This is a new museum, and holds the collection originally on display in the old Transport Museum, which is now the Kelvin Hall Sports Arena, just across the road from the wonderful Kelvin Grove Art Gallery and Museum.
The new building is literally on the bank of the River Clyde. And tied up on the river immediately behind the museum is the so called Tall Ship.
If you have any interest in transport, you will enjoy a visit here. Most of the exhibits are to do with the City of Glasgow. Tramcars and buses. Trains and boats and one old aeroplane....kind of.
Most interesting is the recreated Old Glasgow street scene.
You will find the history of Glasgow's "Clockwork Orange", its Underground railway.
You will find old buses and trains in Glasgow Corporation colours, complete with the Coat of Arms of the city.
There is a fascinating display of large size model boats of many of the famous ships which were built along the Clyde by such yards as John Browns.
You can read of the Daphne disaster, a ship which capsized as she was launched.
You will see a large collection of motor cars from the earliest times up to the sixties and seventies.
There is a poignant short movie on the Lockerbie Disaster, when the Pan Am aircraft was blown up over that small town.
Outside is the tall Ship, the "Glenlee". She was built on the Clyde in 1896, the only Clyde built sailing ship still afloat in the UK. She has a long history, and many names. Glenlee, Islamount, Clarastella and finally Galatea with the Spanish Navy.
You can get boat rides on the Clyde. You might see the "Waverley" pass by, perhaps the last sea going paddle driven steam boat. You might even see the sea plane land as it plies between Glasgow and Oban.
Entry to the Museum is free, as was entry on to Glenlee. There is a restaurant downstairs in the museum and a snack bar upstairs, as well as a museum shop.
You can also eat on board Glenlee.
There is a car park, for which there is a pay machine. The museum is very popular and in high season you might find parking difficult, but it is a stop on the Glasgow Bus Tour.
Well worth a visit for adults and children, but allow yourself 2 or 3 hours to take everything in.
http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/riverside/Pages/default.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Museum
http://thetallship.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenlee_(ship)
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