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Riverside Museum: Scotland's Museum of Transport and Travel
Riverside Museum: Scotland's Museum of Transport and Travel Review
An extraordinary new riverside museum designed by Zaha Hadid celebrates the area's industrial heritage with flair. Its huge metal structure with curving walls echoes the covered yards where ships were built on the Clyde. Glasgow's history of shipbuilding is celebrated in the world-famous collection of Clyde-built ship models. Some of the locomotives built at the nearby St. Rollox yards are also on display. There are cars from every age and many countries suspended on a kind of flying roadway above the main museum. You can wander down Main Street, circa 1930, without leaving the building: the pawnbroker and the Italian café, the subway train and the funeral parlor are frozen in time. Relax with a coffee in the café, wander out onto the expansive riverside walk, or board the tall ship that is moored permanently behind the museum. Bus 100 from George Square brings you here, or you can walk from the Partick subway station in 10 minutes.
- Address: 100 Poundhouse Pl., West End, Glasgow, G3 8RS | Map It
- Phone: 0141/287-2720
- Cost: Free
- Hours: Mon.--Thurs. and Sat. 10--5, Fri. and Sun. 11--5
- Website: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums
- Metro Partick.
- Location: The West End
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