed areas to the south and into adjacent woodland to the north.

The entrance, through a 16th-century stone archway built into a modern red sandstone gable, leads to a shop and other facilities, then on to a central courtyard under a glazed roof, adjacent to the reconstructions of three rooms from the Burrells' home, [[Hutton Castle]] near [[Berwick-on-Tweed]]:<ref name="RM22"/> the wood-panelled drawing room, hall, and dining room complete with their furnishings. Galleries on two levels house various smaller artefacts, over a basement storage level, and at the lower level a restaurant gives views over the lawn to the south.<ref name=arch/>

The museum was opened by Queen [[Elizabeth II]] on 21 October 1983. More than a million visitors passed through its doors in the first year, and the Burrell Collection quickly established itself as one of Glasgow's most-loved buildings. It was named as [[Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings|Scotland's second greatest post-war building]] (after [[Gillespie, Kidd & Coia]]'s [[St Peter's Seminary, Cardross|St Peter's Seminary]], now derelict) in a poll of architects by ''[[Prospect (architecture magazine)|Prospect]]'' magazine in 2005.<ref>{{cite news |title=Revealed: top 100 modern Scots buildings |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/revealed-top-100-modern-scots-buildings-2472119 |access-date=26 April 2022 |work=The Scotsman |date=2 October 2005}}</ref>

===Awards for the original building===
The Burrell Collection received the following awards after it first opened in 1983:<ref>{{cite news |date=1 July 1985 |title=Museum of the Year 1985 Award Winners |work=Illustrated London News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=2 August 1984 |title=Tourism Award for Museum |work=Newmarket Journal}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Awards and Winners |url=http://nationalheritage.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/MOYA-list1.pdf |website=National Heritage |access-date=28 June 2019}}</ref>

* British Tourism Authority Come to Britain Trophy, 1984
* Building Services Award for Energy Use, 1984,
* National Heritage Scottish [[Museum of the Year]] Award, 1985
* UK [[Museum of the Year]] Award, 1985
* Sotheby's Award for the best Fine Art Museum, 1985
* Civic Trust Award, 1985
* Eternit Architecture Prize, 1985
* Designer Award, Interior Design Category, 1986
* International Academy of Architecture Gold Award, 1987

The building was awarded A-listed status by [[Historic Scotland]] in February 2013 in recognition of its position as one of the country's finest examples of 1970s architectural design.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/burrell_collection.htm |title=Burrell Collection – Glasgow Museum Building |publisher=Glasgowarchitecture.co.uk |date=1 February 2013 |access-date=22 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Historic Scotland listing |url=http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB52002 |website=Historic Scotland}}</ref>

===2016–2022 refurbishment===
In 2016, the museum was closed for refurbishments.<ref name=":0">{{cite press release |title=Glasgow's Burrell Collection reaching new sustainability standards |url=https://burrellcollection.com/news/glasgow-s-burrell-collection-reaching-new-sustainability-standards/ |publisher=[[Glasgow Museums]] |website=burrellcollection.com |date=10 November 2021 |access-date=27 March 2022}}</ref> The £68.25 million project aimed to repair the building, make it more sustainable, and increase gallery space.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Burrell Collection {{!}} case study – News {{!}} VisitScotland.org |url=http://www.visitscotland.org/news/2021/burrell |access-date=27 January 2022 |website=visitscotland.org}}</ref> On 29 March 2022, the museum reopened to the public,<ref name=":3" /> with [[Charles III|King Charles III]] visiting on 13 October 2022 to officially re-open the venue.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-10-13 |title=King Charles opens Glasgow's revamped Burrell Collection |language=en-GB |publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-63246881 |access-date=2023-01-02}}</ref>

===Awards following refurbishment===
The Burrell Collection has received the following awards following the refurbishment in 2022:

