Bower Building
Bower Building is an university building in Glasgow City, Scotland which is located on University Place. Bower Building is situated nearby to the public building Hetherington House, as well as near the military installation Glasgow and Strathclyde University Officers’ Training Corps.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery.
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Museum
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum owned by Glasgow City Council is a major art gallery and museum in the Yorkhill area of Glasgow, Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is situated 1,400 feet south of Bower Building.
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
Museum
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The Hunterian is a complex of museums located in and operated by the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the oldest museum in Scotland. It covers the Hunterian Museum, the Hunterian Art Gallery, the Mackintosh House, the Zoology Museum and the Anatomy Museum, which are all located in various buildings on the main campus of the university in the west end of Glasgow. Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery is situated 680 feet east of Bower Building.
Glasgow University Library
Library
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Glasgow University Library in the main library of the University of Glasgow. At the turn of the 21st century, the main library building itself held 1,347,000 catalogued print books, and 53,300 journals. Glasgow University Library is situated 600 feet northeast of Bower Building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hillhead and Dowanhill.
Hillhead
Suburb
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Hillhead is an area of Glasgow, Scotland. Situated north of Kelvingrove Park and to the south of the River Kelvin, Hillhead is at the heart of Glasgow's fashionable West End, with Byres Road forming the western border of the area, the other boundaries being Dumbarton Road to the south and the River Kelvin to the east and north.
Dowanhill
Suburb
Dowanhill is an affluent area in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland. An upper middle-class residential district, the area generally contains a mixture of terraced townhouses with private communal gardens, detached villas with private grounds and a number of four-storey tenement buildings.
Bower Building
- Type: University building
- Address: University Place, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
- Categories: building and education
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.87241° or 55° 52′ 21″ northLongitude
-4.29145° or 4° 17′ 29″ westOpen location code
9C7QVPC5+XCOpenStreetMap ID
way 59189245OpenStreetMap feature
building=university
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