History of Glasgow Prince’s Dock in Govan. Glasgow was then named European City of Culture in 1990, followed by City of Architecture and Design in 1999 and European Capital of Sport in 2003. Glasgow boasts the largest contemporary arts scene in the UK outside London, which is centred on the annual 'Glasgow International' arts festival. Glasgow was the host city for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and football events for the 2012 Olympic Games were staged in the city. The city's riverbank has been particularly transformed – from industrial dereliction caused by the decline of shipbuilding into an entertainment and residential centrepiece. The banks
EUROPEUM - European Culture Centre new place for the European Art collection which was to be the EUROPEUM. Other notable artworks include Catalan medieval Madonnas, Luca Giordano's "Flight into Egypt", “Man of Sorrows” by Jan Gossaert, "Portrait of a Boy with a Bow and a Dog” by Nicolaes Maes, “Portrait of Antonio Canova” by Antonio d’Este, François-Xavier Fabre’s “Portrait of Michał Bogoria Skotnicki” or Bertel Thorvaldsen’s “Mercury”. EUROPEUM - European Culture Centre The EUROPEUM - European Culture Centre is a division of the Kraków National Museum housing a permanent exhibition of European art. Placed on two floors in a restored 17th century granary, the museum