* British Construction Industry Awards, 2022, Cultural & Leisure Project of the Year<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Metropolis |title=BCI Awards 2023 – 2022 winners |url=https://bcia.newcivilengineer.com/bcia2023/en/page/2022-winners |access-date=2023-06-30 |website=bcia.newcivilengineer.com |language=en}}</ref>
* British Construction Industry Awards, 2022, Project of the Year Award<ref name=":6" />
* Façade Design and Engineering Awards, 2023, Project of the Year, Refurbishment<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winners of CIBSE Facade Awards announced |url=https://specificationonline.co.uk/articles/2022-11-07/cibse/winners-of-cibse-facade-awards-announced |access-date=2023-06-30 |website=specificationonline.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>
* AJ Architecture Awards, 2022, Cultural Award<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Fran |date=2022-11-23 |title=AJ Architecture Awards 2022 winners revealed |url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/aj-architecture-awards-2022-winners-revealed |access-date=2023-06-30 |website=The Architects' Journal |language=en}}</ref>
* AJ Architecture Awards, 2022, Heritage Award<ref name=":7" />
* Cultural Enterprises Awards, 2023, Best shop<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meet the Winners – The Association For Cultural Enterprises |url=https://culturalenterprises.org.uk/awards/winners-2023/ |access-date=2023-06-30 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* AJ Retrofit Awards, 2023, Cultural and Religious Building (£5 million and over)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Metropolis |title=AJ Retrofit Awards 2023 – 2023 winners |url=https://retrofit.architectsjournal.co.uk/retrofit23/en/page/2023-winners |access-date=2023-06-30 |website=retrofit.architectsjournal.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>
* Civic Trust Awards, 2023, Michael Middleton Special Award<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Civic Trust Awards |year=2023 |title=Civic Trust Awards Michael Middleton Special Award |url=https://www.civictrustawards.org.uk/winners/the-burrell-collection-sa}}</ref>
* Civic Trust Awards, 2023, Award<ref name=":5" />
* Art Fund Museum of the Year, 2023, Winner<ref>{{Cite web |last=Art Fund Museum of the Year |year=2023 |title=Art Fund Museum of the Year |url=https://www.artfund.org/museum-of-the-year}}</ref>
* Scottish Design Awards, 2023, Judges' Grand Prix Award<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Scottish Design Awards |year=2023 |title=Scottish Design Awards 2023 |url=https://www.scottishdesignawards.com/2023/}}</ref>
* Scottish Design Awards, 2023, Gold Award: Design for Good<ref name=":4" />
* Scottish Design Awards, 2023, Gold Award:  Architecture: Public Building<ref name=":4" />
* Scottish Design Awards, 2023, Gold Award: Moving Imagery Design<ref name=":4" />
* Scottish Design Awards, 2023, Gold Award: Experiential, Incorporating Audiovisual, Graphic and Object-based Displays<ref name=":4" />
* RIAS Architectural Heritage Award 2024<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-17 |title=RIAS unveils winners of 2024 Special Awards |url=https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/articles/rias-unveils-winners-of-2024-special-awards |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=Scottish Construction Now |language=en}}</ref>

==Collection==
Containing over 9,000 objects, the Burrell contains an important collection of [[medieval art]] including [[stained glass]] and [[tapestries]], oak furniture, [[medieval weapons]] and [[armour]], [[Islamic art]], artefacts from [[ancient Egypt]] and [[Ancient China|China]], [[Impressionism|Impressionist]] works by [[Degas]] and [[Cézanne]], [[modern sculpture]] and a host of other artefacts from around the world, all collected by Burrell.<ref name="arch" /> Paintings from five centuries and artworks spanning six millennia are found in the collection.

===Chinese art===
Burrell started collecting Chinese antiques {{circa|1910}}. He acquired items from all periods of Chinese history; including [[Burial urn#Cremation urns|Neolithic burial urns]], carved jades, porcelain from the [[Tang dynasty]], bronze ritual vessels, [[earthenware]] figures, and antique furniture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://carp.arts.gla.ac.uk/essay1.php?enum=1097070125 |title=CARP: From Collector To Connoisseur: Sir William Burrell and Chinese Art, 1911–57 |publisher=Carp.arts.gla.ac.uk |access-date=22 August 2013}}</ref> The collection now includes one of the most significant holdings of Chinese art in the UK.<ref name="arch" />

===Islamic art===
Islamic antiques donated by Burrell to the museum include: [[Hispano-Moresque ware|Hispano-Moresque lustreware]], ceramics and carpets from Iran and the [[Mughal Empire]], as well as [[Embroidery|embroideries]] and textiles from Turkey and Uzbekistan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discoverislamicart.org/pm_partner.php?id=Mus04;uk&type=museum&theme=ISL& |title=Discover Islamic Art – Virtual Museum |publisher=Discoverislamicart.org |access-date=22 August 2013}}</ref> One highlight is The Wagner Garden Carpet from 17th century Iran as one of the most remarkable garden carpets to have survived to the present.<ref>{{cite web|title=Glasgow Museums Collections Online|url=http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/mwebcgi/mweb?request=record;id=33061;type=101|access-date=27 January 2022|website=collections.glasgowmuseums.com}}</ref>

===Medieval art===
====Gothic art====
The museum has a collection of religious art from the medieval period. This includes wood and stone sculptures, wooden church furnishings and architectural fragments.<ref>{{cite web|title=Collections – Glasgow Life|url=http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/burrell-collection/the-collection/Pages/The-Collection.aspx}}</ref> One of these items is the [[Temple Pyx]]. [[File:Statue of The Thinker, 1880 CE..JPG|thumb|left|Thinker, Auguste Rodin 1880 CE|303x303px]]

====Tapestries====
The collection has over 200 tapestries and carpets.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Burrell Collection Highlights|url=https://burrellcollection.com/collection-highlights/|access-date=27 January 2022|website=Burrell}}</ref>

====Stained glass====
The museum is home to more than 700 stained glass panels from across Europe in the collection, including many examples of Gothic, Renaissance, and Romanesque styles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cannon-macinnes.co.uk/linda-cannon/ |title = Cannon {{!}} MacInnes :: Linda Cannon}}</ref> Much of the glass has [[heraldry|heraldic]] motifs.

In 2013, a project was commenced to conserve and research the museum's collection of stained glass from the [[Carmelite]] church at Boppard-am-Rhein, Germany. The 34 panels that make up the Burrell collection of Boppard windows have a combined surface area of 14 square metres.<ref>{{cite journal|title=New Conservation Project Under Way at The Burrell Collection|url=http://vidimus.org/blogs/news/new-conservation-project-underway-at-the-burrell-collection/|date=17 April 2013|journal=Vidimus|issue=68|access-date=22 August 2013}}</ref>

===French art===
The collection includes an array of French art from Realist painting to Impressionism, including works by Bonvin, Boudin, Corot, Courbet, Daubigny, Daumier, Degas, Fantin-Latour, Manet and Millet.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|title=Burrell Collection objects and paintings in major tour to Marseilles and cities across Japan|url=https://burrellcollection.com/news/burrell-collection-objects-and-paintings-in-major-tour-to-marseilles-and-cities-across-japan/|access-date=27 January 2022|website=Burrell}}</ref>

Burrell had a particular appreciation for Degas and with more than 20 works by the artist,<ref name=":1" /> the museum now holds one of the greatest collections of Degas's works in the world.<ref>{{cite web|title=Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell {{!}} Past exhibitions {{!}} National Gallery, London|url=https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/drawn-in-colour-degas-from-the-burrell|access-date=27 January 2022|website=nationalgallery.org.uk}}</ref>

==Claims for Nazi-looted art==
During the 1930s and 1940s, many artworks came onto the market as a result of forced auction sales of works belonging to Jewish collectors by the Nazis. Burrell acquired works from a number of dealers during this time. Although he was not aware of it at the time, subsequent research shows that a number of works originated from forced sales.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bellamy & MacDonald |title=Sir William Burrell: A Collector's Life |publisher=Birlinn |year=2022 |isbn=9781780277608 |pages=142–3}}</ref> Following the establishment of the UK government's [[Spoliation Advisory Panel]] in 2000, Glasgow Museums listed works from the Burrell Collection on the official spoliation website whose provenance had gaps between 1933 and 1945. This has enabled two cases to be successfully resolved by the Spoliation Advisory Panel:

* A still life by [[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin|Chardin]] from the sale of the stock of A. S. Drey, a Jewish-owned gallery in Munich. The panel agreed in 2004 that the painting had been subject to a forced sale and that it should be restituted to its rightful owners. The heirs accepted an ''ex gratia'' payment of £10,000 from Glasgow City Council and the painting remains in the collection.<ref>{{cite web |title=Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-of-the-spoliation-advisory-panel-a-painting-now-in-the-possession-of-glasgow-city-council |website=Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Boztas |first=Senay |date=24 November 2002 |title=Looted Art |url=https://lootedart.com/news.php?r=MOAJEL279401}}</ref>
* A Swiss early 16th-century tapestry, ''The Visitation'', from the collection of [[Emma Budge|Emma Ranette Budge]], a Jewish art collector from Hamburg, The panel concluded in 2014 that Burrell's acquisition was the result of a forced sale. Glasgow City Council agreed to make an ''ex gratia'' payment to Budge's Estate that reflected the current market value of the tapestry. In consideration of this payment, Budge's Estate released any claim over the tapestry and it remains in the collection.<ref>{{cite report |title=Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel: Tapestry fragment in the Burrell Collection |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-of-the-spoliation-advisory-panel-in-respect-of-a-tapestry-fragment-in-the-burrell-collection-glasgow-city-council |publisher=[[Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport]] |isbn=978-1-4741-1189-8|date=27 November 2014 |access-date=29 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=13 August 2015|title=Burrell Collection payment over Nazi-looted tapestry|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-33912057|access-date=12 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Phil |date=7 August 2015 |title=Glasgow to pay compensation to family whose Burrell Collection art was lost to Nazis |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13582839.glasgow-to-pay-compensation-to-family-whose-burrell-collection-art-was-lost-to-nazis/ |access-date=12 March 2021 |website=HeraldScotland |quote=Glasgow is to pay compensation that could run into tens of thousands of pounds to the heirs of a Jewish woman after a tapestry in the Burrell Collection was found to have been plundered by the Nazis. The fragment in the world-famous art collection was part of a Nazi 'forced sale' from a Jewish widow in the 1930s.}}</ref>

==Transport links==
The nearest railway station to the Burrell Collection is [[Pollokshaws West railway station|Pollokshaws West]] (approximately a 10-minute walk), with trains to [[Glasgow Central railway station|Glasgow Central]] normally operating four times per hour (three times an hour on Sundays).

[[Pollok House]], administered by the [[National Trust for Scotland]], is also situated in Pollok Country Park.

A free shuttle bus is also available, linking key points in the park from the Burrell Collection to Pollok House. One of the stops is located inside the park, nearby Pollokshaws Road, entrance and continues in a loop throughout the park.<ref>{{cite news|title=Parking charges to start at Pollok Country Park ahead of Burrell Collection reopening|url=https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/19878200.parking-charges-start-pollok-country-park-ahead-burrell-collection-reopening/ |first=Deborah |last=Anderson |date=21 January 2022|access-date=22 February 2022|work=Glasgow Times}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery heights="140">
File:Head of a royal attendant. From the North-West Palace at Nimrud, Iraq. Reign of Ashurnasirpall II, 883-859 BCE. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, UK.jpg|Head of a royal attendant. From the North-West Palace at Nimrud, Iraq. Reign of Ashurnasirpall II, 883–859 BCE
File:Head of Persephone. Earthenware. From Sicily, Centuripae, c. 420 BCE. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, UK.jpg|Head of Persephone. Earthenware. From Sicily, Centuripae, {{circa|420&nbsp;BCE}}
File:Paraherwenemef, Chief Charioteer. The nomen and prenomen cartouches of Ramesses II appear. From Egypt. 19th Dynasty, 1290-1224 BCE. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, UK.jpg|Paraherwenemef, Chief Charioteer. The nomen and prenomen cartouches of Ramesses II appear. From Egypt. 19th Dynasty, 1290–1224 BCE
File:Persian carpets. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, UK.jpg|Persian carpets
File:Christ on the cross, flanked by the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist and 4 other saints. Retable. Painted limestone. From Burgundy, France, c. 1450-1500 CE. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow.jpg|Christ on the cross, flanked by the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist and 4 other saints. Retable. Painted limestone. From Burgundy, France, c. 1450–1500 CE
File:Glass dish. Green-tinted moulded glass. From Fustat, Egypt. Fatimid period, 11th century CE. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, UK.jpg|Glass dish. Green-tinted moulded glass. From Fustat, Egypt. Fatimid period, 11th century CE
File:Ram's head. Limestone. From China, Tang Dynasty, 618-907 CE. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, UK.jpg|Ram's head. Limestone. From China, Tang dynasty, 618–907 CE
File:Stained glass. Medieval Europe. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, UK.jpg|Stained glass. Medieval Europe
File:Women Drinking Beer.jpg|Women Drinking Beer, Manet, {{circa|1878}}
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[List of Category A listed buildings in Glasgow]]
*[[List of post-war Category A listed buildings in Scotland]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category}}
* [https://burrellcollection.com/ Official website]
* [https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/the-burrell-collection The Burrell Collection (Glasgow Life listing)]
* [https://artuk.org/visit/venues/the-burrell-collection-3314 Art UK: Paintings at The Burrell Collection]
* [https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1966/may/11/scotland-burrell-art-collection House of Commons Motion (11 May 1966) re. Burrell Collection. Hansard]
* [http://boppardconservationproject.wordpress.com/ Blog about the Boppard Conservation Project]
* {{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/do-donors-wishes-still-matter-m8fx8xkk5vq|work=[[The Times]]|date=21 June 2013|last=Morrison|first=Richard|title=Do donors' wishes still matter?}}

==Further reading==

* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iqOxAAAAIAAJ&q=Stained+Glass+in+the+Burrell+Collection|title=Stained Glass in the Burrell Collection|first=Linda|last=Cannon|year=1991|publisher=Chambers|isbn=9780550225658}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o1JpPQAACAAJ&q=tapestries+in+the+Burrell+Collection|title=Carpets and Tapestries from the Burrell Collection|year=1969|publisher=Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQabPwAACAAJ|title=The Burrell Collection: Gothic Tapestries : A Selection|year=1985|publisher=Burrell Collection}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SCaaAAAAIAAJ|title=Western Asiatic antiquities: the Burrell Collection| isbn=9780748602247|publisher=Burrell Collection |author=Peltenburg|year=1991}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qfn5OwAACAAJ|title=Paintings from the Burrell Collection|publisher=Arts Council of Great Britain|year=1950}}

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